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'Heart breaks': Advocates say new disability benefit still leaves people in poverty
Advocates say a disability benefit that was supposed to be a historic move to lift people out of poverty turned out to be a disappointment in the federal budget. The new Canada Disability Benefit will provide a maximum of $2,400 a year—or $200 a month — for low-income people with disabilities. The benefit is expected to be given to about 600,000 people and won't kick in until July 2025. Rabia Khedr, national director of Disability Without Poverty, says the benefit falls far short of what it inte
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Chance for rotating storms with today's thunderstorm threat in southern Ontario
You'll want to remain weather aware across southern Ontario on Wednesday, with rounds of rain and thunderstorms pushing into the region. Some storms have the potential to reach severe limits
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10 years in U.S. prison for Canadian man who stole millions with fake psychic fraud
MONTREAL — A former Montreal resident was sentenced earlier this week to 10 years in a United States federal prison for a multi-decade fraud that manipulated more than one million Americans into sending money to fake psychics. Patrice Runner, 57, was convicted of 14 charges, including mail fraud and wire fraud, in June 2023 after a trial in a New York Federal Court. Runner, a Canadian and French citizen, was found to have stolen more than $175 million from 1.3 million people in the U.S. between
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Peas, walnuts and golf balls: here’s what hailstone size means for damage
Hail is one of nature’s most destructive forces, especially on the Prairies
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Capital gains are going to be taxed more, and these economists say it's a good thing
OTTAWA — Canada's wealthiest individuals and corporations will soon pay taxes on a larger share of the capital gains they earn, a change that economists say will make the tax system more efficient, despite pushback from business groups. The federal budget presented Tuesday proposes taxing two-thirds rather than one-half of capital gains — which refers to profit made on the sale of assets. The increase in the so-called inclusion rate would apply to capital gains above $250,000 for individuals, an
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Officer in charge tells inquest everything possible was done to save B.C. hostage
BURNABY, B.C. — The officer in charge when police in Surrey, B.C., killed a hostage taker and the woman he was holding says he believes he did everything possible to save her. RCMP Insp. Blair White told a coroner's inquest the suspect, Randy Crosson, gave officers a deadline on when he would kill Nona McEwan, and a mental-health professional working with police believed the man wanted to die. White says the call to the home on March 2019 was the hardest case he was ever involved with because Cr
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CAQ whip resigns from caucus to run for Conservatives in next federal election
QUEBEC — The Quebec government whip has quit the Coalition Avenir Québec and will join the federal Conservatives, leaving the province's ruling party wondering whether its current slump in the polls will lead to more departures. Eric Lefebvre announced on Tuesday he would sit as an Independent in the Quebec legislature before he runs with the Conservatives under leader Pierre Poilievre in the next federal election, which has to be held by October 2025. On Wednesday, Poilievre wrote on X that he
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