New year, new tax measures — what to expect in 2024 | Small businesses facing hard decisions about CEBA loan forgiveness deadline | Israel's Gaza bombing campaign is the most destructive of this century, analysts say
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Hello, these are your top stories for Monday, January 01, 2024.
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New year, new tax measures — what to expect in 2024;  The provincial government last month introduced legislation to limit short-term rentals in many cities in British Columbia in an effort to put thousands of units back into the long-term rental pool, with the changes coming into effect in May\.

New year, new tax measures — what to expect in 2024

January 1 , 2024 • 04:00 AM EST

New tax measures, and changes to existing ones, will begin affecting Canadians in 2024. But tax experts say the effects on most individuals are likely to be minor, unless they're high-income earners.

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Small businesses facing hard decisions about CEBA loan forgiveness deadline; Rod Castro, who owns the restaurants 10 Fourteen and Pubblico Eatery in Ottawa, says he hasn't yet decided whether to refinance his CEBA loan or not\.

Small businesses facing hard decisions about CEBA loan forgiveness deadline

December 31 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

With a major deadline to repay a pandemic era loan on the horizon, many small businesses say they're weighing their options but they wish the federal government had given them more time.

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Israel's Gaza bombing campaign is the most destructive of this century, analysts say; Israeli troops walk in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel on Thursday, Dec\. 21, 2023\. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct\. 7 attack into Israel\.

Israel's Gaza bombing campaign is the most destructive of this century, analysts say

December 30 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Satellite imagery and radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite are being used to map the damage in the Gaza Strip. It shows that the tempo and intensity of bombing and destruction outpace anything seen so far in the 21st century, leading to a predictably high number of civilian casualties.

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The environmental costs of EV batteries that politicians don't tend to talk about; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford during an announcement on a Volkswagen electric vehicle battery plant at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St\. Thomas, Ont\., Friday, April 21, 2023\.

The environmental costs of EV batteries that politicians don't tend to talk about

December 30 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

To unlock the 250,000 jobs and $48 billion that the EV battery supply chain will add to the Canadian economy, the industry will have to deal with some thorny environmental issues, such as what to do with millions of spent EV batteries and whether we should develop one of the world's largest carbon sinks.

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Trudeau family to jet to Jamaica for post-Christmas sun vacation; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a statement on Israel and Gaza in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Oct\. 16, 2023\.

Trudeau family to jet to Jamaica for post-Christmas sun vacation

December 22 , 2023 • 07:01 PM EST

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Jamaica next week for a family vacation over the holiday break. The Prime Minister's Office says the family will cover the cost of its stay as well as reimburse the cost of travelling on a government plane.

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Judge rejects appeals by Conservatives, human rights groups on foreign interference probe; Justice Marie-Josée Hogue from the Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected some appeals to her decisions for standing in the upcoming public hearings of the foreign interference inquiry\.  

December 22 , 2023 • 02:07 PM EST

Judge rejects appeals by Conservatives, human rights groups on foreign interference probe

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Dentists, hygienists unsure how national free dental care plan will work; A dental hygienist in Ottawa performs an exam on John Kelso in his retirement home\.  

December 30 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Dentists, hygienists unsure how national free dental care plan will work

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Heritage minister says she'd like CBC's mandate updated to include strong online presence, fill info gaps; Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge took a page out of her playbook handling the Hockey Canada controversy and is now imposing similar conditions on Canada Soccer if the organization wants continued federal funding\.  

December 29 , 2023 • 01:23 PM EST

Heritage minister says she'd like CBC's mandate updated to include strong online presence, fill info gaps

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Test your knowledge with The House's 2023 year-end quiz; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wait to continue escorting new Speaker of the House of Commons Greg Fergus to his seat on Parliament Hill on Oct\. 3, 2023\.  

December 23 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Test your knowledge with The House's 2023 year-end quiz

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Feds push back release date of foreign interference inquiry report; Justice Marie-Josée Hogue from the Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected some appeals to her decisions for standing in the upcoming public hearings of the foreign interference inquiry\.  

December 28 , 2023 • 05:38 PM EST

Feds push back release date of foreign interference inquiry report

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