Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Paul Welch
Publication Date: April 4, 2025 - 08:09
Modern living: Rebooting the affordable housing cause
April 4, 2025
If you’re looking for a quick fix to Canada’s shortage of affordable homes, Carolyn Whitzman has sobering news for you. “I think that Canada’s housing crisis is eminently fixable,” says Whitzman, an Ottawa housing and social policy researcher and the author of the 2024 book Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis. “But the first thing […]
Unpublished Newswire
The RCMP say they have dismantled three illicit drug labs in Metro Vancouver and arrested two suspects after nearly two years of investigation.The Mounties held a news conference Thursday afternoon at their B.C. headquarters in Surrey to display some of the pricey equipment seized and announce the raids of three drug labs at the end of last month in the suburbs of Pitt Meadows, Mission and Aldergrove. Police say two of the illicit drug labs are believed to have been used to produce fentanyl, but the purpose of the third lab remains “undetermined.”
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April 10, 2025 - 22:08 | Carrie Tait, Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday for his response to a protester’s comments on Gaza.Mr. Carney had just taken the stage at a rally in Calgary on Tuesday evening when a protester shouted: “There is a genocide happening in Palestine!”
April 10, 2025 - 22:06 | Andrea Woo, Nojoud Al Mallees | The Globe and Mail
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