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The Calgary Stampeders won’t take the Winnipeg Blue Bombers lightly when the two teams play at McMahon Stadium on Saturday night. The Blue Bombers have surprisingly started the season with three straight losses, but Calgary quarterback Jake Maier doesn’t put much stock into Winnipeg’s sluggish start. “As players we have a ton …
Read More »Struggling Winnipeg Sea Bears release league MVP Teddy Allen – Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Sea Bears, off to a 3-5 start to the 2024 Canadian Elite Basketball League season, have parted ways with star guard Teddy Allen. The second-year team announced on Monday morning that Allen has been “released from the organization, effective immediately.” The decision followed a 97-87 loss to the …
Read More »Ontario government hopeful interest rate cut will spur struggling home construction
Ontario housing minister Paul Calandra expressed confidence that the Bank of Canada’s interest rate cut on Wednesday will help spur housing development as the province struggles to realize its goal of constructing 1.5 million homes by 2031. Calandra told reporters he was “very relieved” interest rates had finally been cut …
Read More »Nearly 7M Canadians struggling to put food on the table: report – National
Nearly seven million Canadians are struggling to put food on the table as the cost of living and housing crisis continues to bite, according to a new report. Food Banks Canada released its inaugural poverty report on Tuesday that painted a bleak national picture, with most provinces receiving a grade …
Read More »Manitoba addictions and mental health services struggling to keep up – Winnipeg
Marian Goldstone remembers a time when everything felt hopeless. “I didn’t realize how it was creeping up on me,” the Brandon, Man. resident said. Goldstone was in her late 40s when she started experiencing symptoms of mental illness. For 11 years, Goldstone couldn’t work or participate in day-to-day life with …
Read More »‘It’s tough’: St. Louis City SC hands struggling Toronto FC fifth straight loss – Toronto
TORONTO — Terry Dunfield strode onto the field after another disappointing result. Toronto FC’s interim head coach had just watched his severely undermanned squad give everything it had against one of Major League Soccer’s best. He then pivoted to ask his opposite a question as players shook hands. Bradley Carnell, …
Read More »Ottawa food banks struggling to keep up with demand amid funding crunch – Ottawa
An Ottawa community organization says it is struggling to meet demand for its food program, and will need to cut back its services if it can’t secure more funding. With COVID-19 supports drying up and food prices skyrocketing, the Caldwell Family Centre is just one group pleading for more support …
Read More »Mother of 2 living in downtown Toronto on rising inflation: ‘I’m struggling a lot’
Over the next six weeks, as part of the ‘Out of Pocket’ series, Global News will examine how inflation is impacting Canadians from coast to coast. A Toronto mother says she left everything when she decided to move back to Canada from China with her two children. The family had …
Read More »Canadian cannabis industry struggling amid oversupply challenges: Experts – Winnipeg
More than four years later, Canada’s cannabis industry is starting to come down from a post-legalization high, experts say. “Producers have been scaling back, laying people off, closing facilities for really over three years,” said Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. …
Read More »Calgary condo owners struggling with rising condo fees — experts say this is what’s causing it
Carole Benner doesn’t rent. She owns. But the senior is still finding factors outside of her control are hiking up costs and threatening to drive her from the home she loves. Why? Condo fees. Calgary’s tight rental market has people sleeping in SUVs and searching for new places when their …
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