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Posthaste: Canada’s troubled housing market just got hit with another headwind
Canada’s beleaguered housing market just can’t catch a break. Over the past few years it has struggled under rising interest rates , trade turmoil and economic uncertainty. Now the Iran war has added another headwind: soaring oil prices. What does the price of crude have to do with real estate? Stephen Brown, deputy chief economist…
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Ontario mandated e-learning to expand course options. Some worry it’s being used to boost marks
Six years after the Ontario government made e-learning a mandatory requirement for a high school diploma, students don’t appear to be taking online school to diversify their course selection as the province had intended, according to a CBC News analysis of provincial enrolment data.
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First Nation medical transportation program in Thunder Bay, Ont., axed over lack of funding
The Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA) has announced it is suspending its medical transportation program in Thunder Bay, Ont., due to a lack of funding from Indigenous Services Canada and the Non-Insured Health Benefits program. Here’s what the change means for people who rely on the service and the more than 20 staff…
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2,000 happily ever afters: Ontario woman attempts to sell huge collection of Harlequin paperbacks
Book collector Krystin Golden of Windsor says the Harlequin Intrigue line of novels isn’t just about romance, and that’s why she has spent decades accumulating titles. But now she’d like to sell all 2,000 of them as a single lot.
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N.S. bill aims to extend support for youth in foster care who age out of the system
A bill before the Nova Scotia Legislature is proposing a change to the age when young people in the foster care or group home system can get provincial support, raising it from 19 to 26.
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‘A messy day ahead’ as another winter storm keeps some Newfoundland schools closed
Much of Newfoundland is waking up to blustery and messy morning that has shuttered schools as another storm slams into the island.
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Some U.S. car buyers envy what they cannot have — affordable Chinese EVs
Survey shows 40 per cent of U.S. consumers support Chinese auto imports, while political opposition in U.S. remains strong
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What’s on our radar for March 24
A look at Detroit River cleanup efforts, a Windsor woman wants to clear out her massive romance novel collection and there’s a special council meeting in Sarnia about comments by a councillor that have prompted quite the community response.
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Sarnia council to meet over remarks made by city councillor opposed to Indigenous mural
Sarnia City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday morning to respond to social media comments made by Coun. Bill Dennis, who criticized city spending on a new mural by Indigenous artist Kennady Osborne as “virtue signalling by woke politicians,” then made a series of comments in response to a reply from Aamjiwnaang Chief Janelle…
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How the country ignored a terrorist mass murder: Canada Did What? podcast
Where can you slaughter hundreds of people and get away with it? Only in Canada, where authorities bungled the chance to stop an obvious plot to bomb Air India Flight 182 and then failed to bring a single one of the brazen terrorists to justice. It was the most preventable horror in our history, and…