The Great Toronto Area housing market is becoming more balanced as May home sales dropped 39 per cent from a year earlier and prices rose almost 10 per cent, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board said Friday. The Ontario board found last month’s home sales totaled 7,283, down from 11,903 in May 2021 and 7,989 this past April. The board […]
Ontario is reporting 669 hospitalizations and eight more deaths linked to COVID-19 on Friday. Friday’s reported hospitalizations are slightly down from 670 on Thursday and down from 948 exactly one week ago. According to the Ministry of Health, 42 per cent of those hospitalized were admitted specifically for the virus, while the rest were admitted for other reasons and then […]
Government officials provide an update on COVID-19 and answer questions on other emerging public health concerns, including monkeypox.
The US added 390,000 jobs last month as employers agreed to pay raises to make sure they have enough workers to keep up in a strong economy. The Department of Labor said the jobless rate held steady at 3.6 per cent, just barely above the 50-year low of 3.5 per cent it reached in the months before the pandemic. Businesses […]
Military police in Canada have tried to transfer 62 sexual assault cases to civilian police forces since last fall — but about half of those files have been declined and sent back. The Canadian Armed Forces released new figures in response to requests from CBC News and the release of a blistering independent report on the military’s ongoing sexual misconduct […]
The word “polycrisis” has been used before to describe an intersection of troubling economic and political events, but Jacqueline Best suggests we are living through an episode that may really warrant the designation. As the Bank of Canada struggled this week to what anger at soaring prices with a half-point jump in interest rates, Best — a political historian who […]
A sternly worded internal email, apparently sent by Elon Musk ordering Tesla employees to either return to the office or leave, is raising a lot of eyebrows in a time when employees are increasingly seeking flexible work arrangements. In a screenshot of the emailshared on Twitter, the richest man in the world warns employees at his electric car company that […]
Ottawa is moving toward ending distribution of COVID-19 rapid tests to the provinces and territories by the end of the year, CBC News has learned, but it will maintain a strategic reserve of the tests. “As we approach the next phase of our COVID-19 response, we will continue to support provinces and territories by providing rapid tests until December 2022,” […]
CBC News brings all of the election results and expert analysis as Ontarians head to the polls.
An “isolated case” of monkeypox has been confirmed in Alberta, the province’s chief medical officer of health said Thursday. Dr. Deena Hinshaw posted on Twitter that the Alberta case had close contact with a known case outside the province. Hinshaw did not say where in the province the infected individual lives. She said no identifying information about the person will […]
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