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Walmart Canada has publicly closed a small number of underperforming and safety-impacted stores in recent years, most notably a six‑store wave announced in March 2021 and a separate permanent closure ...
Walmart is not closing all Canadian stores. Available reporting shows targeted, local closures (six announced in March 2021 and six announced in late 2024) plus a handful of other permanent single-sto...
Alberta has not formally declared independence from Canada, nor has it formally applied to join the United States; what exists in reporting is an active separatist movement, petitions for a provincial...
The short answer: not in a simple, binary way — credible third‑party assessments find CBC’s factual reporting to be strong while flagging a modest left‑of‑centre editorial tilt, but perceptions of bia...
William (Viliam) Makis is presented across multiple public profiles as a Canadian-trained nuclear medicine physician and researcher who has worked in radiology/oncology and authored more than 100 peer...
Isolated incidents occurred where people were injected with saline or diluent instead of a COVID-19 vaccine, typically because of preparation or handling errors at specific clinics or pharmacies. Ther...
The short answer: extremely unlikely. Contemporary talk of the United States “annexing” Canada has been driven by political rhetoric and fringe movements, not by viable legal, military, or popular rou...
Becoming a U.S. state requires Congressional approval under the U.S. Constitution; typical practice has involved first organizing a territory, drafting a state constitution, holding a vote of local re...
There is no record in the provided reporting that Alberta has been declared a U.S. state; claims of an imminent vote or automatic statehood have been debunked and mainstream coverage describes a vocal...
Federal law requires voters to prove both identity and address to vote in a Canadian federal election; Elections Canada says you must show ID accepted by them and typically need two pieces if one lack...
Revocable living trusts (inter vivos revocable trusts) exist and are discussed by Canadian estate planners, but they function differently in Canada than in the U.S.: they are generally revocable durin...
Publicly available assessments and polls show CBC is widely seen as a mainstream, generally credible Canadian public broadcaster but is frequently perceived as having a left-of-centre or “government-f...
No Alberta provincial government has ever passed a legal declaration of independence from Canada; recent 2024–2025 political moves and citizen initiatives pressed the question into public view but sto...
Governments have responded to chemtrail allegations mostly through inquiries, official denials and limited lawmaking — not through prosecutions or wide-ranging legal action against secret spraying pro...
Norway does not rely on production-style royalties like many jurisdictions; instead the state captures oil and gas value mainly through high taxes (a 22% ordinary corporate tax plus a petroleum specia...
Provincial debt-to-GDP ratios in 2024/25–2025 rose from pre‑COVID (2019/20) levels in nearly every analysis, contributing to a higher combined federal‑provincial debt‑to‑GDP share that the Fraser Inst...
There is no single official table in the provided reporting that lists “debt-to‑GDP for each province in 2025”; available sources instead give provincial snapshots, combined federal‑provincial aggrega...
Canada’s Human Development Index (HDI) score has inched upward over the past decade, reaching a reported 0.939 in 2023 after values in the low 0.92–0.93 range in the mid‑2010s (for example, 0.92 in 20...
Walmart Canada has announced a landmark C$6.5 billion investment over five years to expand stores and modernize its supply chain, including “dozens” of new locations and five Supercentres in Ontario a...
British Columbia (B.C.) is identified in multiple official and reference sources as a province of Canada; it joined Confederation in 1871 and is routinely described as Canada’s westernmost province wi...