Author: Harry Miller

Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August while wage growth slowed to 2.0 per cent, the weakest since 2017, leaving the lowest-paid workers furthest behind inflation.

Ottawa’s $4.7B VIA Rail order promises 700 jobs at Alstom’s Thunder Bay plant, but the first cars aren’t due until 2031 and the plant cut 200 jobs in 2025.

Plant garlic four to six weeks before your soil freezes. A step-by-step guide to timing, seed selection, spacing, depth and mulch for Canadian gardens.

Dominion Dynamics’ $100M Series A is Canada’s largest defense-tech raise to date, a sign of where venture capital is flowing beyond the AI headlines.

Four Canadian golfers 18 and under made the cut at the CPKC Women’s Open in Edmonton — a tournament first, arriving amid a busy week for Canadian sport.

The Bank of Canada’s new vertical $20 note features King Charles III and the Vimy Memorial, with new security features, entering circulation starting in early 2027.

Quebec’s first-ever raccoon rabies case in a cat caps a stunning resurgence — from 93 cases in 2025 to 171 so far in 2026, two decades after the province thought it had eliminated the disease.

Bill C-14’s tougher penalties for copper theft took effect July 15 — but the 993 thefts Bell reported in H1 2026 all happened before the law existed, and the bill targeting scrap-yard resale remains stalled.

Canada’s Sept. 8 counter-tariffs echo the 2018-19 trade fight — which cost roughly 75,000 downstream manufacturing jobs against about 1,000 gained in steel.

Freeze your garden harvest the right way: wash, blanch, cool, and pack vegetables so they stay fresh, flavourful, and safe to eat all winter.