Andrew Johnson

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson

If you are holding onto a Hudson’s Bay gift card, spend it now. That’s the message from retail experts after the department store filed for creditor protection to avoid bankruptcy. “If you have gift cards, you’re at risk,” retail analyst David Ian Gray told CTV News. “We saw when Nordstrom left that they gave a heads up, I think a very quick window… I feel like it was days, it wasn’t weeks, to make use of these things. “You’re not assured of anything right now, nobody is,” Gray added.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson

Immigration lawyers say they are seeing a 50 per cent surge in Americans living in Canada looking to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Campbell River, B.C.’s Jennifer Doxey and her family are among them. “I’m just so embarrassed by what my country has become,” she told CTV News. Doxey, who grew up in Ohio, met her husband who had dual citizenship, in 2003. Five years later, they decided to raise their children in Canada.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson

Following reports from Canadians describing dreadful travel experiences at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, more travellers have come forward to share what they went through. Steve Pontarelli, a Quebec man, told CTV News that guests started “dropping like flies” at his wedding. “Some didn’t get out of bed for 4 days and didn’t get any food in their systems,” he said.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson

A pair of Canadians, who live several provinces apart, have returned home from a Mexican resort still feeling ill and are desperate to warn other travellers who they hope will never have a similar experience. “It was the worst 12 hours of my life,” Sheena Robinson told CTV News Tuesday at her Maple Ridge, B.C. home. A week earlier, Robinson, her husband, and three children checked in at the all-inclusive Sandos Playacar resort in Playa del Carmen, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

2 months ago | ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson

A big show of affection from a small U.S. border town left Canadians near tears during tense times over tariffs and calls to boycott U.S. travel.