Tag Archives: Struggle

For more than two decades, the Surrey Christmas Bureau has been providing toys and raising smiles for underprivileged children — but this year, they’re in need of a Christmas miracle themselves. Every year, the bureau looks for a donated space in the city where it can set up a toy distribution centre. But …

Despite a provincial grant program to recruit new truck drivers, Alberta’s trucking industry is still struggling to fill thousands of vacant driver roles — and it’s in part due to challenges with insurance. Harjeet Singh, owner of Alberta Truck Training and Driver Education, says he thinks the driver shortage is …

Officials in New York and Washington, D.C. are struggling to cope with an influx of migrants that have been specifically bused to their cities on orders from the Republican leaders of Texas and Arizona. More than 7,000 migrants have been bused from Texas to the U.S. capital since April, part of …

Paramedics Colin Waterhouse and Josh Picknell are in their ambulance in Ottawa on a Friday afternoon when the call comes in: A Code 4, which means they need to get there fast.  With lights flashing and sirens blaring, they race to the call’s address and assess the patient; he needs …

WARNING: This article contains details of sexual extortion and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone affected by it. After a long and complicated nine-week trial, Carol Todd’s long wait for justice for her daughter, Amanda, is over. Dutch national Aydin Coban was convicted of extortion, child …

Calgary restaurant owners say they are being forced to hike up their menu prices and cut staff hours due to rising food and material costs. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the cost of living has soared for millions across the globe — and Calgary’s food service industry is …

Crews battling the largest wildfire so far this year in California braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth Sunday as they sought to protect remote communities. The McKinney Fire was burning out of control in Northern California’s Klamath National Forest, with expected …

Marissa Andersson and Oksana Kravchuk both own properties on the same Toronto street but didn’t know one another until they say they discovered a troubling connection.  Their tenants, who told the landlords they were in a relationship, built extra bedrooms in their homes without their knowledge, leased them out to …

There is a growing number of animals looking to find new homes in Toronto as owners who bought pandemic pets at the height of COVID-19 return to work — or struggle with the rising cost of looking after them, city officials warn.  According to Toronto Animal Services, a city-run agency, there has been a 63 …

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 …