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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) obtained an interim injunction from Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench in August 2025 that bars William (Viliam) Makis from representing himself as ...
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...
A citizen-initiative petition to trigger an independence referendum is in active signature collection from January 3 to May 2, 2026, with proponents required to submit roughly 177,732 valid signatures...
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...
There is no evidence Canada is joining the United States as of the reporting in these sources; top Canadian leaders say it’s not happening and polls show most Canadians oppose it (e.g., 77% oppose in ...