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Bullet holes and police raids: Former real estate agent investigated for allegedly subletting to criminals
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 13, 2025
A former Lower Mainland real estate agent is under investigation by B.C.'s real estate regulator after his name allegedly turned up last year as the 'tenant' for multiple properties linked to a major Vancouver Police Department (VPD) gang...
Canadian Government Just Issued A 3-Step Advisory Plan For Travel To Los Angeles
The Travel
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June 13, 2025
The Canadian government has issued important travel advice in recent days. Costa Rica has been issued another travel warning, while the United States also has another updated advisory. U.S. government officials pushed back on Canada's recent...
Canada’s largest off-grid solar project breaks ground
pv-magazine
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June 13, 2025
The Anahim Lake Solar Farm in British Columbia, Canada, will provide the Ulkatcho First Nation with renewable energy, reducing the remote community’s use of diesel for electricity generation by almost two-thirds. June 13, 2025 Patrick Jowett Work...
Canada’s most beautiful village is this historic jewel in Ontario that’s like stepping back in time
Toronto.com
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I know we’re all busy and I’m sure the summer schedule is starting to fill up with fun, but if you don’t have plans to visit “Canada’s most beautiful village,” you may want to include it in your lineup of activities. It is in Southeastern Ontario...
Canada’s sanctions on Israeli MKs a ‘powerful symbol’ with ‘limited impact’
The Canadian Jewish News
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June 13, 2025
On June 10, Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand announced that the country is joining four other nations in imposing travel and economic sanctions against two extreme-right wing Israeli politicians over their involvement in West Bank settler...
Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill?
The Guardian
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June 13, 2025
Canada got duped. We avoided electing an outright Trump sympathiser, but we still elected a prime minister who will align our policies with the United States. Despite all the anti-Trump rhetoric and celebration of the idea that Canada was...
JLL, Breakfast Club of Canada kick off 2025 campaign to fuel kids’ nutrition
ConstructConnect
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June 13, 2025
MONTREAL — JLL has launched its 2025 campaign in support of Breakfast Club of Canada, which marks a significant milestone of raising over $1 million since the partnership began in 2015. The year-long campaign will involve various fundraising...
AtkinsRéalis the latest construction company to sponsor an F1 team
Construction Briefing
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June 13, 2025
Image: BWT Alpine Formula One Team/Renault SAS Canada-based construction and engineering consultancy AtkinsRéalis has become the latest company from the construction industry to sponsor a Formula One racing team. AtkinsRéalis said it would partner...
She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry
The Walrus
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June 13, 2025
Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received almost universal acclaim. And nowhere because,...
Mental Scars: The Toll of Solitary Confinement in Canada
Medscape
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Fallon Venessa-Lynne Aubee, a Métis-Cree French transgender woman, has lost count of the number of times she spent in administrative segregation within Canada’s federal penitentiary system. It started when she was first arrested in 2001 and...
N.W.T. wants to use federal housing funds to demolish derelict homes
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 13, 2025
An N.W.T. deputy minister says the territorial government is hoping to use federal housing money to clear derelict homes from communities. The structures are falling into disrepair, and some contain dangerous materials like asbestos. Gary Brennan,...
Deachman: Should new housing be built on iconic Sussex Drive?
Ottawa Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News Columnists The NCC, which so far hasn't managed to refurbish 24 Sussex, wants to liven up the street. Some residents oppose the idea. But what do we have to lose? John McNee is head of Friends of Sussex Drive, a...
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: Who wants to live here edition
Pittsburgh City Paper
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June 13, 2025
click to enlarge Photo: Courtesy of Zillow 3722 Millerton Ave. For a long time, I have tried to imagine what sort of person would be attracted to live in Pittsburgh, absent some sort of ancestral connection to the place (or terminal-stage Steelers...
New $70M fund brings fresh capital to Western Canada's real estate market
The Squamish Chief
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June 12, 2025
Cameron Stephens eyes high-yield mortgage opportunities in B.C. and Alberta as investors shift toward private credit A Toronto-based investment firm has launched a new $70-million fund to invest into commercial real estate mortgages in Western...
ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada lays off all 153 employees in Hamilton, Ont., closes mill
Canadian Manufacturing
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June 13, 2025
The decision will be putting all 153 employees out of work. CONTRECOEUR — ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada (AMLPC) announces a restructuring of its wire drawing activities that aims to help it survive amid the trade war with its wire drawing...
Canadian construction industry handcuffed by tariff uncertainty
Windsor Star
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June 12, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Business Local News Published Jun 12, 2025 • Last updated 28 minutes ago • 4 minute read Scott D'Amore of the D'Amore Group is shown on Wednesday, June 12, 2025 at the construction site of a large hotel/plaza project on the...
WSP swoops for construction consulting rival Ricardo
Consultancy.org
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June 13, 2025
International consultancy WSP has struck a deal to purchase Ricardo. The move for the London-listed firm will conclude for £281 million. Founded over a century ago, Ricardo is a UK-headquartered professional services firm focused on the...
Canada’s Sure Spending a Lot on F-35’s
Esquire
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June 11, 2025
Before we get to Wednesday’s episode of Prague ’68 II: L.A. Boogaloo, we should check on another of our favorite accounts here at the shebeen—namely that of the F-35 strike fighter, aka the Flying Swiss Army Knife, aka the Great Money Pit in the...
Real Estate & Construction Briefs – June 2025
Tri Cities Area Journal of Business - Washington State
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June 12, 2025
Michaels buys beleaguered Joann Craft retailer Michaels is looking to woo the customers of former rival Joann, purchasing the bankrupt competitor’s brands and intellectual property. Texas-based Michaels announced its acquisition on June 5, noting...
How I’d Invest $32,000 in Canadian Value Stocks to Maximize My Investment Potential
The Motley Fool Canada
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June 13, 2025
Here are a bunch of Canadian value stocks that trade at attractive valuations and provide a good mix of income and growth potential. With $32,000 to invest, I’m not looking to chase high-flying tech names or gamble on speculative plays. Instead,...