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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Jackson Pollock artwork highlighting the artist’s famed painted swoops, swirls, pours and drizzles soared to …

Sidheshwar Shirsath, who lives in the suburbs of India’s financial capital, Mumbai, first started buying gold when he got married nine years ago. Shirsath, 35, works as a driver and earns about 55,000 rupees ($889 Cdn) a month. He decided that gold might be a good way to build a …

Some of the most affordable rental housing in Nova Scotia is rapidly becoming less so, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data analyzed by CBC News. This is especially pronounced in Halifax where, according to the data, the median rent for apartments built in 1979 or earlier has increased …

Canadian school food program operators are seeing the highest demand ever as children prepare to go back to school. They say it points to the urgent need for a national school food policy. The Breakfast Club of Canada and The Coalition for Healthy School Food say the growing demand for …

Several Calgary-based tech companies are planning to hire more people and expand their office space as hundreds of millions of dollars flow into the sector. Through the first half of the year, Alberta has attracted nearly $500 million in investment, according to briefed.in. “We’re growing very, very quickly,” said Nic Beique, …

Canada could face a summer of strikes and other labour disruptions as workers demand cost-of-living increases and better conditions than those seen throughout the past two years of the pandemic, say union officials and other observers.  Hundreds of thousands of health and education workers are among those whose unions and employers …