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U.S. President Donald Trump’s pitch to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after permanently displacing its residents was met with unified anger and concern from Palestinians in Gaza Wednesday. Trump raised the prospect of relocating more than two million Palestinians living there during a visit to Washington Tuesday …
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When is a deal really a deal? We tracked prices at Old Navy and Canadian Tire to find out
If you walk into an Old Navy or browse online, you’re bound to find huge discounts offered and hot deals aplenty. But an investigation by CBC’s Marketplace has found some of those bargains are not what they seem. Marketplace tracked the price of items sold at two major retailers — …
Read More »‘Dark day’: Survivors, country mourn victims of Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting
Survivors of Sweden’s worst mass shooting on Wednesday recalled trying to save the lives of their comrades at a school for adults in Örebro, a day after a gunman killed 11 people on what the prime minister called a “dark day” in the country’s history. Police said there was no …
Read More »Watch this N.B. artist create a massive moose in the snow using his footprints
Graphic artist Eric Goggin of Salisbury, near Moncton, spent three hours outside his cottage designing a moose, using only his footprints and some fishing twine. News Source link
Read More »‘There was no murder’: British nurse Lucy Letby wrongly convicted, says Canadian doctor
Canadian doctors are leading a group of international medical experts who believe that Britain’s most prolific child killer of modern times may have been wrongly convicted. Lucy Letby, the former neonatal nurse, was found guilty in two trials, in 2023 and 2024, of murdering seven premature infants and attempting to …
Read More »She feared she’d be homeless after abusive ex was jailed. Here’s how she won her eviction case
WARNING: This story may affect those who’ve experienced gender-based violence or know someone impacted by it. For a couple of months, single mom Chantelle Edgar was afraid she’d be kicked out of her London, Ont., apartment with her two-year-old daughter in tow, joining the tens of thousands of people in Ontario alone who are living on …
Read More »Her brother was killed during the war in Gaza. She promised she would bring him home
In the heart of Khan Younis, surrounded by the relative quiet of the Gaza Strip under a ceasefire, Shireen Talaba removes cinder blocks from around a grave. She stands back as men start to dig, her anxiety palpable. Eventually, she takes a shovel and begins to dig herself. Over the …
Read More »Manitoba Tory leadership candidate jokes about letting polar bears loose to combat homelessness
Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Wally Daudrich joked to a group of party members this week he could reduce homelessness in Winnipeg by letting polar bears loose downtown. One party member who volunteers at a downtown mission that serves homeless people said he is not amused. Daudrich, who operates ecotours to view …
Read More »U.S. to boycott next G20 meeting in South Africa
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend an upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, he said on Wednesday, days after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off funding to the African country. South Africa is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers of the G20 group of countries from …
Read More »Unemployment rate ticked down to 6.6% in January as economy sees solid month of job gains
Canada’s unemployment rate unexpectedly fell and the economy posted another solid month of job gains, Statistics Canada said on Friday, signalling that joblessness has started to ease. In January, the unemployment rate was 6.6 per cent, a notch below the 6.7 per cent seen a month earlier. The economy added 76,000 jobs — still …
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