PRESS DIGEST-Canada - Dec 21

Dec 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

**Toronto will get C$471 million($353.07 million) under a federal housing agreement – the largest payment yet to a municipality from Ottawa’s Housing Accelerator Fund, which requires cities to loosen zoning rules that protect neighbourhoods dominated by single-family homes.

**Unions representing hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers have threatened to start an open-ended strike in early 2024 if no deal is reached with the government before the new year.

**The Alberta government directed the provincial health authority to remove the words “influenza” and “COVID” from advertisements for the province’s fall immunization campaign, as officials worked to launch the annual program amid warnings that cases of respiratory illnesses were rising.

($1 = 1.3340 Canadian dollars) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)