Canada

The federal government is prepared to spend $196,1 billion on health care over the next decade, including $46.2 billion in new spending on top of funds already budgeted, announced Prime Minister Trudeau at the awaited Feb 7 meeting with local governments

PM Trudeau will host a first ministers' meeting in Ottawa on Feb 7th as his government looks to finalize a deal on health-care funding with the provinces, who have been demanding a meeting to press him for a multibillion-dollar increase to the funding

Home prices likely won't drop much further due to the country's ongoing shortage of new homes, even as rising interest rates curb some demand in the market, according to the deputy chief economist for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Restaurants and the food industry debut new takeout ware and packaging amid phase-in of federal single-use plastics ban that aims at removing many single-use plastics from the market gradually until 2025

Storm in Canada has left tens of thousands in the dark through Christmas, more have been stranded by poor travel conditions or flight cancellation and two Ontario regions have declared state of emergency

The average rent surpassed $2.000 for the first time ever in November, up 12,4% over November 2021 far outpacing Canada's inflation rate of 6,9%; the figure covers all types of housing from bachelor apartments to detached homes

Canada’s jobless rate fell to 5,1% per cent in November; the Bank of Canada is viewing the labour market as still too hot for comfort

Canadian investors have lost $131 billion, around $4.000 per capita, as a result of losses sustained by 183 publicly traded cannabis companies, according to a new report from a Toronto-based law firm

Amid a national shortage, emergency supplies of pain and fever medication for kids are expected to arrive soon at hospitals, overwhelmed by respiratory illnesses; observers say more should be done to guard against future drug shortages

The province of Britush Columbia has made permanent a temporary ban on rat poison over concerns the poison is inadvertently killing owls, among other wildlife who feed on poisoned rats

Hockey Canada announces the CEO and entire board of directors have been dismissed following political and corporate pressure about the handling of an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 men's national junior team

Researchers suspect Chinese hackers to have tampered with a widely used chat software distributed by a small Canadian customer service company