Electrical

[published_date] Ottawa is expected to miss its 2026 deadline to implement $10-a-day child care services across the country, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives said in a new report published on Wednesday. The analysis concluded that just six provinces and territories are meeting that fee target now. David Macdonald, an economist with the centre, said…

[published_date] Canadians are being drained of their life savings by scammers — and many are shocked when their banks refuse to reimburse them. Bank fraud is a significant concern in Canada, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. Every week, Go Public hears from people whose accounts have been emptied by fraudsters using everything from phishing…

[published_date] Nova Scotia's universities are planning cuts, program reviews and tuition increases to grapple with budget shortfalls over the coming year. All of the province's large universities are planning to run a deficit in 2025-26. The troubled times come amid a significant drop in international enrolment, a government-mandated tuition freeze for some students and stagnating provincial funding.…

[published_date] Mining company Sio Silica has offered Brokenhead Ojibway Nation a five per cent share of profits from its proposed sand-extraction operation, promising the Winnipeg-area First Nation $20 million in annual revenue once the project is operating at full capacity. The Alberta-based company, whose plan to extract up to 33 million tonnes of high-grade silica from…

[published_date] A series of AI-generated videos that show a white man complaining about how difficult it is to get a job in Canada have been taken down by TikTok, following inquiries made by the CBC News Visual Investigations team. The social media platform says the videos violated its community guidelines, because it wasn't clear enough that they…

[published_date] One person is dead and more than 40 people have become ill in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease in London, Ont. The Middlesex-London Health Unit, which declared the outbreak, said the cases were reported within the last week. Most of the people with the severe respiratory illness live and/or work within a six-kilometre radius of one another, in…

[published_date] The man who was charged with second-degree murder after a public attack in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday was convicted of uttering threats and choking that same day. James Edward Plover was charged in relation to the death of Bailey Plover in what Kelowna RCMP called a "highly visible and tragic event" on Friday at…

[published_date] Coldplay kicked off their four-night takeover of Toronto's Rogers Stadium on Monday, and although fans seemed to have a better experience inside the new venue than at last week's inaugural show, a crowd management expert suggests there's still room for improvement. Kevin Kennedy, crowd management expert and the owner of Kennedy Crowd Safety Solutions,…

[published_date] A new report from a group of more than 30 experts says a population of endangered killer whales off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state is showing no sign of recovery under current conditions. There is an "urgent need for more robust actions" to save the southern resident killer whales from extinction, says…

[published_date] The surface temperature in the western basin of Lake Erie is currently 26 C, and in some places, it's more than 30 C, according to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). The average temperature for the lake on July 31 is around 24 C, according to data on NOAA's website. …

[published_date] Police say an explosive device that blew open the door of a British Columbia cabinet minister's constituency office in North Vancouver was "unsophisticated" and "homemade." Cpl. Mansoor Sahak with the North Vancouver RCMP said the device was likely a number of bear bangers or fireworks taped together and lit by a fuse.  The explosive…

[published_date] One of Hudson's Bay's biggest lenders says the department store chain has handled its liquidation so badly that a court should end a buzzy but fraught lease transaction the retailer signed with a B.C. billionaire and subject the company to even more oversight as it winds down. A motion filed Tuesday by Restore Capital…