Alberta woman dies after being denied transplant for refusing to get COVID vaccine ( nationalpost.com )
'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....
Why aren’t health warnings on cigarettes expanded to alcohol? ( rabble.ca )
Canada ranked as 2nd best country in the world. ( www.cicnews.com )
Despite what Canada’s nation hating extreme right would have you believe.
Jordan Peterson learns that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences ( rabble.ca )
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....
Canada's landlords now asking a record-breaking average of $2,078 per month: rental report ( www.ctvnews.ca )
According to a new report from Rentals, In July, the Canadian rental market hit a record high with an average asking rent of $2,078, marking an 8.9 per cent annual increase.
Canada’s birth rate has dropped off a cliff (and it’s likely because nobody can afford housing) ( nationalpost.com )
Statistics Canada confirmed last week that 351,679 babies were born in 2022 — the lowest number of live births since 345,044 births were recorded in 2005....
Anti-LGTBQ “Million March For Children” outnumbered by “Billion March For Not Being Bigots” ( www.thebeaverton.com )
Far-Right Activists are Planning an Anti-Sex-Ed Convoy Targeting Alberta Teachers’ Association Building ( pressprogress.ca )
Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies? ( www.cbc.ca )
The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links....
Canada likely sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time: Strategist - BNN Bloomberg ( www.bnnbloomberg.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.
Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi ( www.politico.eu )
Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on....
A Toronto landlord is banning electric vehicles on its property. Tenants' advocates say that's 'unreasonable' ( www.cbc.ca )
Millennials set to face most economic pain in months ahead, RBC says. Here’s why - National | Globalnews.ca ( globalnews.ca )
Older millennials, adults aged 35 to 44, had debt-to-disposable income ratios around 250 per cent in 2019, while Freestone noted that metric was roughly 150 per cent for the same age group in 1999....
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 )
Canada wants to make homes affordable without crushing prices ( www.bnnbloomberg.ca )
In a country with some of the world’s most expensive real estate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government wants housing to become more affordable.
Increasing number of Canadians want to reconsider ties to monarchy, survey suggests ( www.winnipegfreepress.com )
Non-Paywall Article
Almost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque as Tory support grows: poll ( www.winnipegfreepress.com )
Non-Paywall Article
Every developer has opted to pay Montreal instead of building affordable housing, under new bylaw ( www.cbc.ca )
Two years after Valérie Plante’s administration said a new housing bylaw would lead to the construction of 600 new social housing units per year, the city hasn’t seen a single one....
Canada will ban aerosol WD-40 in 2024 ( www.westernstandard.news )
Almost every Canadian has a spray can of WD-40 in the garage, but that's about to change....
It's not your imagination: Companies are more willing to raise their prices now — and it's because we let them ( www.cbc.ca )
Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.
Canada faces declining EV interest, report shows, despite push to boost sales ( globalnews.ca )
The data found about 68 per cent of car shoppers in 2022 who did not own an EV showed an intent to purchase one, but that dropped to 56 per cent this year.
Canada wants to make cows burp less to fight climate change ( globalnews.ca )
The federal government is proposing financial incentives for farmers in lieu of cutting enteric methane emissions that are released in the air when cows burp.
