Climate goals could make gas heating obsolete. So why do gas companies keep adding customers? Building more gas infrastructure is like investing in video rental stores 15 years ago, says expert (www.cbc.ca)
Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result (www.cbc.ca)
Quebec's housing crisis goes beyond supply and demand, says new report (www.cbc.ca)
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Climate change simulator tool draws gasps, even tears from P.E.I. residents (www.cbc.ca)
The Netherlands generates way more solar power than Canada. Here's how they do it - Global investment in solar power now tops all other energy generation technologies combined, says IEA (www.cbc.ca)
While Canada lags behind in solar adoption, many places including Germany, China, Japan and even the United States are moving quickly....
Cash transactions are way down. These advocates say the feds need to do something (www.cbc.ca)
A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society....
Can a diet that's good for the planet reduce your risk of dying from disease? (www.cbc.ca)
Is it OK to choose 'no tip' at the counter? Some customers think so (www.cbc.ca)
Day 6 Behind the anger on the Reddit Canada site (www.cbc.ca)
Interesting insights into how controlled the narrative is in /r/canada on Reddit. One of the things that struck me was that there’s no self posts in /r/canada unlike many other countries’ and provinces’ subreddits. It would be nice if we differentiated ourselves here on Lemmy with more self posts
How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers (www.cbc.ca)
Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba (www.cbc.ca)
The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....
This woman pays 100% of her income on rent (www.cbc.ca)
Gig workers in B.C. to be paid minimum of $20.88 an hour (www.cbc.ca)
Poilievre says Tories will vote against capital gains tax hike, calls it a 'job killer' (www.cbc.ca)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday his party will oppose the government’s proposed capital gains inclusion rate increase — a tax hike that is projected to pull in roughly $19 billion in new revenue....
Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Paris' Seine River under 2 months before Olympics (www.cbc.ca)
Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday....
Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room (www.cbc.ca)
The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit’s at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local...
Trudeau says he considered stepping down during marriage difficulties (www.cbc.ca)
Canadians who have lost their sense of smell say it's misunderstood, undervalued — and deserves more attention (www.cbc.ca)
For millennia, the sense of smell has been widely undervalued — ranked far below vision by the likes of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. In 2021, a survey in the journal Brain Sciences found that people consistently ranked smell below vision and hearing — and even below commercial products. One quarter of college students...
He can't afford to rent an apartment. So this man secretly sleeps in an office (www.cbc.ca)
A man in St. John’s rents office space, but he doesn’t have an office job....
Alberta government calls bill about backing up environmental claims an 'agenda to create chaos' (www.cbc.ca)
That legislation is Bill C-59, which would require companies to provide evidence to back up their environmental claims. It is currently awaiting royal assent....
Conservative MP shares inaccurate, ChatGPT-generated stats on capital gains tax rate (www.cbc.ca)
With Trudeau on the ropes, Liberals contemplate the next election with hope and anxiety (www.cbc.ca)
The polls are not good for the Liberals — in fact, they’re struggling to overcome the 15 to 20-point gap that separates them from the Conservatives. But those close to the prime minister like to point out that their leader is used to being underestimated and performs well under pressure....
B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations (www.cbc.ca)
A B.C. coal mining company in northeastern B.C. has been fined more than $45,000 for repeated violations of the province’s environmental protection rules, including the failure to monitor mine waste into fish-bearing water and failure to limit particulate being put into the air....