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  This is part three of a four-part series examining how automation will change Canadians’ lives, for better or worse. Homebuilders and policymakers have been grappling for years with a problem that comes, fundamentally, down to arithmetic: the number of homes Canada must build keeps growing, and the number of …

Almost 20 years after taking the province to court, attempting to embarrass a former premier and pushing to change local zoning rules, a prominent Ontario developer may now finally be set to cash in on his multi-million dollar gamble involving the Greenbelt. In 2003, Silvio De Gasperis of the Tacc Group of companies started …

Residents moving into the once-vacant Neoma building in downtown Calgary are receiving a special house warming gift — art, donated by local artists, to hang on the wall and to keep when they move on. It’s part of a project called Art is the Heart of a Home, an initiative that aims to …

Alberta care homes are once again battling a growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks. According to the province, 160 new COVID outbreaks have been declared in long-term care and supportive living facilities across the province since Sept. 1. 72 residents have been hospitalized and 33 have died. “It can be quite trying,” said …

On the night post-tropical storm Fiona hit Nova Scotia, Dana Boutilier woke up at home to water dripping on her face from the ceiling above. She quickly realized something was very wrong. She jumped out of bed to find herself ankle deep in water. “As I proceeded to leave the room to go …

More than 3,700 homes in Nova Scotia aren’t available to families seeking permanent housing because they are listed as short-term vacation rentals, according to research by a Halifax community group. Neighbours Speak Up compiled data from the Government of Nova Scotia’s short-term accommodations registry — as well as short-term rental …

Maritime Electric, P.E.I.’s main electrical utility, continued the hard slog of restoring mostly individual power outages on Tuesday, returning power to about 600 customers 19 days after Fiona knocked it out. Immediately following the post-tropical storm on Sept. 24 electricity was out for the whole province. With the work done …

Residents of B.C. long-term care homes are some of the most likely in the country to be given antipsychotic medications without a diagnosis of psychosis, national data shows, and experts say the discrepancy can’t be explained away as a consequence of COVID-19. Data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information …

Advocates are gearing up for legal battles against Ontario’s plan to move elderly and chronically ill patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes, with lawyers warning the proposed change is a breach of patients’ human rights. Under legislation unveiled last week, hospital patients who are deemed to no longer require …

Ontario is unlikely to meet its lofty goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031 to alleviate the housing crisis, according to a new report from the Smart Prosperity Institute, an Ottawa-based think-tank. There are so many bottlenecks that we need to address in the next five to 10 years.– …