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Countries around the world have been racing to introduce transparency requirements in many different areas of the law. Examples include corporate shareholder registries, required disclosure when implementing certain tax transactions and trust beneficiary reporting requirements.

The Forlers could see their family of five was growing fast and would soon need a bigger place to live. So they started to think farther afield.

If you’re a Canadian resident who used the medical services company LifeLabs on or before Dec. 17, 2019, you may qualify for up to $150 as part of the company’s $9.8 million class-action settlement.

Big crowds and big emotions were on the menu as British Columbia’s biggest stadium prepared to play farewell host to one of the country’s most iconic athletes.

The federal government appears to have a perception problem: Most Canadians don’t understand what the carbon tax is costing them while others believe they are paying more than they receive in rebates, a new poll suggests.

An arrest and huge seizure of 26,000 allegedly counterfeit $2 coins in Quebec, and a second smaller seizure of the same dodgy coins in a northern Ontario city a few months later, suggests that a new counterfeit toonie variety is circulating across Canada, a coin expert says.

The stillness of a cold night in the rural town of Caledon, Ont., was shattered by the sound of gunshots just before midnight on Monday.

A new COVID-19 subvariant called HV.1 is gaining traction across Canada, but whether or not it is more contagious than past variants remains to be seen, according to health experts.

Royal Bank of Canada report.The RBC analysis of the October resale market argues higher interest rates have the fall housing market “stuck in a low gear.”Inventories are still growing, but not at the pace seen for the past few months in Toronto, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Buyers are still finding they have more options to choose from, leading to a “rebalancing of market conditions.”Those buyers who are able to qualify for a mortgage amid higher interest rates have been able to extract lower prices in some Ontario, Quebec and British Columbian markets, according to the report from RBC’s Robert Hogue and Rachel Battaglia.Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley all saw price declines month-to-month in October.Toronto’s October was the quietest in nearly 25 years, the report said, with buyers taking the “upper hand” in negotiations.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will meet provincial and territorial finance ministers later this week to discuss the possibility of Alberta’s withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

On Oct. 20, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie came back from her temporary leave to overrule a previous rejection by city council and allow the building of four-unit housing on low-rise residential lots.

But if you include students from other states of India who go to Canada for post-secondary education, the number could be near $20 billion. Such a huge amount of money pouring in every year from India underlines the importance of Canada-India ties. Rising consumer demand in India not only boosts the Indian economy but is now contributing to foreign economies too.How Indians fund Canadian education system College fees constitute a significant part of the total annual expenditure of Indian students in Canada, and the Indian money going into the education sector in Canada has made headlines in recent times. Indian students have even left behind the government in Canada in funding of the public education system. International students from India have outpaced the government of Ontario, a province in Canada, in funding public colleges, a recent report has highlighted. Given that tuition fee for international students is something like three times what it is for domestic students (exact data is difficult to pin down because Statistics Canada chooses not to track tuition fees at the college level), that means that something like 76% of all tuition fees in the sector come from international students, says a recent report published by Higher Education Strategy Associates, a Toronto-based consulting firm that provides research, analysis and strategic advice related to higher education.

Prospective homebuyers had “more choice” in Canada’s housing market in August as a rise in new listings met a slowdown in activity, according to the national real estate association.

As more companies call workers into the office after the peak of the pandemic, a growing number of Canadians are now commuting to their work – and for many, it’s taking longer than before, new data shows.

Two cities in southern Ontario that share a partial border have taken the number one spots for the rudest and politest cities in Canada.

flash flooding, record heat and wildfires.Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said that the bullseye for the strongest storms will be over the northeastern U.S., with parts of New York state down to Kentucky in line for potentially damaging winds, hail, heavy downpours and isolated tornadoes.He said Ontario and Quebec are on the “northern periphery of this disturbance.”“Once again it looks like parts of eastern Ontario could see some strong storms Monday late afternoon to evening with the biggest threat being heavy rainfall,” Hull said in an email.“There are Rainfall Warnings in place from Ottawa south towards Kingston and east to areas north of Montreal where some downpours could deliver more than 50 mm of rain in a relatively short amount of time which could lead to localized flooding.”As the weather system moves east into the Maritimes, there will be the potential for heavy rain Tuesday night into early Wednesday, Hull said, and a special weather statement has been issued.Environment Canada says rainfall could exceed 50 millimetres over the northern half of New Brunswick and be up to 50 millimetres in some parts of Nova Scotia.Parts of Nova Scotia are still reeling from a torrential downpour that triggered floods July 22 and killed four people, while Halifax recently had storms and flooding this past Saturday.In an online bulletin, the U.S.

detective and a coroner stand in a lab and look at an X-ray to confirm the identity of the person lying in front of them.Police and coroners really do rely on dental records to identify the dead when they otherwise can’t — maybe if the body was pulled from a fire, removed from a car after a bad crash or scooped out of a river.And there’s been a nearly 400 per cent spike in requests for them in Ontario so far this year.There were 48 requests between Jan. 1 and July 31 in 2023 compared to 10 during the same period in 2022, according to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, which sends the requests to all dentists in the province.That’s already more than 2022 and 2021, which saw 38 and 41, respectively.But Ontario’s Chief Coroner told Global News it’s likely not because more people are dying.Dr.

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plane crash that left all six people on board dead Friday night.The plane was heading to Salmon Arm, in B.C.’s Southern Interior, from Calgary and lost contact about 30 minutes into its journey.On Saturday, RCMP said, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ont., tasked a Winnipeg-based Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130 Hercules from the 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron with the search, after reports of the plane not arriving at its destination were received.“The crew honed in on the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) to the crash site on Mount Bogart. Alberta Parks Mountain Rescue responding with Alpine Helicopters and a Comox-based RCAF CH-149 Cormorant from the 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron were dispatched to assist,” police said.Alberta Parks Mountain Rescue were also assisted by Alberta Health Services (AHS), Kananaskis Emergency Services and Alberta Conservation.Responder crews said it was very cloudy at the time, reducing visibility.The Edmonton-based investigators will be in the area for a couple days and will determine if weather was a factor.

A wildland firefighter from Ontario was fatally injured on Friday while helping battle the largest wildfire in B.C. history.

attacked by a dog in Oshawa, Ont.Residents in the area say the girl was walking down the sidewalk when dog got loose from its chain and started biting her.Global News has agreed to protect the identity of one of the people who helped for fear of retaliation. She said she and her father were sitting in their house when they heard something outside.“We heard a really loud scream,” she said.The Good Samaritan leapt into action, along with her father, to help save the teen.“We see a pit bull on top of this young girl biting her, basically ripping her shoulder blade.”Police say they responded to the incident on Agnes Street at around 7 p.m.