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Canadian restaurants struggling to turn a profit, new report says

Canadian restaurants struggling to turn a profit, new report says

A survey of Restaurants Canada members found that 44 per cent of respondents were either operating at a loss or just breaking even — up from 2019 when only 12 per cent of respondents were in that same financial position. Restaurateurs and experts say less traffic at restaurants and rising costs are making it hard to do business.

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When some people drive EVs, entire communities can benefit

When some people drive EVs, entire communities can benefit

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the benefits for entire communities when some people drive EVs; find out about a winter drought in Western Canada; and learn why a northern community wants an oil company to remove artificial islands in the Mackenzie River.

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Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory
Star

February 4, 2026

Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory

Ask the travellers who keep going year after year, and…

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Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Jordan Omstead

Why a turtle die-off has this Ottawa researcher worried about warming winters

Grégory Bulté was snorkelling in the cold waters of Ontario’s…

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Business, Health, Ontario/Quebec, Social

February 4, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Medical staff leave Kashechewan First Nation as parasite contaminates water

Medical staff have left a northern Ontario First Nation that…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Teen charged with second-degree murder in death of infant in Port Rowan, Ont: police

PORT ROWAN — A teenager has been charged with murder…

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Business, Construction, Economy, Real Estate

February 4, 2026

Ian Bickis

Greater Toronto home sales, prices slide in January with more weakness ahead: TRREB

TORONTO — Greater Toronto Area home sales and price weakness…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran CFL middle linebacker Wynton McManis

HAMILTON — Wynton McManis wasn’t unemployed long. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Gemma Karstens-Smith

‘We were really starting to click there’: Leafs enter Olympic break on win streak

EDMONTON — Matthew Knies is of two minds when it…

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Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones
Star

February 4, 2026

Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones

Nine months after Lilly and Jack Sullivan vanished without a…

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Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay
Star

February 4, 2026

Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay

The YMCA and CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal launched “A Pathway to…

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