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  Calgary mayor says 3 to 5-week repair timeline is the 'maximum'

  Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says work is progressing simultaneously on five issues identified in the city's feeder main last week and residents are being asked for continued patience with water conservation measures.

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  CMHC says annual pace of housing starts in May up 10 per cent from April

  Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May climbed 10 per cent compared with April, helped by gains in Montreal and Toronto.

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  2 Canadian cities ranked high on global list of most expensive places to buy a home

  As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.

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  Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected byproduct

  For about 50 years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: There isn’t enough visible matter in the universe.

• Nuclear-armed nations are deepening their reliance on their nuclear weapons, watchdog finds

  The world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on such deterrence in 2023, a Swedish think tank said Monday.

• World's first weekly insulin injection coming to Canada in 2 weeks, manufacturer says

  Many people with diabetes in Canada will soon be able to take insulin once a week instead of daily, drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk announced on Monday.

• Japan reports record spike in potentially deadly bacterial infection

  Cases of a dangerous and highly fatal bacterial infection have reached record levels in Japan, official figures show, with experts so far unable to pinpoint the reason for the rise.

• Israeli officials say Netanyahu has dissolved the War Cabinet after key partner bolted government

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the war in Gaza, Israeli officials said Monday, a move that comes days after a key member of the body bolted the government over frustrations surrounding the Israeli leader's handling of the war.

• U.S. surgeon general calls on Congress to require social media warning labels, like those on cigarettes

  The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.

• Putin to visit North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un, both countries say

  North Korean state media says Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in the country on Tuesday for a two-day visit.

• A new tax filing system could give Canadians more than $1 billion in unclaimed benefits: PBO

  Canadians would get more than $1 billion in unclaimed benefits each year through an automatic tax filing system, according to a report published by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO).

• 16-year-old boy fatally shot outside Scarborough plaza identified

  Police have identified a teenage boy who was fatally shot in Scarborough’s L’Amoreaux neighbourhood on Saturday afternoon.

• 1 in 4 parents say their young child has bedtime anxiety, new poll finds

  One in four parents say they have trouble getting their anxious child to sleep, while one in five resort to giving their kids melatonin, according to a new poll.

• George Clooney and Julia Roberts help Joe Biden raise US$30 million-plus at a star-studded Hollywood gala

  Some of Hollywood's brightest stars headlined a fundraiser for U.S. President Joe Biden that took in a record US$30 million-plus for a Democratic candidate, according to his campaign, in hopes of energizing would-be supporters for a White House contest they said may rank among the most consequential in U.S. history.