According to the Canadian Christmas Trees Association, the industry has boomed in Saskatchewan in just the past few years. Judy Gilmour, who owns Gilmour Tree Farm near Lumsden, just northwest of Regina, says this year has been her busiest yet since opening three years ago. Shirley Brennan, executive director of the CCTA, says the pandemic also helped drive interest in Christmas trees, as people weren't visiting other family. Inflation hits industryA tree will also cost you, on average, about 10 per cent more over last year, according to the Christmas Tree Association. Judy Gilmour, owner of Gilmour Tree Farm near Lumsden, says she's sold out of her Christmas tree stock for this year.

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Her name was Joyce Kane, and originally she pursued a teaching degree but switched her major to home economics. But it is much more unusual for people her age to complete a bachelor’s degree. She got her bachelor's degree at the University of Madras in India. Veronica Ryan, who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts. “At last the Turner prize gets it.

That waste amounts to 58 per cent of the food produced in Canada even though 5.6 million Canadian are considered to be food insecure, she told the Commons agriculture committee. “Addressing food waste is a critical part of the issue of food insecurity. As well, there should be a tax credit to incentivize Canadian businesses to reduce their food waste and provide surplus food to organizations that can redistribute it, she said. “It is time for us to face the uncomfortable truth that Canada has a food waste crisis.” Reviving the surplus program as Canada heads into a recession is important as the country heads into an economic recession. “The latest research we did showed that only 4 per cent of businesses that have surplus food were donating it.

Seven consecutive interest rate hikes from the Bank of Canada this year has cooled the housing market in Calgary, as people shy away from borrowing at higher rates. Experts say affordability is still a problem and increased interest payments mean it won't change very soon. "With the increase in interest rates, those mortgage payments have absolutely soared," said Charles St. Arnaud, chief economist with Alberta Central, the trade association for Alberta's credit unions. But it's still obviously more expensive now to afford a house than it was at the beginning of the year, but that's mainly because of interest rates." He is hopeful that interest rates will start to come down in about a year's time.

CBC’s top-rated podcast series, Front Burner, recently featured a 30-minute interview with Centre for Future Work Director Jim Stanford on the continuing debate about whether corporate profits have contributed to recent Canadian inflation. The interview responds to recent claims of supermarket CEOs (in their appearance before a Parliamentary inquiry) that their profit margins on sales are modest and stable. In fact, compared to pre-pandemic norms, profit margins have grown by about three-quarters – and the mass of after-tax profits collected in the food retail sector has more than doubled. The podcast also considered the role of record profits in driving painful price increases in other sectors of the economy, too: including energy, banking, building supplies, car dealerships, and others. The podcast referenced the recent Centre for Future Work report documenting the surge of profits in 15 key sectors of Canada’s economy, and its dominant role in driving most of Canada’s recent inflation.

Singer-songwriter Janet Jackson will play Toronto in 2023, according to an announcement on Twitter. The musician shared on Monday that her “Together Again” tour will include a stop at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage on May 23. Rapper Ludacris will open for Jackson on tour. Jackson’s last concert tour, “A Special 30th Anniversary Celebration of Rhythm Nation,” did not include a Toronto date. Tickets will be on sale to the public on Friday, Dec. 16.

Ty Dellandrea played with Tyler Seguin and Mason Marchment. Denis Gurianov elevated to play with Jamie Benn and Wyatt Johnston, while Radek Faksa returned to the fourth line alongside Joel Kiviranta and Luke Glendening. It left just Nils Lundkvist, Miro Heiskanen and Joel Kiviranta with sticks as the Penguins possessed the puck in the offensive zone. After an icing, Tyler Seguin and Luke Glendening's sticks break. Dallas selected Stankoven in the second round in 2021, and the 19-year-old was named the CHL’s best player last season.

So, what should you do if you’ve just been let go and offered a severance package? Matthew Fisher, partner at Lecker & Associates, and Muneeza Sheikh, partner at Levitt Sheikh, say the first step is to wait before you sign any documentation. “I often say to my client that an employer’s first offer is rarely anywhere close to their best,” she explains. “You could be entitled to up to two years of pay, earned bonuses, future bonuses to all sorts of things,” says Fisher. “That at least puts you in a situation where you can make a more educated guess before signing something.”SHARE:

Major film studios have never been shy about pandering to the Chinese market.”1 Film critic Ho Siu Bun was referring to Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and the fact that the studio decided not to fold under pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They properly regard censorship as a violation of that right and as the hallmark of an authoritarian regime. The CCP perpetrates some of the worst censorship in the modern world. Chinese censors demanded that Tarantino remove violent scenes from Once Upon a Time . Thankfully websites such as ScreenRant and Hollywood Reporter report on censorship and pandering—enabling those who care about freedom of speech to avoid movies and studios that fold to the Chinese Communist Party’s demands.

He received $2,000 through the CERB program but now the government is asking him to repay it. According to the federal government, about 1.8 million Canadians received notices of debt related to CERB payments they didn't fully qualify for. They say he applied for employment insurance on April 7, 2020, which was processed as a CERB payment. He received seven weeks of benefits from Service Canada and then, on April 13, 2020, received his $2,000 CERB "advance" payment before returning to work on June 1. She agrees the details around the CERB payments were confusing for many.

If such were the case for food sales in Canada, it might be a plausible explanation for the food retail corporations’ huge increases in profits. The volume of grocery sales has not increased; it has declined of late. Domination of food retail by a tiny handful of firmsCanada’s food retail industry is dominated by a tiny number of firms, which constitutes what economists call an oligopoly. The powerful oligopoly that controls Canada’s food retail industry is one reason retailers’ profits have gone up, despite their declining sales volumes. The economist does add, charitably, that the food retail industry is not the most flagrant Canadian case of profiteering on inflation.

On this date in 1949 history was made at the B.C. Legislature with the naming of Nancy Hodges as Speaker. Her nomination made her the first-ever woman in the British Empire and Commonwealth to hold a Speakership. When she was defeated in 1953 provincially, Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent named her to the Senate. This remarkable advocate for women’s rights passed into history in 1969.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones acknowledges it is “not ideal” that kids are being sent far from home because local children’s hospitals are swamped by a post-pandemic surge of respiratory viruses like flu and RSV. There shouldn’t be a nurse shortage.”Jones said the hospital system is functioning as it should in challenging times. “It’s, frankly, an example of how our hospitals are working together,” she told reporters at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital. Children’s hospitals have cancelled surgeries to keep ICU beds clear for patients who are critically ill from respiratory viruses this season and have transferred older teens to adult hospitals. In Ottawa, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario has opened a second ICU and has called on the Red Cross to provide staffing assistance.

Sports Betting 101: Key NHL Team MetricsThis article marks the first in a series of articles I will be writing throughout the season designed to provide you with some value beyond simply a particular slate and apply it to your own process. When a team is eclipsing the 50% mark, this means that technically they are driving the play in the game. Conversely, suppose they have had a ridiculously high shooting percentage over a stretch of games relative to their career numbers or team season numbers. However, this is not always the case as a team with good underlying metrics may own a high PDO rating at the same time. Fantasy SP has worked diligently to bring you next-level sports betting analytics, prop betting tools, public betting splits, and so much more!