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	Podcast:		Global National
	Episode:		Global National: June 14
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:22:03
	Publish Date:		2023-06-15 01:31:25
	Description:		Canada's ratio of household debt to disposable income rose to nearly 185 per cent in the first quarter of the year, according to Statistics Canada. The impact this is having on Canadians already struggling to pay their bills, and how its shutting younger generations out of home ownership. The Canadian news media landscape has shrunk again, with Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) Inc. eliminating the jobs of 1,300 people, including some veteran CTV News journalists. The company is also shuttering six radio stations, and selling off three others. The cuts, the reason, the reaction, and the crushing blow to Canadian journalism. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to step down over the way Mendicino and his office handled information about the transfer of serial rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison. The new information sparking Poilievre's demand, Mendicino's response, and the concerns from the families of Bernardo's victims. There is outrage in Kelowna after a couple allegedly harassed a nine-year-old girl and her parents in a transphobic tirade at a school track meet. The school district's investigation, and what experts say is fuelling bigotry. And, when you think of fruit and vegetable gardens, you probably imagine tilled, tidy rows without weeds. But land was cultivated differently for centuries before colonization. How some Indigenous people in Winnipeg are now using traditional methods of gardening to nourish both bodies and souls.
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