With fewer Canadians working from home full-time, the “era of shorter commuting times has come to an end,” according to Statistics Canada. The new data, released Monday, showed that as of May, the average commute time had reached 26.4 minutes, on par with the previously recorded high of 26.3 minutes seen in May 2016. The…
In February 2022, an inspector with the City of Vancouver arrived at a business to find a sign outside reading “mushroom dispensary, psychedelics, coca leaf, kratom, peyote, LSD, DMT.” Inside the Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary at 651 East Hastings St., the inspector saw a counter with a sign that said “Coca Leaf Café,” with more signage advertising…
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the U.S. Open after dropping a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 decision to 18-year-old Jakub Menšík of the Czech Republic in first-round action Tuesday in New York. Menšík scored his sixth break in the final game of the match, with Auger-Aliassime committing his 36th unforced error on match point. Auger-Aliassime, seeded 19th in New…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 27, 2024 1:11 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec government says it wants to put an end to illegal dumping in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake northwest of Montreal. The Environment Department says “field interventions” are planned this week involving…
An upcoming byelection in Montreal will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections, breaking a record set earlier this summer in Toronto. At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept. 16 byelection in LaSalle—Emard—Verdun, according to Elections Canada. Seventy-nine of them are linked to the Longest Ballot…
Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach after making his name winning trophies at club level in Italy, Portugal and Sweden, died Monday. He was 76. Eriksson died at home surrounded by his family, his agent Bo Gustavsson told The Associated Press. His death followed eight…
The B.C. government has set the maximum allowable rent increase for next year. Starting Jan. 1, landlords will be able to raise rents by a maximum of three per cent, which is down from 3.5 per cent for this current year. The province says next year’s maximum allowable rent increase is tied to the rate…
Traffic at Canada’s two largest railways is slated to resume Monday as a rail work stoppage comes to an end following a Saturday decision from the federal labour board. Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City shut down railways last Thursday, locking out workers and disrupting freight traffic countrywide and commuter lines in…
Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis set new world records and Canada’s Marco Arop ran to a meeting record on Sunday at a Diamond League event in Chorzow, Poland. Ingebrigtsen won the men’s 3,000 metres event in a world-record time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds. The time eclipses the previous mark of…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 24, 2024 5:06 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A once stuck 138-metre cargo ship near Montreal has now been freed. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says two tugboats successfully towed the Dutch ship that had been blocking traffic in the St. Lawrence…
