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Skip the January furnace breakdown: learn when to change your filter, how to check the size and airflow arrow, and how often Canadian homes need it.
Toronto’s own before-and-after study found Bloor Street’s bike lanes cut cycling injuries 56% — data left out as Ford’s government begins removing them.
Canada’s fuel excise tax and its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods both take effect September 8 — a costly coincidence nobody has connected yet.
On Sept. 1, 1980, Terry Fox was forced to stop his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope near Thunder Bay, Ont., after cancer spread to his lungs, 5,373 km in.
Ottawa’s new $150 disability benefit top-up starts Sept. 1 to offset DTC costs — but the law capping those same fees has sat frozen in court since 2021.
On Sept. 1, 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan joined Canada — but the man who fought hardest for provincehood was frozen out of leading either one.
As the five-year Disaggregated Data Action Plan concludes and Budget 2025 flags Statistics Canada for a 15% cut, neither the agency nor Finance Canada will specify what happens to the program built to measure anti-Black and anti-Indigenous disparities.
Protect your mower’s engine from a Canadian winter with these expert-backed steps for fuel, oil, the blade, and proper storage before the snow flies.
The $150 CDB top-up covers Disability Tax Credit fees, but a federal ombudsperson found CRA approval waits run nearly double its own standard.
Carney’s Liberals swept three byelections Monday, but the real story is a Senate appointment and floor crossings that built this majority — and what it means for Poilievre.












