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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The leaders from Ontario’s four main political parties will be part of an election debate airing on the evening of Family Day through a partnership of the province’s biggest broadcasters, including Global News. The debate will air on Feb. 17 at 6:30 …
Read More »People debate if AI art is real. Here’s how it’s changed my life
This First Person column is the experience of Lucas Orfanides, who lives in Sackville, N.B. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. In Grade 7, the week before Family Day, we were assigned an art project in class to make a painting on a dinner …
Read More »Ontario plans for tougher encampment rules stir emotional debate, including among Thunder Bay shelter users
Although she’s had no permanent home for two years, Bunny Chief says she often gives up her space at the overnight shelter so others have a warm place to sleep. “I try to make room for everybody else because I do have a little heater in my tent,” she said. But …
Read More »Clocks turn back in Ontario on Sunday, as debate over time continues
Ontarians will see their clocks turn back by an hour this Sunday, as they switch back to standard time until the spring — a change that seems to spark the same debate every November. The annual time switch has been questioned for years now, with many wanting to stick with daylight or standard …
Read More »Economic hope or human rights headache? Italy’s migrant camp in Albania sparks debate
The cement floors are painted green because the colour is soothing, an Italian official explains, as he ushers a small group of journalists, including from CBC News, around the first extraterritorial migrant camp in Albania. The bleak steel and concrete structure, erected in a defunct airbase on rocky terrain near …
Read More »Trumpism, post-Trump: VP debate offers flashes of potential U.S. future
American politics, beyond Donald Trump. For nearly 90 minutes, viewers were granted a potential glimpse of it in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate. And it’s not just the gracious banter and arm-slapping post-debate bonhommie between Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, whose genteel exchanges were like a throwback to a bygone …
Read More »What time is the U.S. vice-presidential debate? How to watch J.D. Vance and Tim Walz face off
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance are set to appear in their first and only televised debate in the 2024 election campaign. Walz is the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee and sitting Vice-President Kamala Harris; Vance is the Republican candidate for vice-president, running with former president Donald Trump. …
Read More »Pickleball or housing? Debate in this Ontario city shows dilemma municipalities face
A Peterborough councillor recently surprised some of his fellow council members when he proposed an unexpected solution in a search for answers to his city’s housing crisis. Keith Riel proposed that the city put off six infrastructure projects ranging from pickleball courts to road improvements, which would have potentially freed …
Read More »Nanaimo arrest of repeat offender reignites city’s crime debate – BC
Two years ago, Aiden Tye threw a brick at a pregnant woman in downtown Nanaimo, B.C. On Friday, he was arrested in the same location, this time over a string of aggressive outbursts at local businesses. “There was this guy … throwing my patio chairs,” Serious Coffee owner Joseph Lee …
Read More »From Liberals losing key riding to Biden-Trump debate, this week’s top stories – National
U.S. President Joe Biden and his challenger, the former president Donald Trump, faced off in a debate, the Liberal Party lost a key byelection battle with the Conservatives and Ottawa is mulling tariffs on electric vehicles made in China. Here are some of the top stories this week. Biden, Trump …
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