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Modular, Prefab, and Mass Timber: Are Factory-Built Homes the Next Investor Opportunity in Canadian Housing?
Canadian Real Estate Wealth
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July 18, 2025
As Canada aims to build more homes, factory-built construction methods, including modular housing, prefabricated panels, and engineered wood systems like mass timber, are emerging as a potential solution to chronic bottlenecks in the housing...
Canada Faces Copper Trade Risk as Trump Tariff Looms
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 17, 2025
United States President Donald Trump‘s decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports — one of the world’s most versatile metals —has the potential to disrupt the global trade in metals and reverberate throughout Canada. Canada’s copper...
Canada Forward Olivia Smith Signs for Arsenal in Women’s World Record One Million Pounds Deal
Latestly
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July 17, 2025
Mumbai, July 17: Canada forward Olivia Smith has become the first women's soccer player to be signed for one million pounds ($1.34 million). Arsenal signed Smith from Liverpool on Thursday reportedly for the world record fee. That fee would...
Canada's income gap reaches record high in Q1 2025: StatCan
Canadian HR Reporter
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“While declining interest rates can lead to easing borrowing costs for households, they can also lead to lower yields on interest-bearing investments, such as savings and deposit accounts,” it says. “Lower income households are more likely to...
Rogers raises service revenue guidance, records steep profit decline in second quarter
The Globe and Mail
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July 23, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Rogers Communications said it would spend at the bottom of its estimated capital expenditure range in 2025.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI-B-T) raised its guidance for service revenue...
Canadian Record editor inducted into Texas Newspaper HoF
Amarillo Globe-News - Texas
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Laurie Ezzell Brown, editor and publisher of The Canadian Record and the subject of the documentary "For the Record," was recently inducted into the Texas Newspaper Hall of Fame. She was inducted by Texas Newspaper Foundation President Greg...
‘Promised high-paying jobs, but…’ American Punjabi organisation seeks probe into travel agency ads
Financial Express
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The North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) has urged authorities to impose strict scrutiny on foreign job advertisements issued by travel agencies in Punjab. This comes after individuals are promised high-paying jobs but are left abandoned in...
Former Afghan interpreter details alleged sexual abuse by Global Affairs employee
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 19, 2025
WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Clutching a teddy bear and trembling through her story in the witness box, a female former Afghan interpreter who worked for Canada in...
'Let me embrace this time': Eugenie Bouchard excited to play in her last tournament before retirement
Yardbarker
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July 23, 2025
Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard’s career is coming to an end next week in her home country, where she will feature in the Canadian Open. The 31-year-old’s career is divided into two parts. One where she became one of the best players in the world in...
B.C. premier Eby says more counter-tariffs won’t change Trump’s mind
Ottawa Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Canada Author of the article: Bloomberg News Thomas Seal Published Jul 23, 2025 • 4 minute read David Eby, premier of British Columbia Photo by Isabella Falsetti /Bloomberg Article content British Columbia’s premier warned...
Combating fentanyl trafficking and organized crime groups in the Americas
The Brookings Institution
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Dear Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Shaheen, and distinguished members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Thank you for holding this hearing entitled, “Dismantling Transnational Criminal Organizations in the Americas.” This is a crucial...
Ending a bad dye job
Douglas County Sentinel - Georgia
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Colorful candies and cereals, cheese ‘singles’ brighter than the color of any real cheese…mac n’ cheese without any real dairy, these are the food staples of my childhood and adolescence. Though I am still standing, I am also battling a highly...
Why the Bank of Canada could be done cutting its policy rate for now
Lethbridge News Now
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July 19, 2025
Most economists expect the Bank of Canada will deliver at least one or two more quarter-point cuts in the months ahead. Lower rates would help shore up the economy in the trade war, the argument goes. RBC is among a small group making the case for...
Canadian Firm Matador Aims For 6,000 Bitcoin Treasury By 2027
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN- Crypto Breaking) In an ambitious stride towards bolstering its digital asset holdings, Matador Technologies, a prominent player in the cryptocurrency mining sector, has announced its strategic plan to amass 6,000 Bitcoin in its treasury...
Trump is playing governing Liberals for fools with his whims
Lethbridge Herald
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July 23, 2025
By Lethbridge Herald on July 23, 2025. Editor, I enjoy watching the Liberals scurry around pretending they are making headway on trade and insisting all the while that it’s a deal for Canada or no deal. Meanwhile the real negotiator/dictator isn’t...
Kinew walks away from pipeline deal
Winnipeg Sun
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July 23, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Published Jul 23, 2025 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 3 minute read Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline is unloaded in Edson, Alta., in 2019. Photo by PNimg /Winnipeg Sun Article content Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew chose...
News of the Weird: Government in action
Greenville Journal - South Carolina
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July 23, 2025
Max McKinney, 15, of Spooner, Wisconsin, thought he was “working hard and doing the right thing” when he built a charming fishing bait stand on his family’s farmland, AgWeb reported on July 8. From the wooden 6-by-15-foot shed, McKinney sold bait,...
Canada’s new national policy will leave a large spending shadow
The Hub
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July 17, 2025
Since the election rhetoric of our old relationships being dead and a new global age being upon us, the Carney government has moved to bring about national infrastructure and defence expenditure projects, which will rapidly ramp up the size of the...
From McDonald’s To The NHL: How ‘Undersized’ Jaroslav Halák Became The Best Slovak Goalie Ever
Yahoo Sports
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When you look back at the history of Slovak hockey, elite goaltenders have been few and far between. There used to be a common joke: Slovakia had A-level forwards, B-level defensemen, and C-level goalies. One notable exception during the...
Canada’s rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, income gap reaches historic high as wages decline and investment surges
The Economic Times
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July 17, 2025
The income gap between Canada’s richest and poorest households hit a record high in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday(July 15). The federal agency said the difference in the share of...