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Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years to cool housing market
Home buying in a hot housing market: How one family did it Mandy and Jordan Picchiottino looked for 9 months to find a home in the Atlanta suburbs. Here’s how they outcompeted others to land their dream home. Andrea Kramar, USA TODAY OTTAWA, Ontario – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced Thursday it will ban …
'Magical thinking': Environment groups say Canada's new emissions plan will fall short of UN goals
A new United Nations climate change report warns emissions need to peak by 2025, and be slashed nearly in half by 2030 to keep global warming from reaching limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Environmental groups in Canada say the Liberals’ latest emissions plan will fall short of those goals. “Our pledge is weaker …
Canada unveils multibillion-dollar plan to cut carbon emissions
Environmentalists welcome emissions reduction plan, but say it will be vital to ‘hold politicians’ feet to the fire’. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a $7.3bn (9.1 billion Canadian dollars) plan to help the country meet its carbon emissions target, including significant reductions in the oil-and-gas sector. Speaking in Vancouver on Tuesday, Trudeau linked …
Government of Canada supports new technology to make electronic payment terminals accessible to persons with visual disabilities
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NHL, health authorities plotting travel exemption between Canada, United States for final two rounds of postseason, report says
OTTAWA, Ontario — The NHL and health authorities are working on a travel exemption that would let the winner of the all-Canadian North Division and an American opponent cross the border during the final two rounds of the playoffs, including the Stanley Cup Final, according to a report by The Canadian Press. The exemption would …
Canada says reiterated to U.S. that it plans a digital services tax – minister
Canada’s Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo Canada reiterated to the United States that it …
Man wanted for exposing himself arrested for breaking car window with stolen hammer: Guelph police
KITCHENER — A man, who was already wanted for a reported indecent act, has been arrested after police say he was seen smashing a vehicle’s window with a hammer. The man was reportedly seen breaking the driver’s side window of a vehicle parked on Woolwich Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday night. He was found a …
Shameful day for Canada as Parliament rubber-stamps unconstitutional strike-breaking law: CUPE
OTTAWA, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) says it’s a shameful day for Canadians, as lawmakers in Ottawa rubber-stamped Bill C-29, a bill to make it illegal for dockworkers at the Port of Montreal to continue their five-day old strike. CUPE believes Bill C-29 is unconstitutional, as it infringes fundamental rights protected by …
Health Canada finds Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Baltimore plant safe, of high quality
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Medical experts share travel options for vaccinated people
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared vaccinated Americans to travel again, but some immunized travelers remain on the fence about making summer plans. Is it finally safe to fly? What about visiting unvaccinated relatives or traveling with young children? CNBC Global Traveler asked medical professionals — all of whom are …
