Around Canada

Drake Landing, once the leading solar heating community of its kind in North America, may have to revert to fossil fuels as the aging system is breaking down and may be too expensive or impossible to fix. Next steps may be decommissioning system, relying on natural gas as heat source. …

Canada will soon have a second laboratory capable of working with the most dangerous pathogens in the world, home to Canada’s Centre for Pandemic Research. It will be the only non-government Level 4 facility in the country, part of the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization. Post-pandemic explosion …

McGill University teaching assistants want better wages and better working conditions. They’ve just launched an eight-week strike in hopes of putting pressure on the institution.  ‘Low ball after low ball,’ teaching assistant says of McGill offers. One day into an eight-week strike, the union representing McGill University teaching assistants (TA) …

Nada Alkhayyat woke up one Sunday morning back in August to some suspicious charges on her credit card, but little did she know that was just the start of her worries. Her daughter had forgotten her purse — and Alkhayyat’s Mastercard, which she’d borrowed — in the family Jeep the …

A group of parents have filed a lawsuit against a Montreal-area high school art teacher and his school board after students found their classroom artwork available for purchase on the teacher’s personal website last month. Students discovered their classroom artwork selling for more than $100 on teacher’s website. A group …

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government will make auto insurance changes a central feature of the budget it tables on Tuesday, CBC News has learned. Doug Ford government will increase choices for drivers to get lower car insurance premiums, insiders say. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government will make auto insurance changes …

An advertising campaign by Premier Doug Ford’s government that has been criticized as partisan self-promotion is costing taxpayers about $8 million, CBC News has learned. Publicly funded ads from Doug Ford’s government aired during Super Bowl, Oscars, Emmy Awards. An advertising campaign by Premier Doug Ford’s government that has been …

As the deadline looms for Ukrainians to use Canada’s emergency visa, Nova Scotia is experiencing a final spike in new arrivals. Ukrainian nationals have until March 31 to come to Canada. Ukrainians rush to Canada ahead of emergency visa deadline With a deadline looming for Ukrainians to come to Canada, …

The Saskatchewan Teachers Federation says job action is continuing this week, starting on Monday with extracurricular activities and noon-hour supervision being impacted. The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation says extracurricular activities and noon-hour supervision are impacted. Teachers across the province are pulling out of extracurricular activities on Monday, and some schools divisions …

The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) is investigating after police discovered a man dead in Surrey on Sunday. According to a written statement from the IIO, police were called to a home in the area of 159A Street and 37 Avenue following reports of a domestic dispute. Police units …