Home you

you

1735 Articles
WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Prince George, B.C., was once a city of affordable homes. Now, it’s home to bidding wars

A B.C. city that once sold ads on Vancouver’s SkyTrain promising affordable home ownership is now dealing with bidding wars and same-day sales —...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care

Hospitals are shifting critically ill patients around, looking for any empty bed. Nurses and doctors are putting in exhaustion-defying amounts of overtime. Some...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Woman with dementia locked into 10-year home-heating contract — with a $15K lien on her property

When Matt Fuchs needed money to hire a home-care worker for his 82-year-old mother, who has dementia, he figured getting a line of credit...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Rogers identifies cause of Canada-wide wireless outage, but no time given for service return

Rogers apologized after an outage affecting its wireless users stretched well into Monday evening, as the company’s chief technology officer said the software issue has been...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Winnipeg girls’ volleyball coach dismissed from role after telling players he’s allowed to use racial slurs

A Winnipeg volleyball player says she was disgusted after her coach said he should be allowed to use racial slurs while expressing his...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Couple reunited after years of being separated in long-term care

A Saskatchewan couple that was separated in long-term care has been reunited thanks to their daughter. Theresa and James Kovach were forced to...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

What you can and cannot do now that Ontario has tightened its stay-at-home order

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced new public health measures on Friday that tighten the stay-at-home order already in place and include new restrictions on travel...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Mighty Heart, one-eyed colt with N.S. ties, named Canadian Horse of the Year

Mighty Heart, the one-eyed colt with a Nova Scotia connection, has captured the title of Horse of the Year in Canada. Canadian Horse...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

More than 200 travellers fined for refusing to quarantine in hotels after landing in Canada

Len Desharnais says he believes Canada’s hotel quarantine requirement for international travellers during the pandemic is a fair idea.  But shortly after arriving in...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Ontario’s pharmacy vaccine rollout leaves some hard-hit communities with limited access to shots

A month after Ontario began shipping COVID-19 vaccines to pharmacies around the province, an analysis by CBC News shows some of the hardest-hit...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Here’s how Labrador Inuit are leading the way by adapting to the curveballs of climate change

The social enterprise SmartICE has been internationally recognized for its ability to combine traditional knowledge with technology in order to help people adapt...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Courier giant DHL padded own pockets with ‘hidden fees,’ class action alleges

A Vancouver law firm is going to court against DHL, alleging the courier giant profited by misrepresenting some of the fees it charges...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Lessons from Quebec City’s gym outbreak, one of Canada’s largest COVID-19 superspreading events

We still don’t know exactly how it started — a runner on a treadmill, or perhaps someone lifting weights — but an outbreak...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Students, graduates, politicians decry ‘devastating’ cuts at Laurentian University

Students at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., continue to react to news the school is cutting dozens of programs and laying off about...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Alberta NDP would likely form majority if election held today, new poll suggests

EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News and The Road Ahead commissioned this public opinion research in March, just as the third wave of COVID-19 cases was building...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

‘An ugly stain for years to come’: Laurentian University interests reeling from staff, program cuts

Monday was one of the worst days on record for the Laurentian University community, with the news roughly 100 professors lost their jobs...