News/Canada (Page 29)

Canada Tens of thousands of Canadians worried about skin cancer face long waits for appointments and treatment due to what experts say is a shortage of dermatologists. Melanoma Canada is aiming to reduce those waits with what they call Mole Mobiles — skin cancer screening clinics on wheels that areContinue Reading

Canada A geomagnetic storm brought colourful auroras overnight in southern Canada, the northern United States and parts of Europe. It could also cause some disruptions to communications over the weekend. Geomagnetic storm offers a chance to see colourful auroras, but authorities are taking precautionsBenjamin Shingler · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Canada Rex Murphy, the controversial Newfoundland-born pundit and wordsmith whose writing and often-blistering commentaries were the focus of a decades-long career in Canadian media, has died at the age of 77, according to the National Post. Murphy wrote for newspapers, also appeared on radio and TV during decades-long media careerCBCContinue Reading

Canada·CBC Investigates Waterloo Regional Police have charged David Villanueva with fraud, after a 14-month investigation. The veteran conman has six prior convictions, and has left a cross-Canada trail of victims. David Villanueva accused of bilking dozens of investors out of at least $1.4 million David Villanueva is a businessman inContinue Reading

The tenant in Nazar Ajeely’s one-bedroom unit stopped paying rent, refused to take his calls and gave no explanation.  The tenant also refused to leave the apartment in Windsor, Ont., Ajeely said, giving him no choice but to go to the province’s Landlord and Tenant Board to seek an evictionContinue Reading

Across Canada, communities are trying out single-use plastic bans, fees and other policies to reduce plastic pollution.  Global plastic consumption has quadrupled in the past 30 years, and only nine per cent is being recycled, the OECD reports. That’s the case even in Canada. The rest is landfilled, littered orContinue Reading

Taylor Swift fan says Booking.com cancelled her room, relisted at higher price | Go PublicA Taylor Swift fan who had secured accommodations in Toronto for the star’s November concert tells CBC’s Go Public that Booking.com abruptly cancelled the reservations, only offering alternatives that were up to eight times more expensive.Continue Reading

Two months ago, I shared the strange story of a man who tried to lure me into a romance scam on Instagram — claiming to be a wealthy oil rig engineer from California, currently working off the coast of Scotland. “Bobby Brown” told me he was the divorced father ofContinue Reading

Manitoba Models in uniquely designed red dresses are taking to the runway in British Columbia this weekend to make a powerful fashion statement about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. Red Dress Day held annually on May 5, inspired by Métis Jamie Black artist, who’s based inContinue Reading