Latest from Colin Butler
Beef costs more than ever, but Canadians won't let that ruin barbecue season
Canada's love affair with the summer burger is proving stronger than inflation. Ground beef hit $14.67 per kg in May 2025 — a 25 per cent increase over the same time last year. Yet, despite the sticker shock, Canadians appetite for beef shows no signs of waning.
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Goldfish, traps and electric currents: Inside Canada's quiet war against invasive carp
With invasive carp breeding just across the border, it’s not a question of if, but when they arrive in Canada. Now federal scientists are racing to root out the carp before they crash the party and to capture an ecosystem on the brink of irreversible change.
Canada's stubby beer bottle finds new meaning in an age of American bluster
The stubby, a Canadian beer bottle that was once a fixture in fridges from coast to coast, is now being reinterpreted as a subtle form of economic self-defence as trade tensions with the U.S. heat up.
Ontario lawsuit underscores Indigenous anger over being left out of resource decisions
Saugeen Ojibway Nation is taking Ontario to court, arguing decades of unpaid salt royalties and a pattern of exclusion from key decisions about stone and sand quarries in its territory reflect a broader problem: resource development that leaves Indigenous nations left out of the conversation.
Scientists suspect lethal virus behind countless fish washing up dead in Lake Huron
Scientists who study fish suspect an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), could be behind the unusually large number of dead fish in Lake Huron this spring.
Hobbyists revisit the last time Canada had its 'elbows up' against U.S. annexation
Hobbyists re-enacting a 211-year-old War of 1812 battle nearLondon, Ont., say a lot can be learned from the last time Canada had its 'elbows up' against American annexation.
Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture
Big investors are increasingly buying up Ontario farmland — a trend experts say is making it increasingly difficult for small or aspiring farmers to acquire land and could have far-reaching consequences on rural communities.
Moving nuclear waste through traditional territories could face opposition, Ontario First Nation says
A First Nation in southwestern Ontario says even if the community votes yes on a proposed $26 billion dump for nuclear waste within their traditional territory, it would likely be opposed by other First Nations, through whose territories the more than 5.5 million spent fuel rods would have to pass.
Proposed fixes to temporary foreign workers program fail to address power imbalance, critic says
A Senate report lays out six recommendations for an overhaul of Canada's temporary foreign worker program, one the report states is 'not working for migrant workers and could be better for employers.'
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With cash incentives and jobs aplenty, Fanshawe College's PSW school is churning out grads
Student personal support workers can land a job within six months, amid tuition and relocation incentives to meet a projected shortage of 50,000 PSWs in Ontario.