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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 15, 2024 9:49 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in February climbed 14 per cent compared with January. The national housing agency says the seasonally …

A new health care-related training centre opened in Neepawa, Man., Monday afternoon, in an effort to address rural staffing shortages. Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will offer a two-year practical nursing program as the first program hosted by the facility, which used to be an RCMP detachment, adding 25 new seats. …

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 19, 2023 6:05 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Advance voting is set to start today in provincial byelections in Kanata-Carleton and Scarborough-Guildwood. Eligible voters in those two ridings can cast a ballot at advance voting locations from …

Google sent layoff notices on Monday to affected Canadian employees after its parent company Alphabet announced earlier this year it was cutting 12,000 of its global workforce. Google Canada spokesperson Lauren Skelly said notifications had been sent to staff impacted by the cuts announced last month. It wasn’t immediately clear …

Growing up in Oshawa, Ont., professional hockey player Saroya Tinker was often the only Black player on the ice. “I was always a little bit of an outsider in hockey in regards to the comments I would receive and experiencing racism in the game,” said the 24-year-old defender for the …

More than 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency workers will soon vote on whether to go on strike this tax season after being without a contract for more than a year, their union says. The Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Union of Taxation Employees (PSAC-UTE) will launch strike votes later …

After his parents desperately raised $3 million over three years trying to find a cure for their son’s rare genetic disease, Michael Pirovolakis is one step closer to possible recovery. Michael, 4, is the only child in Canada diagnosed with spastic paraplegia 50 (SPG50), a slowly progressing neurodegenerative disorder that generally …

One high school girl’s dream grew into the first all-female cricket team in Manitoba, thanks to a group of like-minded teenagers from Brandon. Mahee Patel grew up playing the sport with her family and decided to try and recruit girls at the Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School where she’s a student.  Patel says …

Canada has begun supplying the world with minerals critical to a greener economy with the country’s first rare earth mine delivering concentrated ore. “Canada and its allies are gaining independence from the rare earth supply chain from China,” said David Connelly of Cheetah Resources, which owns the Nechalacho Mine southeast …

New Delhi: In what might be termed as a ‘miraculous recovery’, a 55-year-old bedridden man started to walk and speak after being administered the first shot of Covishield vaccine in Jharkhand on Thursday, said doctors. According to the doctors as quoted by news agency PTI, Dularchand Munda, a resident of …