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Jennifer Lewis never imagined that at 60, she'd be living on so little money that she'd be fasting as a strategy for reducing food costs. She gets all the benefits and subsidies an impoverished woman of 60 can qualify for in B.C., but she's still paying 80 per cent of her income on rent. Her physica...

Traders are increasingly betting that the Bank of Canada could end its string of interest rate holds and deliver a hike as early as next month. While many economists remain unconvinced that the central bank will raise the cost of borrowing this year, concerns that inflation could become a more persi...

Stephen Vandervalk half-jokes that there's a reason more farmers aren't seen pitching their businesses on "Dragon's Den" and "Shark Tank." "They would laugh you out of the room," said the fourth-generation southern Alberta wheat grower. It's an industry where investment...

Parliamentarians are taking a hard look at Canada's overseas intelligence gathering capabilities as debate simmers over the need for a new foreign spy agency. The MPs and senators who make up the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians are examining the effectiveness of Cana...

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the 'largest ever' drone ...