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An Israeli airstrike destroyed a three-storey home in Gaza City on Saturday, killing 10 people — half of them children — as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials. The dead in the early-morning …
Read More »B.C. city buys health clinic to help community retain and recruit new doctors
The Cure is a CBC News series examining strategies provinces and territories are using to tackle the primary care crisis. A group of doctors in British Columbia’s northeast, with the help of city council, has saved a clinic from closure — and now has its sights set on bringing team-based care to a …
Read More »As Palestinians look for shelter, some pitch their tents next to landfill in Gaza City
Palestinians in Gaza say they have nowhere to go as Israel’s renewed offensive forces thousands to leave their homes and once again face displacement in the war-ravaged territory. Some Palestinians pitched their tents next to mounds of garbage at a landfill near the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City after being ordered …
Read More »How a century-old Montreal invention changed snow removal in the city
The challenge facing Montreal snow-removal crews this week is without precedent: two big storms back to back have left more than 70 centimetres of snow to clear. It’s the most in a four-day period on record, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. A city official marvelled recently that the …
Read More »Why your city is still waiting on e-buses — and how tariffs could make things worse
Electric bus manufacturers hit hard by pandemic-era supply chain chaos could soon find themselves pummelled by a trade war. “The immediate effect of the [U.S. President] Donald Trump tariffs is buses become more expensive overnight,” said Josipa Petrunic, the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium …
Read More »New York City just introduced congestion pricing. Why some experts say it could work here
TransLink is facing a $600 million operating deficit by 2026, but transit experts say the shortfall could be offset by introducing congestion pricing in Metro Vancouver — an effort currently underway in New York City that’s showing some promising results. Congestion pricing, or mobility pricing, is a policy aimed at reducing traffic and …
Read More »As gridlock grinds Toronto to a halt, here’s what the city could learn from Seattle’s traffic cameras
“I’ve seen it where it’s four light cycles and not one car moves an inch.” Sound familiar, Toronto? As it happens, Officer Eric Daylong isn’t describing traffic in Canada’s largest city. Instead, he’s talking about how blocking an intersection can impact congestion in Seattle, where he works for the police department’s …
Read More »UN describes ‘mass panic’ in Goma as Rwanda-backed rebels claim control of key Congo city
Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its two million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.” The M23 rebels announced the city’s capture in a statement minutes before a …
Read More »New York City has just implemented congestion pricing on cars. Is a big city in Canada next?
New York City, a bustling metropolis with eight million people all trying to get somewhere, has now put a price on cars entering part of Manhattan. It is the first of its kind in North America. The charge, called congestion pricing, is aimed at reducing traffic and pollution. The city also …
Read More »‘Steve is the guy to call’: Anglo patients in Quebec City rely on 1 man to help navigate health system
Steve Guimond may not have grown up in Quebec City, but 10 years after his move from Montreal, he knows his routes around the city much like a local taxi driver. Cranking up the heat in the car he uses as his office on a late November morning, Guimond rolls …
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