Electric vehicles were considered the way of the future just five short years ago. Today, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and EV battery plants is waning both in Canada and globally due to a wide range of factors. Some of the issues cited in consumer surveys on purchasing EVs include the substantial cost disparity
The mayor of a Vancouver Island community hiring doctors as city employees says it is “very close” to signing two more physicians for its clinic even as other communities inquire about replicating its model. Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi says the city’s clinic currently has one doctor on staff, another is due to arrive in September,
A candidate for the Conservative Party in the election has been targeted by a Beijing-linked transnational repression operation conducted through social media, Canada’s elections security task force says. Officials from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force provided details on April 21 about the operation directed at Tory candidate Joe Tay, who
Commentary Pope Francis is dead. May he rest in peace. But his Church lives on, as does a strange fascination with it on the part of people who are not Roman Catholics or remotely sympathetic. Thus, the New York Sun emailed, “Why So Many Non-Catholics Will Be Watching This Conclave.” So what is it about
Liberal Leader Mark Carney has presented key planks of his health-care platform which includes $4 billion in new funding to build health-care infrastructure, as well as a plan to increase the number of doctors in the country through various measures such as increasing spaces in medical schools. Carney made the announcement while visiting Charlottetown on
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his government would increase Canada’s housing supply by 2.3 million homes over the next five years through a combination of measures announced throughout the election campaign. The Conservatives plan to complete 305,000 housing starts in the first year of governing, 352,000 in the second year, 405,000 in the third, 465,000
Elections Canada is responding to concerns that voters who use a pencil to cast their votes could leave their ballot open to potential tampering. The agency took to social media over the weekend to respond to posts on social media platform X that encouraged Canadians to bring their own pen or marker to the ballot
As advance polling entered the third day on April 20, the Conservatives pledged to eliminate the “inflation tax” while the NDP said it will introduce laws to prevent “price gouging” at grocery stores. The Liberals held a rally in the Ottawa-riding of Nepean and reiterated that the upcoming April 28 election is a critical moment
A fire broke out early Sunday morning on the grounds of an ArcelorMittal industrial site in the Montérégie region of Quebec. The fire began around 4 a.m. among scrapped vehicles on the site, according to the city of Contrecoeur, where the company has several steel facilities. The community is located about 50 kilometres northeast of
The mattresses many infants and children sleep on could be giving off toxic chemicals harmful to their health, according to scientists at the University of Toronto. Looking at a variety of lower-cost children’s mattresses, the authors of two related studies found that semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) were present in the sleep microenvironments (SMEs) of children.