We’ll make our first stop in Montreal, Québec, as a record rent increase could soon become a reality. This as Quebec’s Tenancy Board permits record rent hikes. Tenants prepare for the worst. Then to Haliburton County, Ontario, where Intimate Partner Violence is considered to be an Epidemic. Out east in Nova Scotia: He left Burma in 1967 and retired four times. Dr. Mohan Virick, now 89 years old, lives in Cape Breton. He’ll soon receive the King Charles the third III Coronation Medal. In British Columbia: The Prince George Christmas Bird Count had its eyes on 19,641 avians. And a new 200-foot-long Indigenous mural is revealed at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg in hope of inspiring dialogue and reflection.

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