Canada’s reliance on food banks has soared to a grim new milestone, according to data from Food Banks Canada.The organization says it recorded more than two million visits in March 2024 – nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019, and six per cent above last year’s record-breaking figure.
October 28, 2024 - 07:38 | Cassandra Szklarski | The Globe and Mail
Justin Trudeau is supposed to respond Monday to a group of Liberal MPs demanding his resignation as party leader, but the prime minister has already made his plans clear.
October 28, 2024 - 07:30 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A major amusement park is part of Ontario’s grand vision to turn the Niagara region into Las Vegas north, but Marineland may not fit the bill, the provincial tourism minister says.Stan Cho says his ministry has not spoken to the sprawling attraction, which is currently for sale and sits on 1,000 acres a short distance from Horseshoe Falls.
October 28, 2024 - 07:27 | Liam Casey | The Globe and Mail
After four decades, the Yangtze restaurant on Somerset Street is closing. Robyn Bresnahan meets its manager to find out why, what’s next and what its closure means to the families who’ve been eating there through the generations.
October 28, 2024 - 07:11 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Toronto police say a suspect vehicle involved in a downtown shooting Sunday night that left one person seriously injured crashed into an Etobicoke school and caught fire.
October 28, 2024 - 07:08 | Phil Tsekouras | CTV News - Canada
University students who are studying to become teachers could correctly answer only 60 per cent of the questions on phonics, according to a new survey that highlights how equipped future educators are to teach children how to read.The results, shared with The Globe and Mail, showed that the student teachers could answer 64 per cent of questions on phonological awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate the speech sounds in language. And they correctly answered only 35 per cent of the questions on morphological awareness, which is the ability to identify how words are...
October 28, 2024 - 07:00 | Caroline Alphonso | The Globe and Mail