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The Canadian Football League has come under fire for replacing graphics designers and web developers with unpaid interns who are only given a nominal honourarium. The league’s hiring practices came to light after a fan posted the job advertisement on…
Realtors are earning record profits from surging house prices contributing to the nation's housing affordability crisis reaching “dangerous” levels, two recently released reports show. Operating revenue for the real estate agents and brokers industry group grew 10.8% from 2013 to…
Sexual interests and behaviours considered anomalous in psychiatry are common in the general population, according to a study published in The Journal of Sex Research . The study of 1,040 Quebeckers found that nearly half of all sample subjects engaged…
By Richard Koss According to recent reports, there are expectations from the Quebec government and from Bombardier that the federal government will match Quebec's contribution to Bombardier of $1 billion. That's $2 billion of taxpayers' money going to a company…
Alberta Tory interim leader Ric McIver has become a target of derision after blaming Alberta’s NDP government’s minimum wage policy for McDonald’s installing touchscreen self-service order kiosks across the province. “4 less AB jobs due to #NDP minimum wage policy,”…
By Leila Lemghalef A Statistics Canada study of public confidence in Canadian institutions during 2013 and 2014, released this morning, reveals that only a minority of Canadians trust media, Federal Parliament, and major corporations. The findings show that 40 per…
Four-in-five Canadians (79%) favour allowing physician-assisted suicide in Canada under the conditions stipulated by the Supreme Court of Canada, with only 15% being against the move, a new Canada-wide Insights West poll has found. In February, the Supreme Court ruled…
The world’s richest 10 percent produce around half of all emissions while the poorest half of the world’s population – 3.5 billion people – is responsible for just a tenth of all carbon emissions, despite being the most threatened by…
Refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war have started arriving in Calgary. The city is projected to take 10% of refugees coming into Canada. ThinkPol's Ryan Rumbolt finds out what Calgarians feel about the plan.…
By Leila Lemghalef Close to a third of Canadians struggle to make ends meet and are not saving for retirement, according to the latest Canadian Financial Capability Survey Managing Money and Planning for the Future . Too few Canadians are…