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Metro Vancouver condo prices plunge in April as COVID-19 pummels struggling market
Metro Vancouver condo prices tumbled again in April 2020 as the economic meltdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic kicked in the teeth a market already reeling from the insurance crisis. The OpenHousing House Price Index for condo properties – calculated
Canada Pension Plan invests in China’s tech giant accused of censorship, surveillance and facilitating Beijing’s human rights violations
Canada’s Pension Plan has become a major shareholder of Tencent Holdings Ltd, the Chinese tech giant who’s being accused of carrying out censorship and surveillance at Chinese Communist Party’s behest and aiding Beijing’s gross human rights violations. CPP now owns
Posting photoshopped food selfies on Instagram increases risk of eating disorders but not likes
Posting photoshopped food selfies on Instagram increases risk of eating disorders without increasing the number likes or comments such posts receive, new research reveals. Florida State University scientists found a consistent and direct link between posting edited photos on Instagram
Government subsidizing food processors to buy PPE for workers raises questions over Canada’s COVID-19 support for billionaire tax avoiders
The Government of Canada’s decision to provide $77.5 million funding for food processors to buy personal protective equipment(PPE) for their workers is raising questions about the propriety of subsidizing billionaire tax avoiders. “Genuinely puzzled,” former Toronto Mayor David Miller tweeted[1]https://twitter.com/iamdavidmiller/status/1257692706907869186.
Petition calling for Derek Sloan to resign gathers momentum
An online petition calling for the resignation of the embattled federal Tory MP Derek Sloan has collected nearly 14,000 signatures as of Monday. The petition accuses the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hastings—Lennox and Addington of “dangerous dog-whistling” fanning the
Complaint to CBC: Painting critics of China’s Communist Party as “racist” hurts real victims of racism
Dear CBC Ombudsman, I’m writing to you as a CBC Radio listener who wakes up every morning to The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. I have appeared numerous times on your news programs on radio and television. I’m a Canadian
Canada donated masks to China. Chinese mask makers now price-gouging Canada.
In early February, Canada donated 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles and gloves to China to help the Chinese doctors and nurses battling the original Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. But now as Canada
WHO forced to retract “false, irresponsible” statement after expert outcry
The World Health Organization has been forced to retract a statement claiming that there’s no evidence that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected. “Earlier today we tweeted about a new WHO scientific brief on “immunity passports”. The thread caused some
Foodora exiting Canada after couriers win right to unionize
Just two months after the Ontario Labour Relations Board cleared the way for Foodora couriers to unionize, the food-delivery app has announced it’s shutting shop in Canada. In an email sent to workers, Foodora announced that the last day of
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement donates PPEs to Canada’s healthcare workers
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement is teaming up with Toronto’s Hong Kong community to secure and donate personal protective equipment for healthcare workers in Canada, as Canadian health authorities grapple with a PPE shortfall that’s putting medical workers and vulnerable Canadians