When clients come in for advice about saving for their grandkids, financial planner Jason Heath says it’s usually about setting aside money for college. But with the housing market increasingly out of reach for many... read more
For many students and teachers across the country, the school year has looked a bit different from years past, as provinces have established policies to remove a common classroom distraction: the cellphone. Students are required... read more
Nearly half of all Canadians say their access to medical care has worsened over the last few years, with two-thirds experiencing what they consider an unreasonable wait for surgeries and other services, a new survey... read more
The last time that a generation of young adults moving back home was a news story, much mockery ensued. Remember “failure to launch,” or “boomerang kids?” The cliché of millennials living slothfully in their parents’... read more
For the 12 years that BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have co-owned 75 per cent of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, rumours have persisted about behind-the-scenes tensions between the corporate behemoths. So, when they... read more
First, authorities moved to seize a house on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island, bought for $1-million cash by the former spouse of a man accused of having ties to a global pump-and-dump stock scheme. Next,... read more
The Liberals lost yet another major by-election on Monday night, signalling that their Quebec base is at risk in the next federal election, while the New Democrats held onto their own stronghold in Winnipeg, in... read more
Tens of thousands of temporary residents who came to Canada as international students might be forced to return to their home countries in the next year – the result of a recent series of immigration policy changes that has... read more
Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book is Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, from which this essay has been adapted. Many experts warn that the rise of AI might result in the... read more
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pulling his party out of its supply-and-confidence agreement with the minority Liberal government, withdrawing automatic support on confidence votes and creating uncertainty for the Liberals less than two weeks before Parliament... read more
This fall, almost every province is rolling out new restrictions on cellphones in class. Many are in doubt about how rule-breakers will be punished, and the merits of the science behind the rules. Two years... read more
When COVID-19 restrictions lifted and Denise Gray’s kids, aged 14 and 12, were back at school, they began asking for money to go out for lunch. Frequently. “I would give them $10 a time and... read more
After much speculation, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday morning that her running mate would be Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota. The slate of potential candidates was whittled down over the past few days,... read more
Post-secondary students across Canada are skipping meals, relying on food banks and facing an increasing number of housing scams as they contend with skyrocketing rentals costs and a lack of on-campus housing. Meanwhile, colleges and... read more
Private security guards cleared the pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University on Wednesday, bringing an end to a campus protest that was among the first in a wave that spread across the country. The McGill protest calling for... read more
