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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Brianna Shereck was at odds between getting ahead in her career and caring for her two pre-school aged children.  “If you’ve ever had kids in daycare, you’re familiar that they get sick all of the time,” said Shereck. In 2019, she took five weeks away from …

With less than a week remaining until voters across B.C. go to the polls to elect their mayors and councils, eyebrow-raising promises by candidates are making the rounds. Bringing the NBA back to Vancouver. Creating a “Vancouver loop” SkyTrain going from UBC to Metrotown. Building a 60,000-person “multi-sport” arena. Experts …

This is an excerpt from Minority Report, a weekly newsletter on federal politics. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Just over two years after the House of Commons began regularly sitting in a formal hybrid format, MPs are once again debating whether that model — which …

Wayne Hubbard is a fixture at Exhibition Park Raceway in Saint John. He started going there as a youngster, “got hooked” on harness racing, and has been going there ever since. “If you can’t find me at home, find me here. It’s just my second home.” He’s just come off the track …

The sound of apparent gunshots and explosions echoed early Monday through the streets of a western Iranian city, one of the hot spots of protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman. At least one man reportedly was killed by security forces in a village nearby, activists said. The incidents …

Arthur Plasschaert has been racing pigeons as a hobby since he was a 13-year-old in the Netherlands. A retired real estate agent, he’s spent the last five decades raising and racing the birds about 140 kilometres east of Toronto, in Brighton, Ont.  Now, he says his pigeons have been taken away and he’s …

When a deportation order was issued to Halima Abdi three months ago, the Edmonton woman went into hiding — living apart from her husband and three Canadian-born children — in hopes of avoiding a more drastic separation.    Sali Mohamed, another Edmonton mother, is familiar with the heartbreaking situation Abdi is going …

ਜਗਮੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਘਨੌਲੀ, 10 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ ਅੰਬੂਜਾ ਸੀਮਿੰਟ ਲਿਮ. ਕੰਪਨੀ ਦੇ ਮਾਲਕ ਗੌਤਮ ਅਡਾਨੀ ਦੇ ਬੇਟੇ ਕਰਨ ਅਡਾਨੀ ਅੱਜ ਰੂਪਨਗਰ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹੇ ਦੇ ਪਿੰਡ ਦਬੁਰਜੀ ‘ਚ ਸਥਿਤ ਸੀਮਿੰਟ ਫੈਕਟਰੀ ਦੇਖਣ ਲਈ ਆ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਦੌਰੇ ਨੂੰ ਦੇਖਦਿਆਂ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਦੇ ਸਖਤ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ। ਉੱਧਰ ਅਪਰੈਲ ਮਹੀਨੇ ਤੋਂ …

ਸਟਾਕਹੋਮ, 10 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ ਇਸ ਸਾਲ ਅਰਥਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ ਲਈ ਨੋਬੇਲ ਪੁਰਸਕਾਰ ਨਾਲ ਸਨਮਾਨਿਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਤਿੰਨ ਅਮਰੀਕੀ ਅਰਥਸ਼ਾਸਤਰੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਚੋਣ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਹੈ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ‘ਬੈਂਕਾਂ ਤੇ ਵਿੱਤੀ ਸੰਕਟ ਬਾਰੇ ਖੋਜ’ ਲਈ ਇਹ ਪੁਰਸਕਾਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਸਟਾਕਹੋਮ ‘ਚ ਰੌਇਲ ਸਵੀਡਿਸ਼ ਅਕੈਡਮੀ ਆਫ ਸਾਇੰਸਿਜ਼ ‘ਚ ਨੋਬੇਲ ਕਮੇਟੀ ਨੇ ਅੱਜ ਬੇਨ ਐੱਸ ਬਰਨਾਂਕੇ, …