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A lack of snow and an exceptionally high risk of accidents has forced the closure of many of France’s ski runs, with slopes icy and “as hard as concrete”, officials said on Wednesday. A combination of extremely low night temperatures and scant snowfall is making conditions treacherous even for the most proficient skiers. Local authorities […]

All the new headwinds facing Canada’s homebuyers — from tough new mortgage “stress tests” and foreign buyers’ taxes to rising interest rates — haven’t stopped house prices from returning to growth. The latest edition of the Teranet/National Bank house price index shows home prices have recovered from a slump that began in the middle of […]

CTV Vancouver announced Monday it will introduce a host of changes in April, and began by letting go of the anchors for its 6 p.m. newscast. In a press release, CTV News Vancouver news director Les Staff thanked Tamara Taggart and Mike Killeen for “keeping Vancouverites informed about their city each and every day.” “Mike […]

David Lebor is not your typical German language teacher. He refuses to use textbooks. He doesn’t teach in a classroom setting, but prefers to take his students onto the streets. And, perhaps most surprising of all, he is British. Yet the 42-year-old entrepreneur’s radical new approach to teaching languages is helping Germany deal with one of the […]

OTTAWA — The sales practices of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies — a long-time sore spot for many consumers — will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal government on Thursday. “Like many Canadians, we are concerned by allegations of clearly inappropriate sales practices by telecom carriers,” Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible […]

Five teenagers and a 39-year-old mother were killed in a stampede at an Italian nightclub early on Saturday after someone reportedly released pepper spray and caused a panic inside the crowded venue.  The six people were crushed to death near the exit of the Blue Lantern disco in the central Italian town of Corinaldo, around […]

Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree rules for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming. Eleventh hour disagreements over carbon markets almost derailed negotiations and delayed a final agreement by a day. In […]

The Canadian government said 13 of its citizens have been detained in China since Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last month at the request of the US. Previously, only three of the detentions had been made known to the public. The detainees include Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat; Michael Spavor, a […]

A big financial loss may shorten your life, a new study suggests. Middle-aged Americans who experienced a sudden, large economic blow were more likely to die during the following years than those who didn’t. The heightened danger of death after a devastating loss, which researchers called a “wealth shock,” crossed socio-economic lines, affecting people no […]

A surfer was severely mauled by a shark off Australia’s east coast, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in recent months. The 36-year-old was surfing near Scotts Head Beach some 300 miles north of Sydney in the morning when he was bitten, New South Wales state police said. "The man suffered a […]