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"As an infectious diseases specialist I never would have guessed this was going to happen because measles is supposed to be eradicated."

Late last year, multiple tenants in small apartment buildings around Halifax got similar letters from their new landlord, stating their leases would soon be terminated. But no reasons were given.

This didn't sit right with Amanda Rose, who has been renting her one-bedroom apartment in the city's north end for almost six years.

Sydnee Blum, a community legal worker with Dalhousie Legal Aid Service in Halifax, said she's representing one of the tenants in the appeal. Blum estimates up to 24 tenants of PreCor Property Management are impacted.

"When it's happening to multiple buildings at a time, this is, to us, part of a systematized effort to evict long-term tenants, do cosmetic upgrades on a building and then rent them for higher rents," Blum said.

Nova Scotia's Registry of Joint Stocks shows the director, president, and secretary of PreCor Property Management is Mitchell Hollohan, whose business address is listed in Halifax.

Chidi Nwagbo says he made a "stupid" decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee.

The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration raids sweeping the U.S. He says the smugglers lied to him about the dangers of the journey that almost killed him along the borderlands between New York State and Quebec in February of this year.

"If I had known that this would have been the outcome, I don't think I would have done it," said Nwagbo in a phone interview with CBC News from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre in Batavia, N.Y.

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But a Reddit post from 11 days ago from an apparent Rogers employee affected, claimed they were one of the more than 1,000 laid-off agents paints a different picture.

“I am a part of the 1000+ agents in Roger’s that are getting laid off and I would like us to be heard and actually have a voice for once,” the person wrote.

They claimed they were told to stay silent. “Why has management specifically told us to stay quiet and not to go to the media about this? Because they know this is wrong on so many levels.”

The post accuses Rogers of using workers to train an AI tool introduced last year—under the pretense of helping them—only to later replace them with it. “We were exploited and taken advantage of,” the employee claims.

On this day 35 years ago, a SWAT team, a paramilitary force, attacked a peaceful barricade in the Kanehsatà:ke pine forest — a barricade meant to protect the more than 200-year-old trees from being cut for the expansion of the nine-hole Oka Golf Club and condo development. The development would have seen the removal of our sacred burial ground to expand the parking lot of the country club.

For 78 days the peoples of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawake defended “the Pines,” a white pine forest claimed by the Mohawks of Kanesatake. We were under siege, denied food, medicine and the free passage of people by order of the Sureté du Quebec, the provincial police force, endorsed by the Quebec and Canadian governments.

Our fundamental human rights were violated daily by the SQ and the Canadian military — and we were publicly labelled as criminals for opposing a golf course expansion that was approved without our consent or consultation.

The world crossed the threshold into a dangerous new epoch on May 23, 2001, with the Chisolm wildfire in Alberta. The conflagration released such ferocious power in such a short amount of time that its intensity was picked up by American military monitoring. They were convinced that Canada had just detonated a nuclear warhead.

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The phrase we've heard again and again about the Texas disaster is that "no one saw it coming." But even if they had, they would not have believed it.

The Guadalupe River was swamped by a staggering 1.8 trillion gallons of rain. This forced water levels to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.

There was no outrunning the flood. There was no climbing onto a second-story roof.

And despite the hopeful but false story that some young girls found sanctuary in a tree, the campers never had a chance. Twenty-six feet of water is the equivalent of an inland tsunami.

This is the new face of climate floods.

"It's almost certain that even after the 2026 deadline passes, many parents in five provinces will be paying more than $10 a day for child care," Macdonald said.

This reads super weirdly to me, and I can't tell if its just badly written, or if this whole scenario is ridiculously overblown.

The man told people when to call search and rescue, AND where his car would be, yet decided he should instead head off on foot (after cannibalizing his car) instead??

“We’re going to create space for our animals, we’re going to create space for our winged creatures, our plant life and everything else that flows,” [Westbank First Nation Councillor Jordan Coble] said. “We’re committing to that, right here, right now.”

On Wednesday, the B.C. and federal governments announced $8.3 million to support stewardship of ecological corridors in the province, including a long-standing effort to protect a key wildlife corridor in the Okanagan.

For several years, the B.C. and federal governments have been working with Indigenous Nations and conservation groups towards protecting at least 30 per cent of land and waters by 2030 — a commitment Canada made alongside 196 other countries at the global biodiversity conference in Montreal in 2022.

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Mark Carney can apparently do no wrong. Scroll through comments on news articles, and you’ll encounter an energetic online army defending the prime minister’s every action.

Cancelling a tax on the world’s most profitable tech giants? A genius chess move in his trade war against Trump.

Advocating for new pipelines while the country burns from climate change-fuelled wildfires? A tough decision to shore up Canadian sovereignty.

Boosting spending on the military to record and wasteful levels? A responsible counter to supposed perils like Russia or North Korea.

Expanding surveillance powers to crackdown on refugee rights? Well, at least he’s not Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

The U.S. President’s tariffs and threats have left Canadians anxious and disoriented, giving Carney an opportunity to move fast and with far too little scrutiny. He’s pushing through pro-corporate policies that go beyond anything he outlined on the campaign trail. The agenda is so right-wing, in fact, The Globe and Mail last week gleefully noted that “Brian Mulroney could have endorsed it.”

It’s no wonder that Carney is trying to push through his agenda as fast as possible, while Canadians remain disoriented. The prime minister’s newly-appointed top senior civil servant, Michael Sabia, is clear about this Canadian-style shock doctrine: “windows of opportunity open and close,” he wrote in a letter to civil servants on Monday. Sabia would be one to know: once upon a time he helped none other than Brian Mulroney privatize a rash of Crown corporations. Carney has even openly signalled he’s preparing to purge any civil servants who don’t get in line (with “high-level talk of recruiting other business achievers” to replace them).

We need to drop the Carney denialism in a hurry, and get angry instead. The prime minister, a consummate technocrat who knows how to cater to elite interests, is taking Canadians for a ride, while servicing his natural constituency: bankers, tech broligarchs, oil barons, and arms manufacturers. It’s time we open our eyes, clue in to what’s happening, follow the money—and put up a fight.

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