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As extreme weather events lead to the largest year on record for insurance claims, home insurance rates are on the rise. In 2025, home insurance rates have risen 5.28 per cent, well above the rate of inflation, according to a report published by My Choice Financial, a Canadian insurance aggregator and comparison website. This rise follows…
Tod Maffin of Nanaimo, B.C., said he got the idea one day while just scrolling through TikTok videos. Maffin, who has his own website called “far and wide news” had already produced a number of videos urging his viewers to “Buy Canadian” — so he thought, why not put together a TikTok video urging Americans…
This is a relaunch of a Global News series called ‘On the Brink,’ which profiles people who are struggling with the rising cost of living. In this story, an Ontario family talks about how rising prices are altering their traditions. Sharon McArthur loves to cook, but she misses being able to make a roast dinner…
A B.C. man wants Ford Canada to buyback his plug-in hybrid after the automaker notified him he can’t charge his vehicle due to a safety issue. Jason Turner says he had hoped his 2023 Ford Escape PHEV would save him money, but now his fuel bills are climbing while he waits for replacement parts. “I…
Hundreds of people across Canada, including several dozen in Edmonton, have lost more than a million dollars combined to a complex Amazon job scam with ties to international organized crime and human trafficking. Investigators with the Edmonton Police Service electronic response team began investigating in 2022 after receiving several complaints from people who fell victim…
A new round of U.S. tariffs hitting Canada’s auto sector is now in effect as President Donald Trump escalates his global trade war that has rattled markets and threatened industries across the world. At the same time, automaker Stellantis announced that it is halting production on its Windsor, Ont., manufacturing facility for two weeks. “Please…
As political tensions and health-care layoffs roil the United States, a surge of American doctors appears to be looking north for new opportunities — and provinces and Canadian recruiters are taking notice. With Canada’s doctor shortage still growing, provinces and health-care agencies are looking to tap into this interest, hoping to bring in more skilled…
A Saskatoon family says their trip to Mexico ended with them soaking up far more than just the sun. Brette Cowen and Andrew Hoffman were vacationing in Cancun with their child Lennox when they fell ill with suspected severe food poisoning, causing them to be removed from their WestJet flight home, they say. “I don’t think we…
Canadians are feeling record low levels of economic optimism and satisfaction in public services like housing and health care, a new analysis of Gallup polling suggests, presenting major challenges for whichever party forms government after the federal election. Tuesday’s report, presented as a series of “tests” for Canada’s next prime minister, compiled nearly two decades…
Ontario gas prices are plummeting with the federal consumer carbon price now scrapped. Tuesday marked the end of Ottawa’s consumer fuel charge after Mark Carney signed an order-in-council to remove it when he was sworn in as prime minister last month. The industrial carbon price remains in place. With the policy now in effect, gas…
