By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 20, 2023 11:25 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for Le Fromage au Village and La Vache a Maillotte brand soft and semi-soft surface-ripened cheese due to possible Listeria contamination. The …

OTTAWA — Cole Etherington was not always a green thumb. In fact, he said his first year of gardening was plain horrible: his crops didn’t grow, the soil wasn’t right and everything that could go wrong, did. “It just absolutely sucked,” said Etherington. But that failure only pushed him to …

No injuries are being reported after several semi-trucks went up in flames in a fire that sent a plume of black smoke over the city Friday morning. The Rosser Fire Department responded to the parking lot of a trucking company on Goldenrod Drive off Brookside Boulevard around 8:30 a.m. Officials …

Drug poisoning deaths in Alberta have once again surpassed the 1,300 mark for a third year in a row. Data updated this month from the Alberta substance use surveillance system show there were 1,443 drug poisoning deaths in the province from January to November 2022, 1,347 of which were caused …

Ontario is expanding a grant that sees the province pay for tuition for students who enrol in some health-care programs. The province’s Learn and Stay grant, first announced back in March 2022, will now cover tuition and other costs for paramedic and medical laboratory technologist programs in return for individuals …

Call it a case of the flipped flights. Phil and Marsha Rehel thought they were going one way, but the Air Canada booking they made was in the opposite direction of what they wanted. “We only have Air Canada in Sudbury so we decided to book Air Canada from Sudbury …

A Winnipeg high school’s recent handling of indoor vaping is raising concerns over how administrators can and should curb vaping in youth. St. James Collegiate navigated backlash over a door it removed on one of the girls’ bathrooms. Parents and students voiced privacy concerns after discovering the door was gone …

In a move condemned by Vancouver’s two Green councillors and single OneCity councillor, the reigning ABC party has voted to close down the city’s ‘Renter Office’ during a housing affordability crisis, citing concerns over its efficiency. While it had no physical presence, the Renter Office had worked to advise tenants …

Rent prices are through the roof across Canada as decades-high inflation has increased the cost of living in the country. The national average rent last month was $2,005 – an increase of more than 12 per cent compared with December 2021, according to Rentals.ca’s January 2023 Rent Report. Vancouver remains …

In March 2022, the first school term back following pandemic-related closures, Ruth Panofsky, an English professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, said she was approached by a graduate student who disclosed she had been sexually assaulted on campus. “She was absolutely breathless, fearful and terrorized,” she said. “I had never experienced …