7 h. ago Media Advisory: Picket Line Locations for Calgary, Foothills and Black Gold Strikes

CALGARY, Alberta — The Canadian Union of Public Employees released the picket line locations for Monday, February 24, 2025. Please note, that these locations are for Monday only. Going forward, CUPE expects locations to change. CUPE 40 (Calgary Board of Education) 7:00 am-9:00 am: McDougall Centre, 455 6 St SW, Calgary 9:00 am-11:00 am: Calgary […]

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20 h. ago RCMP board rejects bias claim over ‘Three Amigos’ comment in misconduct case

A police conduct board has decided not to recuse itself from a hearing for three British Columbia RCMP officers who are facing possible dismissal over alleged racist group chats.

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20 h. ago Tax dollars subsidized IKEA, The Brick electric vehicles, Metro Vancouver board hears

When Global News asked Metro Vancouver Chair Mike Hurley about the money, he said "I'm not really well aware of that one. That one caught me a bit off guard, so I'm not sure."

Economics

22 h. ago Fraser Basin Council loses Metro Vancouver funding as board begins spending review

Funding for the Fraser Basin Council was cut while six other programs were spared. Cutting all the programs would have resulted in a savings of about $1 per household.

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24 h. ago Toronto seeing most new home listings in Canada but hardly anyone is buying

Predictions that Toronto's housing market would see a triumphant return of the enthusiasm and heat it's historically known for have fallen flat thus far, with sales continuing to dwindle far below hopes and expectations, and new listings continuing to pour onto the market.Nearly 20,000 homes are now up for sale within the GTA, per the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)'s numbers for January, marking a worrying 48.6 per cent uptick in new listings and 70.2 per cent increase in active listings compared to this time last year.The number of sales transactions, meanwhile, has fallen 7.9 per cent over the same time frame, disheartening realtors and sellers who were expecting a bounceback after an abysmal 2024.RBC economists really put these numbers into perspective in a new special housing report that this month compared how the real estate scenes in major cities across Canada are faring.One graph shows Toronto to have the third-biggest year-over...

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29 h. ago Alberta judge grants injunction blocking some students with special needs from attending school

Support staff and educational assistants at Black Gold School Division, just south of Edmonton, have served the school board with strike notice on Thursday and will be striking on Monday morning

Society

29 h. ago Alberta judge grants injunction against blocking students with special needs from attending school

Support staff and educational assistants at Black Gold School Division, just south of Edmonton, have served the school board with strike notice on Thursday and will be striking on Monday morning

Society

32 h. ago Seeking savings, Metro Vancouver board considers funding cuts to seven programs

Some Metro programs cost only a few cents per household each year, but would struggle to operate without it.

Other

33 h. ago Chantal Kreviazuk changes Canadian anthem lyric to protest Trump remarks

Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to The Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from 'in all of us command' to 'that only us command.'

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44 h. ago Sports groups slam smaller pool design for new Vancouver Aquatic Centre

The Vancouver Park Board says the five-decade-old pool has reached the end of its service life, and the facility has, in some cases, literally begun crumbling. 

Sport

50 h. ago Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky LLP Notifies Shareholders of a Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of Investors who Acquired Shares of Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ)

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, LLP (www.aftlaw.com), a nationally recognized securities fraud class action law firm announces that purchasers of Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) Class A common stock between February 26, 2020 and April 30, 2024, inclusive (the “Class Period”), have until March 18, 2025 to seek appointment […]

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51 h. ago Manitoba RCMP seek suspects following armed robbery in The Pas

After the robbery, the unidentified suspects allegedly shot up the home on Head Avenue. The victims, 64 and 72, weren't injured in the incident.

Events

53 h. ago 27,000 Toronto municipal workers will be in strike position next month

About 27,000 unionized municipal employees in Toronto could go on strike next month. The City of Toronto says it has received a no-board report from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, which would put the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 79 in a legal strike position, and the city in a legal lockout position, at […]

Politics

53 h. ago Sen. Mitch McConnell won’t seek reelection in 2026, ending tenure as power broker

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump. McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to […]

Politics

54 h. ago RCMP investigating two separate fires in Langley, Maple Ridge

The fire broke out shortly before 7 a.m. at a residence located at the 7000-block of 204 Street.

Events

57 h. ago Lorne Gunter: AHS investigation needs to be independent, transparent

But why would Mentzelopoulos have been fired just two days before meeting with Auditor General Doug Wylie? And why would the AHS board have been dismissed, all of them, after they began pushing for Mentzelopoulos’s documents to be turned over to the RCMP?

Economics

59 h. ago Bitget’s Liquidity Depth Analysis Highlights Competitive Edge in Crypto Trading

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, has collaborated with CryptoRank to conduct an in-depth comparative analysis of liquidity depth among the top five global centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXs): Binance, Bitget, Bybit, MEXC, and OKX. The research offers valuable insights into each platform’s ability to handle […]

Technology

66 h. ago Vancouver Aquatic Centre rebuild should have a smaller lap pool and larger hot tub, says park board staff

Swim B.C. president says the group is 'devastated' as the revised plan calls for a lazy river and 25-metre lap pool, rather than the 50-metre pool Vancouver voters backed in 2022

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67 h. ago Delta offers US$30,000 to each passenger on plane that crashed while landing in Toronto

Although some of the passengers were seriously injured, the airline says that the amount being offered is the same for every customer on board

Economics

69 h. ago RCMP discipline board accused of bias over ‘Three Amigos’ comment

A lawyer for three Coquitlam RCMP officers accused of sharing offensive messages in group chats wants the discipline panel hearing their case removed.

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