As rents continued to surge across Ontario during the past year, availability for people trying to make a home in a given city got a lot tighter, according to Canada’s housing agency. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s (CMHC) latest annual rental market report, which surveys property managers on key statistics …
Read More »Ontario warns parents to avoid centre where police say man convicted of trafficking children lives
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the government statement was sent by Ontario’s Solicitor General’s office. The provincial government is warning parents to avoid an Ontario centre offering services to children with autism after police said a man previously convicted of trafficking children is living at the …
Read More »‘Remembering Lives Lost’: Dauphin, Man. unites in vigil honouring tragic bus crash victims
It was a sombre evening in Dauphin, Man., as the community gathered together at the Ukrainian Orthodox Hall for a vigil in memory of everyone who was lost during the tragic bus crash near Carberry. An estimated 300 people were in attendance including members of the Manitoba RCMP, first responders, …
Read More »Families speak out after explosion at oil and gas site claims two lives
Two families say they are still in shock after losing loved ones from an explosion at an oil and gas site on Nov. 12. Greg Podulsky, 29, and Darcy Schwindt, 47, were killed after a blast at the Marten Hills site, northeast of Slave Lake, about 250 kilometres north of Edmonton. The …
Read More »Black Lives Matter YYC celebrates Emancipation Day, but says fight for freedom is not over
Black Lives Matter YYC hosted its second annual Emancipation Day Picnic Saturday at Calgary’s Lougheed House, but one organizer says the fight for freedom is not over yet. Adora Nwofor, president of BLM YYC, says while many Albertans may celebrate Aug. 1 as Heritage Day, Emancipation Day should be more …
Read More »They came to Toronto as a young immigrant couple. A crash has now forever changed their lives
On the inside of Carlos Bastarrachea’s right forearm is a tattoo of an airplane circling a globe with the date Dec. 6, 2020, the date when he and his wife Emilia Ballester arrived to start their new life in Toronto. She has the same one, meant to look like a passport stamp. “We …
Read More »Delay in public vaccination putting lives at risk, says Maharashtra Covid adviser, Health News, ET HealthWorld
A key member of the Maharashtra government’s Covid task force has accused the Union health ministry of delaying the vaccine rollout among the general public and “putting the lives of people at risk”. The remark comes as the state reported a fresh breakout of cases amid fears of a mutant …
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