Cassidy Vaughan wants to have a second child, but says the prospect of doing so without $10-a-day child care is “scary.” “Child care can drown you,” she said. “That’s like, a mortgage payment, or you know, a car payment.” The pharmacy technician was able to return to the workforce last year after finding a subsidized…
Manitoba will cancel some hydroelectricity exports to the U.S. in an effort to power more homegrown projects, Premier Wab Kinew says. Manitoba will let two of its hydroelectric agreements which exported power across the southern border expire, Kinew told reporters on Monday. The province is “repatriating” that power to invest in Canadian projects as trade tensions…
Kashechewan First Nation has declared a state of emergency as the threat of spring flooding looms over the community on northern Ontario’s James Bay Coast. In a public notice shared with community members on social media, Kashechewan First Nation Chief Hosea Wesley said evacuations of children, elders and vulnerable residents would begin Monday. Wesley confirmed…
It’s hard to get any further from Australia than downtown Toronto, so for a dual-citizen like Leighton Walters, the quickest way to be transported home is to take a bite of Vegemite on toast. The yeasty spread, made from the byproduct of beer production, is hard to find in Canada, but back in Walters’ home…
A political scientist says Pierre Poilievre’s open resentment toward offshore tax havens and corporate jets likely isn’t enough to sever his Conservative Party’s relationship with business leaders. That’s illustrated with endorsements by more than 30 prominent executives in newspaper advertisements that ran Saturday across the country, Lori Turnbull said. While Poilievre has railed against the excesses of the corporate elite, “I…
Anvi Ahuja noticed a “freaky” new text message from a number she didn’t know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she’d just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend’s place. “I was like ‘who is tapping…
Erik Soby thought he had a shot at getting into medical school last year. The Torontonian scored high on the standard Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and had an impressive grade point average. But most medical schools in Canada now require another admissions test — called the Casper — and Soby believes that hurdle was…
Amid unprecedented trade turmoil, Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives are keen to cut red tape in the provincial economy with Premier Doug Ford and his finance minister signalling that permits, and their bureaucratic hurdles, have fallen squarely in their sights. During a recent visit to Orillia, Ont., Ford spoke about the impact “the red tape, the…
A search and rescue team in Kelowna, B.C., says a missing person was found dead on Saturday, about 155 feet (47 metres) deep in a lake, after being swept away in a “massive mudslide” earlier this month. Central Okanagan Emergency Operations said the landslide happened on Westside Road at about 9:45 p.m. PT on April 1,…
A six-year-old girl is dead and two other children are in hospital following a hit-and-run collision in Surrey’s Fraser Heights neighbourhood Sunday afternoon. In a statement Sunday evening, the Surrey Police Service said officers had responded to reports of a crash involving three children at the intersection of 164 Street and 108 Avenue around 4…