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Are crickets healthy food? Why does a Canadian mother feed them to her 18-month-old baby?
Fp Explainers •Even though eating bugs can be stomach-turning for many, the practice is growing. A mother recently claimed that she feeds crickets to her 18-month-old child because they are a great source of 'protein' and that doing so has greatly decreased her monthly grocery bill
Gold bars worth over 100 million dollars stolen from Canada airport
Abhishek Awasthi •The airport handles over half of the air cargo for the nation. It becomes an easy target as many commodities are constantly passing through ports and airports. According to police, criminal activities are rampant Pearson Airport
In Canada, freezing rain, gales leave more than a million without power
Fp Staff •About 1.1 million people did not have power in Quebec and about 167,000 in Ontario as of this morning, according to Poweroutage.com. Ontario and Quebec account for more than half of Canada’s total population of about 39.6 million
Canada lawmaker resigns from party despite denying Chinese influence
•Trudeau last month denied a media report the party had been warned by the country's spy agency to drop Han Dong, a Toronto-area member of parliament, as a Liberal candidate ahead of the 2019 election because he had Beijing's support
Explained: Why Canada has banned foreigners from buying houses for 2 years
Fp Explainers •Before you Google ‘How to move to Canada’, know this. A new law that came into effect on 1 January bans most foreigners from buying a residential property as an investment for two years. It was passed because of the rise in house prices during the pandemic
Canada: Swaminarayan temple defaced with anti-India slogans, India raises issue
•The Indian High Commission has condemned the incident and urged Canadian authorities to take swift action against the perpetrators
Candlelight vigil to be held to honour Indian student who was fatally shot outside Sherbourne Station
Fp Staff •According to his family, Kartik had moved to Canada in January this year to study marketing management at the Seneca College in Toronto and was working part-time at a restaurant
Family of Indian student killed in Canada seeks govt help to travel to Toronto, fears case may be hushed up
•The local Canadian police said Kartik Vasudev was shot dead by an unidentified man at the entrance of a subway station in Toronto while he was on his way to work and was taken to a hospital but succumbed to the injuries
21-year-old student from Ghaziabad shot dead outside subway station in Canada
Fp Staff •Kartik Vasudev was shot multiple times and was transported by paramedics to hospital where he later died
ATP Toronto Masters: Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas storm into quarter-finals
•Medvedev finished with 10 aces as he reached his eighth quarter-final at the Masters level – all achieved since 2019.