Want to buy Canadian? There's an app for that
February 21, 2025
Wouldn't it be great if your phone could just magically tell you whether the products you want to buy are Canadian or not? Well, now it can — thanks to savvy entrepreneurs across the country who've created apps to meant to help shoppers identify the origin of everyday staples.
Unpublished Newswire
First you hear the sirens, reminiscent of an air raid warning: dee-duh, dee-duh, dee-duh. Then an armada of trucks, awesome in scale and might. Private property is impounded; residents run scared.It is not a military invasion – not exactly – but the routine process of snow removal, or déneigement, in Montreal. This unsnowing, to translate literally, is one of the most impressive such efforts in the world – even more so this week when Montreal was buried under the heaviest four-day snowfall on record.
February 21, 2025 - 20:27 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Steve Stinchcombe was in his living room combing through prospective jobs for his company, Sechelt Glass, when the strong shaking began on British Columbia’s South Coast early Friday afternoon.He immediately worried about the hundreds of panes of glass propped up all around his property. Thankfully, the ferocity of the estimated 5.4 magnitude earthquake – which had an epicentre about 24 kilometres northwest of him – dissipated within a couple seconds and the smaller tremors tapered off shortly thereafter.
February 21, 2025 - 20:26 | Mike Hager, Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
The members of an RCMP disciplinary tribunal tasked with hearing allegations of sexism and racism against a trio of Coquitlam Mounties say they don't need to step aside for having referred to the men as the "Three Amigos."
February 21, 2025 - 20:22 | | CBC News - Canada
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