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Author: Maria Michaux

Canada

Groups push to shape election debate around Middle East conflict, protests

As Canadians head into the final 10 days of campaigning ahead of the April 28 federal election, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group and B’nai Brith Canada — the leading voice of the country’s Jewish-Canadian community — are attempting to shape the discussion around the Israel-Hamas conflict and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Vote Palestine says its “goal is to pressure all...
Ontario Votes 2025

Liberal flips Nepean as voter turnout matches provincial average

In the recent Ontario election, voter turnout in Nepean was 45.49 per cent, with just 46,741 of the 102,744 eligible voters casting a ballot. While this figure is slightly higher than Ontario’s record-low turnout of 44.06 per cent in 2022, it reflects a broader trend of low voter engagement as in this election, Ontario only saw a 45.40 per cent voter turnout.  Across Ottawa, turnout...
Business

The price drop: Cheaper alcohol boosting family-owned convenience stores

Meet and Yashaswy Patel, two brothers living in Ottawa, have owned a convenience store called Our Neighbourhood Store for the past six months where the Patels know all about fluctuating prices for groceries, snacks and now alcohol. The presence of alcoholic beverages for sale in convenience stores started last fall when the province of Ontario increased the market for selling...