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10.04.2023 / 05:15

Bank of Canada expected to hold interest rate again as inflation cools

The Bank of Canada is expected to hold its key interest rate steady this week as inflation continues to slow, despite other data suggesting the economy is still running hot.

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As more Canadians seek IVF treatment, advocates warn about infertility ‘crisis’

Cassie and Brady Staigh had been trying to have a baby for about three years when they finally decided to seek help.

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Ukraine rescue group brings home 31 children taken by Russia

The head of a Ukrainian rescue organization said Saturday that the organization has brought back 31 children from Russia, where they had been taken during the war.

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CRA ‘confident’ a compromise is possible as tax season strike fears grow

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says it will be transparent about any impact to its services if workers go on strike — potentially as soon as this week.At the same time, the agency says it is “confident” a compromise can be reached.“The CRA is committed to being transparent with Canadians about impacts to services, should they happen,” the agency said in a statement released Friday.The deadline for filing income tax and benefit returns for 2022 is April 30, but since that’s a Sunday CRA says Canadians can still file on May 1. Read more: CRA workers vote in favour of strike action as tax deadline nears An ongoing labour dispute over contracts and wages resulted in CRA workers voting Friday in favour of strike action.The CRA said it will resume negotiations later this month with the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Union of Taxation Employees to try to reach a new collective agreement that is both fair to workers and reasonable for taxpayers.A final round of negotiations is set to take place April 17-20, with CRA workers in a legal strike position starting April 14.“We are confident that the parties will find many areas of potential compromise and trade-off, through honest discussions and concessions by both sides, during the upcoming negotiations,” the CRA said.

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Will TikTok vanish on campus? Universities debate its future as app-maker cries foul

TikTok, a move the app-maker calls “ill-conceived.”The University of British Columbia (UBC), Dalhousie University, McGill University and Memorial University of Newfoundland have either implemented or are planning to enact policies or recommendations on the use of the popular social media app. Read more: UBC encourages students to uninstall TikTok app, citing ‘not yet’ proven data risks Canada has joined a growing number of countries in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region that have banned TikTok from government devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns increase.

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‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse sex abuse charges upheld, drug crime dropped

A Nevada judge on Friday threw out a drug trafficking charge against a Dances With Wolves actor but upheld a Las Vegas grand jury’s sweeping indictment on 18 sexual abuse-related felony crimes.

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Total solar eclipse to arc across North America in April 2024

One year from now, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions of Canadians will be taking it in.

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CRA workers vote in favour of strike action as tax deadline nears

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers have voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of taking strike action, according to a statement released Friday from the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

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Soft, hard or ‘bumpy’ landing? Gauging Canada’s odds of a recession

Ottawa’s 2023 budget — will Canada’s previously roaring economy coast into a so-called “soft landing” as it slows, or tumble sharply into a recession?Ongoing calls from a chorus of economists predicting a recession to hit Canada in 2023 have come up against surprisingly strong economic data in the early part of the year, making the tea leaves of an economic downturn especially hard to read.A recession is a widespread decline in economic activity over a certain period of time – usually defined as two straight quarters of negative growth.Ottawa’s 2023 budget bases its economic forecast on a consensus of private sector economists.That document, released March 28, showed that economists’ place the odds of a recession higher than when they were last polled for the 2022 fall economic update.But if the economy is supposed to be slowing down right now, someone might want to tell the economy.January’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures outpaced initial estimates from Statistics Canada with 0.6 per cent growth, rebounding from the flat reading in the final quarter of 2022.Canada’s labour market meanwhile held tight with a 5.0 per cent unemployment rate through the first quarter of 2023. The country’s employers have been in a hiring mood as of late, with net 383,000 positions added since last September.

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RCMP arrests two women after they return to Canada from ISIS camps in Syria

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High-risk people should get next COVID boosters this spring: Ontario’s top doctor

COVID-19 infection should get their next vaccine booster shot this spring.Dr. Kieran Moore says high-risk individuals include anyone age 65 and older, pregnant women and people living in senior care facilities, such as long-term care homes.The list also includes people over 18 who are immunocompromised as well as First Nations, Inuit or Metis age 55 and older and their non-Indigenous household members of the same age.

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Here's what really happens to your used clothing donations

FILE - Donation coats sit outside on Dec. 22, 2020, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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A grocery rebate scam is targeting Canadians. How to avoid getting tricked

Scammers are using Ottawa’s proposed grocery rebate to target unsuspecting Canadians, cybersecurity officials say.

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‘Clear violation’: Experts say Alberta premier must explain call with accused

Premier Danielle Smith must explain to Albertans why she discussed a criminal case with the accused before his trial, whether she still believes such calls are OK and whether she will continue to have these conversations, legal experts and political scientists say.

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Majority of Canadians who don’t own a home have ‘given up’: poll

Despite a sizeable drop in home prices over the past year and a slew of federal government measures aimed at addressing housing affordability, a new poll suggests Canadians are no more encouraged about breaking into the housing market.

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Why is your grocery bill so high? Canadians blame price gouging, survey finds

food prices are higher, despite grocery store CEOs testifying otherwise.The report was done by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Lab in partnership with Caddle, and surveyed close to 10,000 Canadians at the end of March.It found that in all provinces except Saskatchewan and Quebec, grocery chain price gouging was chosen as the main reason food prices have risen in Canada recently. Nova Scotians chose that reason the most, at 51.8 per cent, followed by Newfoundland and Labrador at 38.1 per cent, and Prince Edward Island at 36.1 per cent.Other provinces trailed a little above 30 per cent in choosing that reason, with those in Saskatchewan and Quebec choosing it the least.

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The Rogers-Shaw deal is done. What happens next for Canadian consumers, telecom

Two years after it was first announced, Rogers Communications Inc.’s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. is complete.

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P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives projected to win majority government

Prince Edward Island were projected to deliver a majority win to the incumbent Progressive Conservatives on Monday after an election campaign dominated by debate over heath care and housing.An hour after polls closed, Premier Dennis King’s Tories had captured 56 per cent of the votes counted and were leading in 22 of the province’s 27 ridings. King was easily re-elected in his riding of Brackley-Hunter River.The Liberals were ahead in three ridings and the Greens in two.King’s first four years in office were marked by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two major post-tropical storms and mounting health-care woes.

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Got a gift card? Use it before you possibly lose it

Bed Bath & Beyond.She knew the retailer’s Canadian locations were shutting down, but she thought since the stores were still open she could use her cards.She was wrong.“We went to use our gift cards and were told unfortunately that we weren’t able to anymore,” she told Global News. “We contacted BBB to see what kind of options we had about getting our money back for it and we kind of hit a wall.“It was really frustrating.

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Ellie Goulding Says Becoming A Parent During The Pandemic Didn’t Affect Her New Music Like You’d Expect

Ellie Goulding is super proud of her new album Higher Than Heaven.

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Weekend knife attack on B.C. bus was ISIS terrorism, RCMP alleges

An attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend is being treated as terrorism after RCMP national security police took over the investigation.

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Artemis II: Why NASA is sending a crew around the moon after 50 years

moon.NASA is planning to send four astronauts, including a Canadian, around the moon with the launch of the Artemis II mission set for next year. Read more: NASA reveals next-gen spacesuit for the next astronauts on the Moon In preparation for that, on Monday, the U.S space agency and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will be announcing the four-person crew that will venture around the moon and back.Monday’s event will be held at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston.Canada’s Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will be in attendance along with the CSA’s vice president, Mary Preville.On April 3, you will meet the team of astronauts flying to the Moon on the #Artemis II mission.These explorers will pave the way for future lunar landings and our next giant leap — human exploration of Mars.

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Budget 2023 won’t fuel inflation, but misses the bigger economic picture: experts

federal budget won’t fuel inflation but may be missing the bigger economic picture as a recession looms and the country’s cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze Canadians, experts say.The budget unveiled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday promises to cut more than $15 billion in spending from the government’s books, but also abandons plans from the fall economic statement that projected a map to balanced budget. The federal deficit is projected to decrease by up to $14 billion in the downside scenario by 2027-28 from $43 billion.“If you look at the size of the deficit that they are projecting going forward, they’re not really adding materially to inflation relative to the path that we were already on,” said Craig Alexander, the former chief economist of Deloitte, in an interview with Mercedes Stephenson that aired Sunday on The West Block.

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RCMP ‘will be successful’ in laying more interference charges: interim chief

RCMP says he would support additional laws that allow police to further crack down on foreign interference in Canada, as well as ways to further collaborate with intelligence officials on the issue.But Mike Duheme adds multiple investigations remain underway that he’s confident will lead to criminal charges, though he did not give specifics.“When you ask any police officers if we can have more laws — if we can have additional legislation that would ensure that it would assist us as we move forward, but also ensure the safety of the public and of Canadians — I’d say yes, I’m favorable for that and very supportive,” Duheme told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block. Read more: On foreign interference, Canada playing ‘whack-a-mole’ to China’s chess: expert He pointed to the case in November where a Hydro-Quebec employee was charged with alleged espionage on behalf of China as an example of a successful RCMP investigation into foreign interference.“We were successful in laying charges against this individual, and we have other files that are moving forward that we will be successful in laying charges,” said Duheme, who was previously deputy commissioner of federal policing and oversaw foreign interference investigations as part of his mandate.Duheme would not say if those charges were related to the alleged Chinese-operated “police stations” the RCMP says it is investigating in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal areas.He said those investigations are ongoing and urged anyone with information to reach out to investigators.

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Should you get another COVID booster? Guidelines are changing

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it no longer “routinely recommends” additional COVID-19 vaccine boosters for medium or low-risk people, but one Canadian doctor is warning the “advice isn’t probably the best.”

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Ottawa spends millions on 944K phone lines. Nearly a third are ‘dormant’

In the 2023 federal budget, the Trudeau government vowed to find savings of more than $15-billion over four years.

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Canadian Navy offers ‘no strings attached’ program amid recruitment woes

The Royal Canadian Navy is offering a one-year trial period for Canadians to join with “no strings attached” as it faces a major recruitment challenge and unprecedented personnel shortage.

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Canada’s carbon pricing is going up again. What it means for your wallet

carbon price is set to go up starting Saturday.The fuel charge is rising by 30 per cent from $50 per tonne of emissions to $65 on April 1. This will translate to an increase of roughly three cents per litre for gas, reaching a total of 14 cents per litre.The scheduled increase will apply in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon and Nunavut.Meanwhile, the carbon price jump will go into effect in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island on July 1.

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Reactions to Rogers-Shaw deal mixed in Alberta

Reaction to the $26 billion Rogers-Shaw merger in Alberta was mixed on the day it was announced.

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How a short trip to Canada turned into a nightmare for an Argentinian family

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Prehistoric sabertooth skull found in Iowa likely last of species to walk Earth, researchers say

AMES, Iowa - A well-preserved sabertooth cat skull found in southwest Iowa may have been one of the last of the species to walk the planet as glaciers receded and temperatures rose, according to researchers.Radiocarbon dating indicates the male cat died at the end of the Ice Age between 13,605 and 13,460 years ago before getting buried in the East Nishnabotna River, according to Matthew Hil, an associate professor of archaeology at Iowa State and expert on animal bones. Hill analyzed the specimen along with David Easterla, professor emeritus of biology at Northwest Missouri State University. Their findings were recently published in Quaternary Science Reviews.Hill said the chance of finding any fossilized remains from a sabertooth cat is slim, and finding one in Page County is even rarer.Ventral side of sabertooth cat skull (Credit: Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University) "The skull is a really big deal," he added.

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Rogers-Shaw deal approved by Ottawa in blockbuster telecom merger

Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. will go ahead after it received the final sign-off it needed from Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.He called the merger a “watershed moment” for the telecom sector that he claimed would drive wireless prices down for Canadians while growing the combined firm’s overall headcount.The merger, a union between two Canadian telecom giants valued at $26 billion, including debt, has changed significantly in response to political and industry pressure since it was first announced in March 2021.The final permutation of the merger will see Shaw sell its Freedom Mobile business and transfer wireless spectrum to Quebecor’s Videotron as the latter seeks to expand outside Quebec.Champagne’s approval came on the companies’ March 31 deadline to close the transaction.

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As Ontario announces minimum wage increase, here’s how others compare

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‘Work to be done’: 1 year after residential schools apology, Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery

Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised.

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‘There were failures’: N.S. shooting inquiry report slams RCMP response to 2020 tragedy

The long-anticipated Mass Casualty Commission’s final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting highlighted significant systemic issues within Canada’s national police force and called for widespread changes.

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Vatican formally renounces Discovery Doctrine after decades of Indigenous demands

The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands and form the basis of some property law today.

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CRA to roll out new automatic tax filing system. Here’s what to know

The Canada Revenue Agency will pilot a new automatic system next year to help vulnerable Canadians who don’t file their taxes get their benefits.

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Will Budget 2023 make life more affordable for Canadians? Here’s what experts say

The 2023 federal budget saw the Liberals hike up their spending plans and devote plenty of attention to affordability concerns, but experts are unconvinced the proposals will make a dent on the finances of everyday Canadians, nor the country’s economic trajectory.

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A 2nd giant ‘hole’ appears on the sun, could trigger more amazing aurora

A massive “hole,” up to 20 times bigger than Earth, has appeared on the surface of the sun for the second time in a week and scientists are warning that it could impact our planet.

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Rare, flesh-eating bacteria on the rise in U.S. waters. Will it reach Canada?

flesh-eating bacteria is slowly creeping up the eastern U.S. coast, and some experts warn that it could eventually find its way into Canada if climate change continues to heat our oceans and lakes.The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is usually found in subtropical regions, like the Gulf Coast (in states like Florida and Texas), which is home to warm waters with low salt content.

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Canada eases some rules around foreign homebuyers ban

The federal government announced amendments to the foreign homebuyer ban on Monday that eases some restrictions for non-Canadians, including newcomers to the country.

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Here are 5 ways Budget 2023 will impact your wallet

2023 budget is geared towards helping Canadian households make ends meet — or at the very least, for example, shaving a few dollars off the cost of a concert ticket. Read more: In Budget 2023, Liberals eye inflation relief ‘without having to write a big cheque’ Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland teed up the 2023 spending plans as providing support for vulnerable Canadians who are feeling stressed about their own budgets after a year of high inflation and rapidly rising interest rates.Some proposed measures will make a direct impact on households, while others will change the kinds of charges and interest rates businesses can levy at Canadians.Here are five big takeaways from the federal budget you’ll want to know about.One highly touted measure in the 2023 budget is a one-time tax rebate aimed at helping Canadians cope with rampant food inflation.The so-called “grocery rebate,” as reported by Global News and others ahead of the budget’s release on Tuesday, would be aimed at lower-income households.

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In Budget 2023, Liberals eye inflation relief ‘without having to write a big cheque’

2023 federal budget sees the Liberal government shift its tact amid an uncertainty economy and Canadians in need of inflation relief, looking to save money in the near term with cost-free measures that flex its influence on areas where it can make a tangible impact.Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled the second budget of the Liberals’ current minority mandate on Tuesday and put the focus on both reining in spending while supporting Canadians who have been hit hard by high inflation and rising interest rates.“Our most vulnerable friends and neighbours are still feeling the bite of higher prices,” she said in a speech to Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, according to her prepared remarks.“And that is why our budget delivers targeted inflation relief to those who need it most.”The biggest line item on the affordability front is $2.5 billion in spending for a so-called “grocery rebate” aimed at lower-income households, as reported by Global News and others ahead of Tuesday’s budget release.The one-time rebate is expected to deliver $467 directly to a family of four, $234 to a single Canadian without kids and $225 to the average senior.An estimated 11 million Canadian households are expected to receive the boost via the GST tax credit mechanism, and it does not have to be spent on groceries.Other measures announced in the 2023 budget without costs attached are a plan to crackdown on so-called “junk fees” attached to concert tickets or baggage costs, for example, as well as plans to move towards an automatic tax filing system to ensure low-income Canadians take advantage of already available rebates.The federal government also announced plans in the budget to follow in the European Union’s footsteps towards a universal

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Quebec police officer killed during attempted arrest northeast of Montreal

police officer and a suspect are dead following an attack in Louiseville, northeast of Montreal in the Mauricie region.According to provincial police, at around 8:30 p.m. Monday night, police were called to intervene in a dispute in an apartment building near Saint-Laurent Avenue, where the suspect was allegedly uttering threats.At the scene, the suspect allegedly attacked the female police officer, identified as Sgt.

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Return runaround by Amazon makes Alberta woman feel like a ‘criminal’

An Alberta woman said online retail giant Amazon Canada made her feel like a criminal after she sent back a defective product earlier this year.

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What to expect from budget 2023 as ‘storm clouds’ gather over Canada’s economy

Canada’s Liberal government is in a tight spot heading into the 2023 federal budget.

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Military’s new housing plan under fire over living allowance cut

Canadian Armed Forces is under fire for its plan to cut thousands of troops off a cost-of-living allowance without much notice.The military announced last week that about 7,700 Armed Forces members will no longer receive the top-up starting in July, when it will be replaced by a new housing benefit that commanders say will better assist those who need the most help.Social media and online forums dedicated to military personnel have been crackling with dissatisfaction over the plan, including the abbreviated timeline. Some are also unhappy with a new 10 per cent pay increase over four years, retroactive to 2021.Experts say the lack of notice speaks to larger problems around how the military treats its people, which they worry is sparking anger and frustration at a time when the Canadian Armed Forces is struggling with a recruitment and retention crisis.

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Why millennials in Canada are hardest hit by debt: ‘Living on the edge’

Insolvency trustee Doug Hoyes encounters a lot of Canadians with money troubles, but he’s become particularly sympathetic to the plight of young people who find themselves financially underwater.

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