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Federal housing budget a good start, more targeted support needed: Housing advocates
OTTAWA - Advocates say while the federal government's focus on housing affordability in the budget is promising, its measures could go further to help people in the most dire housing need. Emilie Coyl...
Apr 12, 2022
South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached the state's attorney general for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash, rejecting the recommendation of a special investigative...
Apr 12, 2022
Jurors shown surveillance video montage of 2020 Quebec City Halloween stabbings
QUEBEC - Jurors in the trial of the man accused of using a sword to murder two people in Quebec City on Halloween night in 2020 are viewing video surveillance footage from the scene. Quebec City polic...
Apr 12, 2022
Unions look for details on federal budget pledge to ease access to training funding
OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Labour Congress says she's worried that labour groups will be left out of talks over a federal pledge to let workers access skills training programs before they becom...
Apr 12, 2022
Film industry declined by 5 per cent in pandemic, Hollywood productions grew: report
OTTAWA - Canada's film and TV industry remained afloat at the height of the pandemic, experiencing only a five per cent slump in the number of productions between April 2020 and March last year. A new...
Apr 12, 2022
Canadian runner DeBues-Stafford leaves Portland for Victoria over Houlihan case
TORONTO - Canadian middle-distance runner Gabriela DeBues-Stafford has moved to Victoria to train, citing stress around the doping ban of her former Portland training partner Shelby Houlihan. DeBues-S...
Apr 12, 2022
Governing Coalition Avenir Québec wins Montreal-area byelection, Liberals take fifth
MONTREAL - The leader of Quebec's official Opposition says she's disappointed her party finished fifth in a Montreal-area byelection on Monday. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters today th...
Apr 12, 2022
City creating new master plan for River Bend, wants your input
The City of Red Deer is developing a new 20-year site vision for River Bend Golf and Recreational Area, and wants your feedback.Working alongside the River Bend Golf and Recreation Society, the 20-yea...
Apr 12, 2022
Multiple-property holders own upwards of 41% of housing in some provinces: StatCan
New data from Statistics Canada shows multiple-property owners held between 29 and 41 per cent of the housing stock in Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 2019 and 2020. The da...
Apr 12, 2022
With aid to spend, schools look for students who need help
Schools across America are racing to make up for time they lost during the pandemic by budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days and trying to untangle which stud...
Apr 12, 2022