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If Canada’s big grocery chains are found to have been making excessive profits from high food prices, the federal government should slap them with a windfall tax, a new parliamentary report recommends.  Committee that demanded answers from grocery leaders submits recommendations. If Canada’s Competition Bureau finds that grocery store giants …

The bank is being inundated on social media with customers raising concerns about being unable to pay bills and automatic payments putting their accounts into the negative. Banks says it is working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue. TD Bank Group says its direct deposit system has been …

Tumbler Ridge physician Dr. Charles Helm used to look forward to summer. Now, he dreads it. The town is one of many B.C. communities facing the imminent threat of wildfires each summer.  Tumbler Ridge doctor Charles Helm used to look forward to summer. Now, he dreads it because of wildfires. …

The six-year interval since he scored back-to-back victories at Forest Hills could be too big a gap to spur another title drive but Tony Lascuña still feels good about his chances in the ICTSI Forest Hills Classic, which gets going on June 20 at the Nicklaus course. The mere thought …

In celebration of National Heritage Month last May, the Philippine Heritage Society held the “Tertulia Flores de Mayo: A Celebration of Fashion, Arts & Music” at Casa Blanca, Intramuros last May 30 with the support of Manila Hotel and the Intramuros Administration. Tertulia is a Spanish word for social gathering. …

The building of a multiplex is not a budget-friendly undertaking in Toronto and that raises questions about how the people building them will finance their construction.  City favours seeing more multiplexes, but no municipal, provincial incentive money for building them. Are multiplexes the answer to Toronto’s housing crisis? Toronto city …

Some 1.9 million Canadians owed the federal government a total of $23.5 billion in student loans as of July 2022 — a number that only balloons further when including provincial loans and private debt. Meanwhile, tuition fees are now 13 times more than they were 50 years ago.  Expert says …

Volunteer firefighters were the first to arrive at a deadly crash in southwestern Manitoba on Thursday, but officials say their numbers have been dwindling since 2016.  Emergency response would have taken longer if not for volunteer firefighters: Manitoba Fire Chiefs Association. When 15 people died in a fatal crash on …

Canadian Blood Services is making an urgent call for blood and plasma donors this week as thousands of appointments sit unfilled. The national organization says it has 150,000 appointments to fill in order to tackle a dwindling inventory of blood and plasma, including many appointments in the Greater Toronto Area. …

Make that two golds for Filipino Olympic gymnast Carlos Yulo. Yulo captured the vault gold medal in the Men’s Senior Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships at the OCBC Hall in Singapore on Sunday, June 18. The 4-foot-11 gymnast scored 14.299 points to top the event to double his gold haul. He …