A Toronto financial planner says, “Bartering is a great way to cut down on the costs in your life. After a customer paid for a haircut with beef and potatoes, a family-run barber shop in southwestern Ontario started taking other food in exchange for a fresh cut, which may not be that unusual given how…
“These rocks… tell us a lot about the history of our universe and how it came to be. A piece of the upcoming space mission that will study where asteroids came from comes from Manitoba. In June, a satellite made by engineering students at the University of Manitoba will be sent to the International Space…
“This was a fun way to use what we’ve been learning in class,” says a student Earlier this week, a few students at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Saskatoon were lifted into the air by cordless leaf blowers and floated around the gym. The first-year mechanical engineering technologists at the post-secondary school spent about a month building…
In clearing out three large camps in 2021, the city “chose speed over people. An investigation into the controversial moves found that Toronto was “significantly unfair” when it cleared out camps in the summer of 2021 and did so quickly, even though there was no immediate need to do so. In a report released on…
Joe Biden addressing Parliament, attending gala dinne On Thursday and Friday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will be in Ottawa for meetings, to speak to Parliament, and to attend a gala dinner. He is the first sitting American president to visit Canada’s capital since Barack Obama did so in June 2016. Later that year, as…
Bill Pechet, who designs cemeteries, says, “We are running out of space, especially in the Lower Mainland. John Douglas Carnahan bought the rights to two burial plots in the northeast corner of a hilly cemetery in a dense part of Burnaby, B.C., a little more than 25 years ago. Each one cost $750 back then.…
Settlement Services says that there are almost 160 people in the community On February 24, 2022, Serhii Malamura woke up to the sound of explosions. Russia had started to move into Ukraine. The family went to their basement because they didn’t know when or where another blast might happen. They stayed there for about a…
Daniel Boyer says that there is no direct route for Para Transpo to get to the temporary arena A long-time fan of Ottawa’s major junior hockey team is worried about how hard it will be to get to upcoming playoff games using accessible transit services run by two different cities. Daniel Boyer said he has…
Critics say that the government’s affordability formula only works for some families Darrylynn Because it costs too much, Klyne no longer buys fresh fruit. Instead, she buys frozen fruit. Every dollar is important to the working mother of two in Regina. “It’s hard right now because of the high cost of living and inflation,” said…
Daniel Boyer is a hockey fan. He says that Para Transpo doesn’t have a direct route to the Gatineau, Que. arena A long-time season ticket holder for Ottawa’s junior hockey team is worried about how hard it will be to get to upcoming playoff games using accessible transit services run by two different cities. Daniel…