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Housing advocate fears removing rent control will thwart plan to end homelessness
16 Oct 2026
The territorial government announced its endorsement of a community framework to end homelessness last week, shortly before the minister put forward a bill to scrap rent control and bring back no-cause evictions.
Work to repair Honoré-Mercier Bridge to Montreal slated for the weekend
16 Oct 2026
Quebec’s Transport Ministry is planning to repair the cracked beam under the Honoré-Mercier Bridge this weekend, during which time only one lane will be open in both directions.
Montreal announces $15.8M to modernize winter road maintenance operations
16 Oct 2026
Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada announced the city's winter road maintenance plan, which includes $13.3 million for the purchase of new equipment.
Federal government planning to build data centre in National Capital Region
16 Oct 2026
The federal government has issued advance notice that it's planning to design and construct a data center facility within the National Capital Region.
Inquest into death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet hears, sees woman's final moments
16 Oct 2026
A coroner's inquest into the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet has watched and listened to some of the 29-year-old woman's final moments before she fell to her death from a 24th-floor balcony.
Did Toronto actually fix Regent Park?
16 Oct 2026
Billions spent. Thousands displaced. CBC's Igor Petrov goes inside Canada's biggest public housing experiment to see if the massive revitalization of Toronto's Regent Park is a successful blueprint for urban renewal — or a failed experiment.
Local northern Ontario journalists break down key election issues in their communities
16 Oct 2026
It's municipal election season, and while the politicians campaign, journalists are busy making sense of it all. Here's what three newspaper journalists from across the region — Andrew Flynn, Alicia M
Police oppose some recommendations as inquest into death of First Nations teen shot by Winnipeg officer ends
16 Oct 2026
An inquest into the case of a 16-year-old First Nations girl who was shot to death by Winnipeg police has wrapped up.
Police charge 18-year-old man after motorcycle hits bus shelter, killing one
16 Oct 2026
Edmonton police have charged an 18-year-old man with dangerous driving causing death after a motorcycle crashed into a bus shelter Tuesday. The collision killed one man and injured three others, including a baby.
TSB: 'Incomplete' risk assessment led to 2022 B.C. plane crash that killed 3
16 Oct 2026
The plane reached 30 metres above sea level before it pitched down and crashed into the water, killing the pilot and two passengers.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
