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After COVID-19 outbreak in retirement home, families want mandatory vaccines for staff

Even though Susan Asa-Katz’s mother is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the 92-year-old spent last week isolated in her room after unvaccinated staff at...

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The movement to address environmental racism is growing. This bill could provide the data it needs

Ada Lockridge has been fighting for cleaner air in her community for 20 years.  She recalls times when she and other residents of Aamjiwnaang First...

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Westboro bus crash trial is time for long-awaited answers, victims’ families say

In the two years since her mother Judy Booth died in an OC Transpo bus crash, Karen Benvie has been looking for answers....

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CRA sending details of bank accounts to IRS that don’t have to be reported

The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they...

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Jews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada’s decision on Nazi interpreter

As the evening light falls over the gentle slope of the ravine, Natalia Yefimushkina, her head tightly bound in a red scarf, stares...

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B.C. boy permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli

E. coli outbreaks used to mainly be linked to hamburgers, but the last decade has seen recall after recall of tainted romaine lettuce...

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Controversial neck hold still being used by Mounties as RCMP reviews its safety

The RCMP says it hopes to have a decision later this year on whether it will continue teaching Mounties to use a controversial...

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CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash

WARNING: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train...

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If he’s ever going to win, Erin O’Toole needs to start broadening the Conservative tent

If the Conservatives want to win the next election, they’ll need a broader coalition of voters behind them. But building that coalition has...

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New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease

Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a...

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Dramatic rise in reports of sexual assaults doesn’t lead to similar rise in charges

Reports of sexual assault to police are up significantly across the country, especially on P.E.I. where they have more than doubled in the past...

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Peter Nygard has phone in jail cell for constant contact with legal team, court documents reveal

Peter Nygard has been given what no other inmate at Manitoba’s Headingley Correctional Centre has access to: a phone in his cell that he...

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Senate’s new harassment policy ‘a gift’ for would-be abusers, senator says

The Senate’s new harassment policy is “a gift” for would-be harassers because it creates a culture of secrecy that will shield wayward senators...

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A year of misfortune: How the global pandemic has battered N.L.’s oil and gas industry

Amanda Young had her dream job as a cook on the Terra Nova FPSO, one of four oil-producing platforms in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. “We...

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Do you find it hard to end a conversation? You’re in the majority, study finds

Conversation is common, but not easy. That’s why computers can pilot an airplane around the world but still can’t master small talk.   ...

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How a client-therapist relationship left one Nova Scotian feeling more hurt than healed

Taron expected the counsellor would offer help to recover from complex post-traumatic stress disorder.  Instead, more than four years after the first therapy...

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