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Finding school too overwhelming, 17-year-old Lily Boucher Rodriguez stopped going altogether after almost two years of intermittent attendance. “I was skipping [classes] in the bathroom because I was really anxious about everything and about people,” she says. “School in general is a lot when you’re different. It’s hard because you …
Read More »F-35 program facing skyrocketing costs, pilot shortage and infrastructure deficit: AG report
Canada’s plan to buy 88 U.S.-built F-35 fighter jets is facing significant challenges, including skyrocketing costs, a shortage of trained pilots and a lack of critical infrastructure, according to a new report from Auditor General Karen Hogan. The audit for the F-35 program is part of Hogan’s spring audits, released Tuesday, which …
Read More »N.L. spent nearly entire $22M contingency fund on ‘skyrocketing’ costs of kids in care
Finance Minister Siobhan Coady says there was only one transfer from a $22-million contingency fund set up to cover “unforeseen expenditures” by the Newfoundland and Labrador government in the last fiscal year. Nearly all of that cash — $21 million of the $22 million available — was transferred to again address …
Read More »Toronto needs a ‘plate of spaghetti’ transit system but costs are skyrocketing: report
The cost of expanding Toronto’s aging transit system has skyrocketed in recent decades, according to a new report, with the price per kilometre of new subway and light rail track ballooning. A new report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade found the current cost of new transit in the …
Read More »‘Definitely dissuasive’: Skyrocketing farmland prices a struggle for young farmers
REGINA — Will Robbins has been in the process of taking over his family farm southwest of Saskatoon. The 43-year-old grows organic wheat, oats, lentils, peas and occasionally flax and mustard on 445 hectares of land near Laura, Sask. In 1996, when he was still a teenager, prices in west-central …
Read More »Ontario First Nation declares state of emergency amid skyrocketing benzene levels
Aamjiwnaang First Nation, near Sarnia, Ont., has declared a state of emergency after a significant spike in the cancer-causing substance benzene was detected as a chemical plant began to shut down. Hourly benzene readings as high as 191.3 ug/m3 were detected at noon on April 25, by a real-time air …
Read More »‘A tsunami of cost increases’: Nova Scotia farmers struggle with skyrocketing inflation
As Tim Marsh looks over the fields in front of his farmhouse in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, he worries about what the future holds for his industry. Marsh said input costs in the last six months have been unprecedented, with agricultural necessities like diesel, fertilizer, and herbicides costing exponentially more than …
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