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As the 2025 tax season approaches, Bill Bisson is stuck in tax limbo, still waiting for the Canada Revenue Agency to resolve a $3,471 penalty stemming from his 2023 return — a charge he and his tax adviser say is an obvious CRA error.  “It’s frustrating, it has created a …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 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. Four years after a 24-year-old Indigenous woman died in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital, her family …

Parfait Karekezi usually leaves his phone on silent whenever he goes to bed at night, but on the evening of Nov. 9, he decided to leave the ringer on. He got a call at around 1 a.m. informing him his brother, Erixon Kabera, had died. “Everything went on hold … I was …

Many that have needed to take their car into a shop for repairs, know it hasn’t been easy lately. Stephanie Clark with InterCity Autobody says they used to help clients within a week or two — but that’s changed this year, she said. “We’re seeing a lot more claims and …

The Pirie family says they are well-seasoned when it comes to emergency room visits for their two-year-old son Cohen. He was born premature, delivered at 27 weeks gestation and has been diagnosed with chronic lung disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and asthma, which make him prone to respiratory illness. “Every time Cohen …

Anna Zaitseva and her husband Kirilo had only a few stolen moments together last winter in a deep, dark underground shelter. Those fleeting, poignant reunions were over before they started. They happened amid the cacophony of shelling and earth-shaking airstrikes as the Russian military’s noose tightened around their hometown, the southern Ukrainian port city of …

The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported this weekend that one of Gazprom’s turbines — the one that recently became a geopolitical football — landed in Germany on July 17 and was now on its way back to Russia. But Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Wednesday that the Montreal workshop which refurbished the Nord Stream …

If you’ve spent hours waiting to see a doctor in an Ontario emergency room, or days in the ER waiting to get admitted to hospital, you likely didn’t see the real factors driving those delays.  That’s because the record-high wait times in emergency departments in this province are in large part …

Dylan Harris of St. John’s is crediting a virtual emergency room with saving his life after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Martin Jones/CBC) After waiting hours in an emergency room without finding an explanation for his condition, a St. John’s man is thanking a virtual clinic for saving his …

Federal public servants say they’re frustrated and have lost faith in the compensation process set up to acknowledge their severe financial and personal hardships due to the government’s troubled pay system. Some employees say they’re still affected by the Phoenix pay system, introduced more than six years ago, which has overpaid, underpaid and …