Jess Carignan is a flight dispatcher from Quebec City. Justin Niklaus runs a family bakery in Owen Sound. David Halpert publishes a cannabis magazine in North Toronto. This week, they were among the millions of amateur investors who took part in a trading frenzy that… Read More »How a massive ‘dumb money’ movement sent GameStop’s stock price soaring and cost Wall Street millions
An international drug smuggler who exported more than $1.7 billion of marijuana from Canada into the U.S. is one of the convicted criminals whose sentence was commuted by former American President Donald Trump. Jonathan Braun, 35, of New York, was convicted on Nov. 3, 2011,… Read More »Drug smuggler linked to Canadian Hells Angels gets last-minute pardon from Donald Trump
Q: I’m 33, still living at home and helping out. My mom, my younger brother, 21, my grandmother and uncle are all in poor health. My grandmother’s demanding of my mother, who’s had depression and anxiety for years. My uncle’s deaf and suffers from schizophrenia.… Read More »How can I get my deeply troubled family to show me some support? Ask Ellie
If you think you’ve seen a lot of new cannabis shops popping up around Toronto recently, it’s not all in your imagination. While many businesses are struggling during the pandemic, new cannabis retailers keep opening in the city and across Ontario. Does that mean the… Read More »More cannabis shops keep opening despite lots of competition and the pandemic
How has the pandemic hurt the psyche of Canadians? It’s a question that nagged at Michael Cooper since Canada’s first COVID-19 cases were identified. Sitting on a call with his colleagues at Mental Health Research Canada on March 10, Cooper discussed how the pandemic had… Read More »The pandemic has taken a toll on mental health in Canada. Will it also change mental health care?
Arianne Persaud has been using more cannabis this year, after losing a restaurant industry job at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. To cope with the stress of being unemployed, Persaud initially turned to alcohol. But Persaud decided to cut down the drinking and consume… Read More »‘It’s the first thing I do when I wake up.’ Canadians turning to cannabis to cope through COVID-19 pandemic
Before the pandemic, if I was suffering from writer’s block I’d head to a bar with my laptop and order something stiff to sip while music played in the background, using the atmosphere to help fuel my creative process. But we’re in COVID times so… Read More »Drinking CBD tea while trying a wreath-making workshop sounded like fun — till it wasn’t what I expected
When Danila Zeneli saw the listing for what would be her first home in Toronto, the condo fees for the downtown one-bedroom were just $287.34 a month. But by 2017 when she moved in, those fees had already gone up. And in 2018 they jumped… Read More »This Toronto homeowner was shocked when her condo fees jumped over 30 per cent within two years. The province’s auditor general wants better disclosure rules for developers
Three years before Premier Doug Ford’s government cancelled the Hamilton LRT over what it described as skyrocketing costs, Metrolinx and the Ministry of Transportation knew the project would be significantly more expensive than the $1 billion public estimate, according to Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk.… Read More »Metrolinx knew Hamilton LRT would cost far more than $1 billion years before it was cancelled, auditor general says
Cannabis, condominiums, and coffins. In her annual report to the legislature, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk argued that the Ontario needs better oversight of the marijuana trade, the financial implications of condo fees, and the funeral industry. The watchdog also expressed concern about blood and treasure.… Read More »Ontario needs better consumer oversight on everything from condos and coffins to cannabis, auditor general says