Federal court overturns American transgender woman's persecution-based refugee claim ( www.cbc.ca )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14641130
Price increases coming to Metro stores as soon as next week, CEO says ( www.cp24.com )
FYI, Metro "reported a first-quarter profit of $228.5 million".
Trudeau government's use of Emergencies Act during 'Freedom Convoy' violated Canadians' Charter rights: federal court ( www.thestar.com )
Poilievre calls mayors of Quebec's 2 biggest cities 'incompetent' over slowdown in home construction | CBC News ( www.cbc.ca )
Loblaws just took away one of the last ways for Canadians to buy cheap food ( www.blogto.com )
He drives an electric truck in Yellowknife, but his home can't handle the charger it came with ( www.cbc.ca )
A Yellowknife man bought a fully electric truck, expecting to install the 80 amp Level 2 charger it came with at his home. Then he found out he'd need to pay $12,000 to upgrade a transformer in his neighbourhood to make it work.
Family grieves daughter who died after Thunder Bay police did not respond to 911 call ( www.aptnnews.ca )
The environmental costs of EV batteries that politicians don't tend to talk about ( www.cbc.ca )
Along with the massive recent manufacturing investments in electric vehicle (EV) technology and talks of a greener, decarbonized future, there are some not-so-green problems....
Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet ( pressprogress.ca )
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich - Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters ( thewalrus.ca )
Sign away his son or be homeless: Single dad struggling in St. John's housing crisis ( www.cbc.ca )
A St. John's man on the brink of homelessness is facing the possibility of losing his son due to a lack of housing options for people with kids....
Do not say we have free speech in Canada ( noraloreto.substack.com )
The anti-Trudeau hate farm based out of Cairo ( www.canadaland.com )
The YouTube channel Street Politics Canada is, by its own description, an “independent news organization that aims to cover unfiltered news.”...
B.C.'s health-care crisis: First look at massive markups by 'parasitic' staffing industry ( bc.ctvnews.ca )
The contracts between the province’s health authorities and 16 for-profit companies detail massive markups for the provision of health-care workers – from nurses to X-ray technologists to occupational therapists – who are now propping up the faltering public system. Sources tell CTV News anywhere from a quarter to nearly...
'This is egregious': Sisters shocked when Toronto landlord raises rent to $9,500 a month ( toronto.ctvnews.ca )
The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500....
Car-free streets in downtown Montreal took ‘political guts.’ Can Toronto do the same? ( www.thestar.com )
Closing streets in Montreal to traffic has proven popular with residents, tourists and businesses....
Jordan Peterson learns that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences ( rabble.ca )
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use ( www.bbc.com )
As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.
Corporations hoarding homes thank Canadians for enthusiastically blaming immigration ( www.thebeaverton.com )
Read our letter threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg - The Beaverton ( www.thebeaverton.com )
Beaverton never misses
Making a Canadian Flag on Lemmy's r/Place ( canvas.toast.ooo )
Maybe here we can draw the leaf without corrupting it. For reference I scaled the wikipedia picture to 100 pixels wide and anchored the 8 corners of the side borders. Hopefully we can make it look good!
Selling Butter At 54% Profit: Leaked Docs Show Loblaws' Exorbitant Markups ( thedeepdive.ca )
Minimum wage hikes will add $54.5 million to payroll costs across Atlantic Canada ( www.cfib-fcei.ca )
Trudeau and Singh's teams quietly planning electoral reform legislation ( www.ctvnews.ca )
As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.
Lonely in a crowded world: Loneliness is an epidemic, and like COVID, it might require a public health response ( rabble.ca )
