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The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales rose in December as the average price of a home sold also saw a boost compared with a year earlier. A real estate sign is displayed in front of a house in Toronto on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Evan Buhler

Homebuyers urged to be cautious despite expected interest rebound

Association forecasting a 10.4 per cent increase in residential properties to be sold this year

The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales rose in December as the average price of a home sold also saw a boost compared with a year earlier. A real estate sign is displayed in front of a house in Toronto on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Evan Buhler
Canadian shippers are starting to feel the strain of attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea, as boats reach the Port of Halifax more than a week late and container rates soar. People watch as a vessel from the global shipping container company MSC departs Halifax Harbour in Halifax on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Tremors of Red Sea conflict start to shake Canada, with dozens of ships delayed

Ships running between a day and two weeks behind as fighting continues in transportation corridor

Canadian shippers are starting to feel the strain of attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea, as boats reach the Port of Halifax more than a week late and container rates soar. People watch as a vessel from the global shipping container company MSC departs Halifax Harbour in Halifax on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Cold temperatures across the province set in as the fountain out front of the legislature freezes over during a cold spell in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, January 12, 2024. A warming trend is in the forecast for much of British Columbia after several days of record-breaking temperatures, but the cold weather on the Prairies will continue. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Warmth returns to B.C. the week, not so fast on the Prairies

Mix of snow and rain coming to south coast as temperatures climb back above freezing

Cold temperatures across the province set in as the fountain out front of the legislature freezes over during a cold spell in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, January 12, 2024. A warming trend is in the forecast for much of British Columbia after several days of record-breaking temperatures, but the cold weather on the Prairies will continue. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal. DNA testing is preformed at a lab in New York, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Bebeto Matthews

Tea-tasting sting led to B.C. murder conviction, charges of rights violations

Police secretly collected DNA from Kurdish community members in bid to find teen’s killer

Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal. DNA testing is preformed at a lab in New York, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Bebeto Matthews
Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet gives instructions to J.T. Miller (9) and others during overtime period of the team’s NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Vancouver Canuck coach Tocchet headed to NHL all-star game

Game will be Tocchet’s 2nd as a head coach, 6th including his time as a player

Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet gives instructions to J.T. Miller (9) and others during overtime period of the team’s NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The Canadian men’s field hockey team is shown posing with the bronze medal Nov. 3, 2023, at the Pan American Games. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Field Hockey Canada-Yan Huckendubler

Canadian men’s field hockey team puts jobs aside in bid to make Olympics

Players sacrificing full-time jobs for shot at Paris games

The Canadian men’s field hockey team is shown posing with the bronze medal Nov. 3, 2023, at the Pan American Games. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Field Hockey Canada-Yan Huckendubler
Canada’s Abby Stonehouse, 24, celebrates with teammate Sienna D’Allessandro, 14, after scoring a first period goal against Finland goalie Kerttu Kuja-Halkkola during bronze medal game action at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship on Sunday January 14, 2024 in Zug, Switzerland. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-International Ice Hockey Federation-Andre Ringuette

Canadian under-18 women’s hockey team takes bronze with 8-1 win over Finland

The United States won gold later in the day with a 5-1 victory over Czechia

Canada’s Abby Stonehouse, 24, celebrates with teammate Sienna D’Allessandro, 14, after scoring a first period goal against Finland goalie Kerttu Kuja-Halkkola during bronze medal game action at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship on Sunday January 14, 2024 in Zug, Switzerland. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-International Ice Hockey Federation-Andre Ringuette
Cold temperatures across the province sets in as a man reflected off the Queen Victoria statue takes a picture of the fountain out front of the legislature freezes over during a cold spell in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, January 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Winter weather still gripping Canada, but some B.C. warnings being dropped

Province didn’t escape unscathed, with one hospital closing and another’s ER dropping to -6 C

Cold temperatures across the province sets in as a man reflected off the Queen Victoria statue takes a picture of the fountain out front of the legislature freezes over during a cold spell in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, January 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
A tactical armoured RCMP vehicle drives past a police roadblock set up at James Smith Cree Nation, Sask., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Parole Board of Canada employees were fearful of threats after it was revealed a mass killer in Saskatchewan was on statutory release at the time of last year’s rampage, newly released internal emails show. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

‘Still grieving:’ Saskatchewan First Nation prepares for stabbing rampage inquest

The first of two inquests, it will establish what happened leading up to the 11 deaths and who died

A tactical armoured RCMP vehicle drives past a police roadblock set up at James Smith Cree Nation, Sask., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Parole Board of Canada employees were fearful of threats after it was revealed a mass killer in Saskatchewan was on statutory release at the time of last year’s rampage, newly released internal emails show. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
Economists are forecasting Canada’s inflation rate likely ticked up last month, but that isn’t expected to set off alarm bells as long as underlying price pressures ease. Motorists fuel up vehicles at a Shell gas station in Vancouver, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Economists expect December inflation went up, trend still points to slowdown

Prices still rising, but at slower rate, say experts

Economists are forecasting Canada’s inflation rate likely ticked up last month, but that isn’t expected to set off alarm bells as long as underlying price pressures ease. Motorists fuel up vehicles at a Shell gas station in Vancouver, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A women shops in the halal food section inside a Metro grocery store in Milton, Ont., on Friday, January 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Halal food industry growing to meet demand as Muslim population rises

Nearly 5 per cent of Canadians are Muslim, according to the 2021 census

A women shops in the halal food section inside a Metro grocery store in Milton, Ont., on Friday, January 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Guitar maker Nicolas Delisle poses at the Mile End Guitar Co-op in Montreal, Sunday, January 7, 2024. Delisle, a luthier by trade makes all his guitars by hand and for some uses century-old recycled wood. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Montreal man turns reclaimed wood from barns and buildings into custom guitars

Nicolas Delisle says each finished piece is full of history

Guitar maker Nicolas Delisle poses at the Mile End Guitar Co-op in Montreal, Sunday, January 7, 2024. Delisle, a luthier by trade makes all his guitars by hand and for some uses century-old recycled wood. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Teenager surfer Erin Brooks is shown June 7, 2023, at the ISA World Surfing Games in this handout image, where she won silver in the women’s shortboard event. The Texas-born 16-year-old, whose father Jeff has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, has been granted Canadian citizenship in the hope of representing Canada at the Paris Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Surf Canada-Dom Domic

Teenage surfing star granted Canadian citizenship, now eyeing Olympics

16-year-old will have one opportunity in February to qualify and compete for Canada

Teenager surfer Erin Brooks is shown June 7, 2023, at the ISA World Surfing Games in this handout image, where she won silver in the women’s shortboard event. The Texas-born 16-year-old, whose father Jeff has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, has been granted Canadian citizenship in the hope of representing Canada at the Paris Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Surf Canada-Dom Domic
Kaiya Ruiter, of Alberta, skates during the senior women free program at the Canadian figure skating championships in Calgary, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta’s Ruiter, B.C.’s Chiu win their first Canadian figure skating titles

’..that just felt like magic to me,’ said 17-year-old Ruiter

Kaiya Ruiter, of Alberta, skates during the senior women free program at the Canadian figure skating championships in Calgary, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The Canadian women’s field hockey team is shown in this handout image at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The Canadian women’s field hockey team blanked Malaysia 3-0 Sunday, bouncing back from an opening 2-0 loss to Britain at an FIH Olympic Qualifier. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Field Hockey Canada-Yan Huckendubler

Canadian women bounce back to beat Malaysia at Olympic field hockey qualifier

3-0 win gets team one step closer to Olympic dreams

The Canadian women’s field hockey team is shown in this handout image at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The Canadian women’s field hockey team blanked Malaysia 3-0 Sunday, bouncing back from an opening 2-0 loss to Britain at an FIH Olympic Qualifier. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Field Hockey Canada-Yan Huckendubler
Weather warnings cover much of Canada this weekend, from arctic outflows on British Columbia’s coast to extreme cold through the Prairies and storms through southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. A cyclist bikes across an icy hill in Vancouver on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Extreme cold persists in Prairies and B.C., as storms hit Eastern Canada

Conditions not expected to let up Sunday or Monday, says Environment Canada

Weather warnings cover much of Canada this weekend, from arctic outflows on British Columbia’s coast to extreme cold through the Prairies and storms through southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. A cyclist bikes across an icy hill in Vancouver on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
A man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting five women in Calgary is to have a French-language trial, which is relatively uncommon in the Alberta Court of Justice but legally required if requested. The sign at the Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary is shown on Jan. 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland

French-language trial to be held in Alberta not ‘particularly common’

The right to a trial in French is guaranteed under Canada’s Criminal Code

A man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting five women in Calgary is to have a French-language trial, which is relatively uncommon in the Alberta Court of Justice but legally required if requested. The sign at the Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary is shown on Jan. 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland
In July 2019, Vancouver police announced they had dismantled a multimillion-dollar drug operation after raiding two warehouse laboratories in South Vancouver allegedly making illegal cannabis extracts. Police cars are seen parked outside Vancouver Police Department headquarters in Vancouver, on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. civil forfeiture law will be put to ‘reasonable limits’ Charter test

Case centres around 2 warehouse labs, which Vancouver police say were making illegal cannabis

In July 2019, Vancouver police announced they had dismantled a multimillion-dollar drug operation after raiding two warehouse laboratories in South Vancouver allegedly making illegal cannabis extracts. Police cars are seen parked outside Vancouver Police Department headquarters in Vancouver, on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko (35) stops Buffalo Sabres left wing Zemgus Girgensons (28) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

Fans vote in host of Canucks, Leafs to NHL All-Star weekend

Vancouver will have 5 players taking part in festivities

Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko (35) stops Buffalo Sabres left wing Zemgus Girgensons (28) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
A person bundled up walks during some brief snow in Vancouver on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Extreme cold and biting wind has gripped Western Canada and it won’t shake loose until at least Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Record-breaking temperatures as B.C. tight in clutch of winter deep-freeze

Thermometers plunge around the province and across Western Canada

A person bundled up walks during some brief snow in Vancouver on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Extreme cold and biting wind has gripped Western Canada and it won’t shake loose until at least Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns