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Harry Miller
Harry Miller is a writer and editor based in Toronto with 14 years of experience in the journalism industry. Before joining Canada News Media as a National Online Journalist, Miller worked as a senior writer and a reporter-editor with the Canadian Press and as a breaking news reporter with the Toronto Star. At Canada News Media he covers national news and the trending stories Canadians are searching for. Miller holds two bachelor's degrees, one in journalism from Ryerson University and another in communications and film studies from Carleton University.
Ottawa issued 3,500 permanent residence invitations to health and social services workers on Sept. 4. Provincial licensing, not immigration, is the slow step.
Cree filmmaker Georgina Lightning, 63, died Saturday after a horse veered off the track and struck her in the media area at an Alberta Indian Relay race.
Maurice Duplessis died Sept. 7, 1959, in Schefferville, the northern Quebec mining town he named himself. His death opened the way to the Quiet Revolution.
Average hourly wages rose 2.0 per cent in August while consumer prices climbed 3.0 per cent. For Canada’s lowest-paid quarter of workers, the gap was wider.
Service your snowblower in September, not after the first storm. A step-by-step pre-season tune-up for Canadian homeowners: fuel, oil, plugs, belts, pins.
Canadian shot putter Sarah Mitton opened with a 20.64-metre throw to finish second at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels, one of four Canadians entered in the season-ending meet at King Baudouin Stadium.
Trump’s Venezuela oil deal targets the U.S. Gulf Coast, which takes only about 10 per cent of Canadian crude exports. The numbers behind the alarm.
Ottawa spent $3,246 processing the average access to information request in 2024-25, and $67 per request at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Three federal registers reconcile to the dollar, and the 48-to-one gap has widened every year since 2022-23.
Protein Industries Canada is putting $2.2 million into AI for pulse disease forecasting and grain bin scanning. The problems both target are bigger than the cheque.
Across most of Canada the fall overseeding window runs from late August to about mid-September, and seed needs roughly 45 days of growing weather before hard frost. A step-by-step guide to timing, seed selection, soil contact, seeding rates and watering.