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Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its housing market forecast following a jump in fixed mortgage rates and weaker than expected housing sales in the first three months of 2026. CREA had been forecasting higher sales, based on the idea that pent-up demand would emerge, especially from first-time buyers.

While war in the Middle East stretches past the six-week mark and fuel prices have more than doubled, costs are starting to be passed onto consumers. One industry seeing the swift impacts of this is about to hit peak season: air travel.

A veteran military police officer is suing Ottawa and SIG Sauer after a holstered C-22 allegedly discharged without a trigger pull, ending his career. The case undercuts defence claims of a clean rollout and reopens scrutiny of a pistol platform tied to hundreds of disputed U.S. incidents and prior warnings.

U.S. court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns. A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec.

Diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler, 26-year-old Ahmed Al-Mahamid of LaSalle can accurately identify the day of the week when given any random date since 1900. His parents say he’s been having an unusually social month of April, which is Austim Acceptance Month.

Some tenants of an affordable housing provider in Essex say they were blindsided and are terrified by news that their landlord plans to sell 53 of the 121 units it owns.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Work teams around the world have seen their numbers dwindle, thanks to economic uncertainty , political volatility, and the adoption of AI, leading to layoffs and unfilled vacancies. As a result, a former team of eight might now be down to just four or five, and if a couple of them dare…

An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week. In a statement, Imperial Oil apologized for the spill, which has been stopped and contained.

An RCMP officer’s decision to shoot at an American citizen who fled a border security screening and drove into Canada illegally in February of last year has been deemed a reasonable and appropriate use of force by the province’s serious incident response team. The American did not die from being shot at by the officer.…

Manufacturing sales rebounded in February from their January lows, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. Total manufacturing sales were up 3.1 per cent compared to a 3.1 per cent decline in January. Transportation equipment sales led the rise. Motor vehicle sales rose 43.4 per cent and motor vehicle parts sales rose 9.9 per…