Nearly 60% of retirees are supporting adult children financially, survey finds - National | Globalnews.ca ( globalnews.ca )
The report said 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases.
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Downtown Toronto faces a crush of rising office vacancies that could threaten building valuations ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
With five million square feet of available space across 47 office towers, downtown Toronto is becoming a tenant’s paradise - and an investor’s potential nightmare
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Would you fight Alberta's wildfires for $22/hour? And no benefits? ( www.cbc.ca )
It was early August 2022, when Michelle Wigmore was on her way back from leading a crew of wildland firefighters near Grande Prairie, Alta. They stopped for a coffee in Fox Creek, about 230 kilometres northwest of Edmonton....
Anyone else doing the Loblaws boycott?
Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don't have many alternatives, but I'm doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
'Give us $600 and also we hate you': WestJet's new UltraBasic fare gets roasted online ( www.cbc.ca )
If there's anything people can agree on these days, it's that flying sucks....
Canada’s rich getting richer, StatCan report finds, with 90% of Canadian wealth now in the hands of homeowners ( www.thestar.com )
https://archive.ph/JxZih...
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Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame ( www.cbc.ca )
Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local grocery store, a Loblaw-owned Fortinos in Burlington, Ont....
For the good of the country, rich Canadians need to pay higher taxes on passive income ( policyoptions.irpp.org )
https://web.archive.org/web/20240527133143/https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2024/tax-the-rich/...
Corporations are buying local vet clinics — raising questions about price, choice and quality of care ( www.cbc.ca )
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
An oligopoly is driving up grocery prices. What can we do? ( www.nationalobserver.com )
In 2023, a shocking one out of every five people in Canada were food insecure — defined as having a lack of access to food, or concern over lack of food access. Severe food insecurity — when people miss meals and sometimes go days without food — rose by 50 per cent....
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Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters ( kitchener.citynews.ca )
Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview....
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Canadian university sues its own students over encampment for Palestine ( www.middleeasteye.net )
The University of Waterloo in Canada has filed a lawsuit against its students for continuing its pro-Palestine encampment urging the university to disclose and divest from Israel....
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Canadian acting icon Donald Sutherland dead at 88 ( www.nelsonstar.com )
Donald Sutherland, the prolific film and television actor whose long career stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88....
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Gig workers in B.C. to be paid minimum of $20.88 an hour ( www.cbc.ca )
How Canada’s media manufactures sympathy for the landlord class ( breachmedia.ca )
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Alberta claims renewables pause wasn’t political. Emails, texts say otherwise | The Narwhal ( thenarwhal.ca )
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Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down ( www.theguardian.com )
A senior Canadian federal scientist has alleged that the government shut down an investigation into a mystery brain illness in New Brunswick that he believes may have affected 350 people....
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Quebec court rejects McGill injunction request to remove encampment ( montreal.ctvnews.ca )
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Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives ( cultmtl.com )
A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.
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Fourth man arrested and charged in killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar ( www.cbc.ca )
Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room ( www.cbc.ca )
The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit's at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local...
“It’s Like a Cult”: Breaking Free from the Far Right | The Walrus ( thewalrus.ca )
Beyond his job as a freelance process server in Toronto, thirty-five-year-old Josh Chernofsky didn’t have much going on in the spring of 2019. But over time, he’d developed a rapport with one of the security guards at the University Avenue courthouses. They’d chat about this and that, often about security work; Chernofsky...
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Take all that you can grab. ( lemmy.world )
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Galen Weston calls Loblaw boycott 'misguided criticism', says grocer not responsible for higher prices ( ca.finance.yahoo.com )
"Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what's actually driving food prices higher in this country."
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