On Nov. 1, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced a widespread salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupes. On Friday, the agency confirmed a sixth death tied to the outbreak.

Statistics Canada's latest data shows that 1.5 per cent of Canadian households, more than 227,000 altogether, were onwaiting lists for social or affordable housing. And the majority of those households, more than 148,000 of them, had been waiting for two years or longer.