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This week, FP Video looks at why the Bank of Canada is in no hurry to save the real estate market, and how high oil prices are impacting the Canadian dollar. Video correspondent Daniel Trainer goes behind the scenes at the Global Energy Show in Calgary and explains how Prairie-grown canola seeds are turned into…

Fertility Inc. is a multi-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry, its aggressive marketing, the high cost and the chances of an eventual successful pregnancy. Megan Robinson, 37, isn’t sure if she wants to have children, but if she does become a mother she hopes…

Nearly 500,000 Canadian addresses will lose home delivery as Canada Post forges ahead with conversions to community mailboxes. In an announcement made on Thursday , the crown corporation said it “is moving forward with community mailbox conversions as part of its broader transformation to modernize the postal service and return to financial self-sustainability.” In the…

It would be premature to grant a conditional discharge to an Ontario man who terrorized the grandparents of one of two Indiana girls murdered in 2017 by calling them more than 30 times to say the dead girls had been seen in Canada a year after the killings and that their deaths were a hoax,…

At the height of protests in Iran this January, Mona Ghassani, the president of the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC), was invited to speak on CBC. Amid news reports estimating government forces had killed upwards of 20,000 civilians, Ghassani told host David Cochrane that the events unfolding in Iran did not “exist within a vacuum.” Ghassani…

OTTAWA — Eleanor Olszewski jokes that, like most good Albertans, she originally comes from Saskatchewan. Born in Swift Current, Sask., Olszewski called the small city home for only a couple of years. Her family moved to Medicine Hat, Alta. where she was raised, before leaving for Edmonton to attend university, achieving degrees first in pharmacy…

Australia’s richest woman wants to mine coal in the Rocky Mountains and one of Canada’s most famous country music singers has built a coalition of ranchers, fishermen and environmentalists to stop the project. A unit of billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd. is seeking government permission to reopen the Grassy Mountain mine in Alberta…

Mattress maker Sleep Number Corp. filed bankruptcy with an agreement to sell the firm to one-time retail partner Sleep Country Canada Inc. after years of weak demand, mounting financial pressure and unpredictable tariffs . Sleep Number blamed its bankruptcy, in part, on “the unpredictable shifting of trade rules imposed by the current U.S. government on…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to deepen defence and industrial cooperation and ease exchanges of classified information , as Canada seeks to strengthen ties with Europe amid volatile United States trade policy . Speaking before talks in Paris, Carney said the countries signed an agreement to share classified information…

OTTAWA – On a visit to Paris, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he believes the notion is catching on for middle powers to unite against “hegemons,” as he laid out in his attention-grabbing speech in Davos, Switzerland , earlier this year. “It is gaining real traction,” said Carney during a press conference in the French…