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Canadians across the country are experiencing sticker shock at the pump as the Middle East war drives fuel prices ever higher, with transport companies and those who drive for a living especially hard hit. News Source link

Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. Energy and trade experts are warning of a cascading impact on global supply chains that will …

After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of a North Bay, Ont., townhouse, but says he would give it all back if he could stay. The landlord says the building needed extensive renovations and that Lucas could have moved back in …

LISTEN | What’s making turbulence worse: What On Earth24:22Bumpy flight? Climate change may be to blame When Luke Wheeldon stepped onto Air Canada Flight AC33 in July of 2019, he was exhausted.  He was heading home to Australia after his band, Hurricane Fall, played a music festival in P.E.I. “Keen …

The chaos of this year’s Miss Universe pageant didn’t end after Mexico’s Fátima Bosch Fernández was crowned the winner last week in a competition marred by bullying, a hospitalization and allegations of vote rigging. Instead, inexplicably, it’s gotten worse. “Something was deeply wrong behind the scenes. We felt it. We saw it. …

On a weekday at the world’s largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed. The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrived …

Electric bus manufacturers hit hard by pandemic-era supply chain chaos could soon find themselves pummelled by a trade war.  “The immediate effect of the [U.S. President] Donald Trump tariffs is buses become more expensive overnight,” said Josipa Petrunic, the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium …

More than 2,200 people died or disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea last year, the United Nations says. With more European countries championing the success of far-right policies aimed at shutting out migrants, experts are warning even more lives could be lost in 2025 without real change. As revellers …

Cédryk Coderre was one of dozens of travellers left stranded on a Via Rail train for 10 hours earlier this year. As the government-owned passenger railway struggled with a mechanical failure, passengers on board Train 622 on Aug. 31 were left hungry and thirsty and forced to contend with sometimes …

Look up at the night sky from a city — where most people live — and you’ll see just a smattering of stars. Perhaps even an airplane or two. But drive further out, past the glare of lights from houses, cars, office buildings and street lamps, and the stars reveal themselves in a …