3 h. ago Montreal’s Le Miaousee wants to become Canada’s first permanent cat museum

MONTREAL — For about 100 years, the presbytery on De Castelnau street in Montreal’s Villeray borough was home to Catholics who lived and prayed there. Now, the cats are taking over. From paintings, historic photographs, book covers and shiny stuffed animal eyes, they stare down at visitors from the walls of Le Miaousee, which bills […]

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7 h. ago Montreal’s Le Miaousée wants to become Canada’s first permanent cat museum

The museum is soft-launching with a pop-up exhibit from Sept. 12 to 28. By next year, Nahani hopes to establish a permanent, full-time space dedicated to all things feline.

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1 week ago People questioning how so many Ontario companies claim they can't find local hires

While a growing number of Ontario residents are finding themselves out of work amid a deadly recession-ish/unemployment crisis combo, a suspiciously high number of local businesses continue to take advantage of the federal government's foreign worker program to hire overseas staffers — and residents are catching on.Canada's Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIA) are certainly nothing new, but far more people are talking about the tool lately than perhaps ever before as Ontario (and the rest of the country) continues to battle a struggling economy, rampant job losses, tariff-related woes and the inevitable effects of a sharp population surge fueled by immigration.Brands like Tim Hortons have been called out for seemingly overutilizing of LMIAs, which are meant to be reserved solely for cases where there is "a need for a foreign worker to fill a job [because] no Canadian worker or permanent resident is available to do it."A q...

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2 w. ago Asked about B.C.'s Chinese ferry deal, Gregor Robertson says ’buy Canada’ policy needs work

Robertson says Canada needs to 'catch up' with the United States when it comes to protecting domestic jobs and the economy

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2 w. ago Ontario to end medical research testing on dogs, cats following whistleblower exposé

'If there's anyone else out there that's doing this to animals, come clean, because we're gonna catch you,' says Premier Doug Ford

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3 w. ago Alberta boy who tried to ‘catch a predator’ lucky to escape after alleged abduction, police say

The 12-year-old and a group of kids started an online conversation with the suspect and arranged to meet him. 'It could have gone incredibly wrong'

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3 w. ago Mixed breed and domestic shorthair most popular dogs and cats in Canada

When it comes to dogs and cats, non-designer mixed breeds and the domestic shorthair, respectively, top a survey on most popular breeds. Rover.com, an online marketplace for pet care, released its seventh annual Top Pet Breeds report just in time for International Dog Day on Aug. 26. Non-designer mixed breeds claimed the top spot for […]

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