City issues warning letter to Toronto carpenter building shelters for unhoused people
The City of Toronto has sent a warning letter to a Toronto carpenter who is building tiny mobile shelters for unhoused people ahead of winter and it…
Landlords say poor tenants who received CERB can’t make rent after losing social assistance
Landlords in Saskatchewan say they are in a "morally tough spot," forced to choose between evicting tenants whose social assistance payments have been clawed back during the…
High school athletes struggle to score scholarships in COVID times
Madison Shanks dreams of getting a scholarship to play volleyball at a Canadian university.The 17-year old student's athletic prowess helped her team at Kelowna Secondary School win…
New business ventures help Canadian snowbirds circumvent a closed U.S. land border
Despite the Canada-U.S. land border closure to non-essential traffic, Canadian snowbirds Bernard Loiselle and Sylvie Charbonneau are on their way to Florida — in their RV."Finally, we're…
Family of jailed Saudi activist implores Canada to call out kingdom’s human rights record at G20
The family of a women's rights activist who has been jailed in Saudi Arabia for over two years is calling on the federal government to hold the…
Canada’s 1st Indigenous coast guard auxiliary has launched in B.C.
First Nations along B.C.'s West Coast have a long history of responding to emergencies in the Pacific.Now, more than four years since it was announced, the Indigenous…
Canadian youth sports groups are losing millions of dollars to fraud and theft
For the Corner Brook Minor Hockey Association, it was like being on the receiving end of an open-ice body check. It was in late March near the…
HBO released a brand-new streaming service where you can watch every season of The Bachelor
HBO released a brand-new streaming service, HBO Max, where you can get your Bachelor material repair. Relive season 20, 21, and 23-- much better called Ben Higgins'…
Buyer beware: Ottawa fails to track thousands of puppies, some carrying diseases, imported to Canada each year
The federal government fails to maintain a central database to track the thousands of puppies imported to Canada every year, CBC's Marketplace has learned, an issue experts…
Rising COVID-19 cases spark talk of widespread school closures, extending holiday break
The possibility of COVID-19 forcing another widespread school shutdown worries Theresa Morris, as her seven-year-old returned to her Surrey, B.C., school only about a month ago.Last spring,…
Flu cases in Canada ‘exceptionally low’ so far, public health says
At this point in last year's flu season, Canada had already recorded 711 positive cases of influenza.So far this year, there have been just 17. "Influenza is…