TORONTO — Canada’s reliance on food banks has soared to a grim new milestone, according to data from Food Banks Canada. The organization says it recorded more than two million visits in March 2024 – nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019, and six per cent above last year’s record-breaking figure....
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Canada on track to be world’s third-largest wheat exporter in ’24-25 crop year
Canada is on track to be the world’s third-largest wheat exporter for the second year in a row as crop production in the prairie provinces continues to increase. International data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Canada overtaking Australia for the third-place spot in the 2023-2024 crop year, and predicts a similar ranking for...
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Poilievre promises to abolish federal sales tax on new homes under $1M
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party forms government, it will scrap the federal sales tax on new homes sold for less than $1 million and push provinces to do the same. Poilievre made the case for the cut in a six-minute video published online, arguing governments are partly to blame for high home...
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Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC
OTTAWA — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has granted Google a five-year exemption from the Online News Act, ordering it to release the $100 million it now owes to Canadian news outlets within 60 days. Google agreed last year to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million a year, indexed to inflation, in order to...
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Fake content is getting harder to detect but Hinton has an idea to make it easier
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says it’s getting more difficult to tell videos, voices and images generated with the technology from material that’s real — but he has an idea to aid in the battle. The increased struggle has contributed to a shift in how the British-Canadian computer scientist and recent Nobel Prize recipient thinks...
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Fewer young Canadians own homes but majority planning to buy within five years: poll
TORONTO — A new report says that while fewer young Canadians own a home compared with three years ago, a majority of millennials and Gen Z adults still plan to purchase one in the next five years. Scotiabank’s 2024 housing poll says the number of Canadians between 18 and 34 who own a home has...
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Authorities launch ‘interagency operation’ at federal jail in New York housing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Investigators from various federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled lockup in New York City where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. The investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies had descended on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Monday,...
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Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79. Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in...
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Ready for liftoff: Why Canada’s telecom sector sees opportunity in satellite internet
TORONTO — When a severe tropical cyclone hit New Zealand in February 2023, it left thousands on the country’s North Island without internet or cellphone service for nearly a week, as major roads carrying vital fibre optic cables were washed out. Of residents who managed to retain an internet connection amid Cyclone Gabrielle, many relied...
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Amanda Todd’s family joins American parents in lawsuit against social media giants
WASHINGTON — When B.C. teenager Amanda Todd sat in front of her computer and detailed the relentless bullying and extortion she’d faced on social media, it sent a shock wave to parents around the world. Twelve years later her family is joining others in a lawsuit alleging those dangers persist for kids online. Only a...