Canada

Canadians could see some relief as they fill their shopping carts this holiday season.

After years of rising food prices, the cost of many pantry staples has stabilized — and there could be particular relief in the most expensive item on many Canadians’ holiday tables: the bird.

The price of a fresh turkey is trending down compared with last year, and it’s currently on track to be about 12 per cent less expensive than it was five years ago, according to a CBC analysis of national data from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Canadians describe themselves as being in the “centre.”

In four Abacus Data surveys conducted from September to November, interviewing over 10,000 Canadian adults, 45 percent self-identified as being in the centre of a traditional Left-Right spectrum. Another 28 percent put themselves on the Left or centre-Left, while 27 percent said they were on the Right or centre-Right.

Canadians are donating less to charity, with both the number of donors and the donation amounts shrinking, according to a recent study by the Fraser Institute.

The study, titled “Generosity in Canada: The 2024 Generosity Index,” shows that the percentage of tax filers who donated to charity has fallen to its lowest point in 20 years.

What if you went on strike and nobody cared?

Postal workers are learning the hard lesson that their service isn’t as essential to people as they thought it was. With a month on the picket lines, all postal workers have managed to accomplish is to lose public support and speed up Canada’s transition to a paperless society. Postal workers can no longer effectively hold Canadians hostage during the Christmas season. Their strikes no longer cripple the nation, they only irritate it.