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Home to Home Run for charity: Sault man logging marathon a day from B.C. to Ontario
Rick Fall ran a marathon in British Columbia on Monday. The 61-year-old finished another 42 kilometres on Tuesday and Wednesday, and aims to keep that pace for another 100...
Red Cross distributes nearly $6.2M to families after N.S. mass shooting
Karen Dean knew her friend Gina wouldn’t want her to be frozen in grief. In the days after Dean learned Gina Goulet and...
Shortage of N.B. health-care providers forces student to pay out of pocket to see gynecologist
Mhàiri Agnew has suffered from recurring abdominal pain for more than half of her life. When she first complained as a child, her longtime...
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...
In a Regina retirement home, boxing and pool keep pandemic loneliness at bay
Like many other seniors, retired teacher Jim Nedelcov found himself trapped in his own apartment, bored and lonely when a lockdown was imposed about...
The Blended Bunch: Who Are Erica And Spencer Shemwell’s 11 Kids?
TLC’s new series, The Blended Bunch, follows the Shemwell family. Like the now-famous Duggar family, the Shemwells have a large bunch. According to...
5 graphs that help tell the story of the pandemic
It’s been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and Canada is just beginning to understand how the coronavirus has...
So you got your COVID-19 shot. Does that mean life goes back to normal?
After Toronto family physician Dr. Tali Bogler received her final dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she felt a newfound sense of...
Outdoor hockey players in Alberta break records, raise $1.8M for cancer research
The world’s longest hockey game in Alberta broke multiple records this year. Forty people took turns playing hockey on an outdoor rink near...
Why it might be best to avoid painkillers as a precaution before your COVID-19 vaccine
Billions of people worldwide will receive vaccines to protect against COVID-19 and some will temporarily feel a sore arm, fever or muscle aches....
Pucks shatter, blades break: Alberta players brave cold for 252-hour hockey game
Brent Saik laughs when asked how 40 players competing in a multi-day hockey game, to break the Guinness World Record for the longest game, are...
10-year-old B.C. boy raises more than $3K for hospice that cared for his dying great-aunt
A 10-year-old member of the Lake Babine and Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nations has turned the cultural tradition of not cutting your hair for a year...
The Unsaid Truth Of Tiger Woods’ Father
In the documentary, co-directors Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamachek highlight the high expectations Earl Woods placed on his son, Tiger Woods, at a...
How loved-ones are honouring the memory of those killed in Iran’s Flight 752 air disaster
Twelve months after an Iranian missile shot down a plane carrying 176 people, including 55 Canadians and many others with strong ties here,...
New rules on removal of illegal online content could help in battle against child pornography
The federal heritage minister will soon introduce legislation aimed at compelling companies to do a better job of policing illegal content posted online —...
The Unsaid Truth About Larry King’s COVID-19 Risk Factors
Larry King Live host Larry King is not only at higher risk of COVID-19 complications because of his age, but his past health...
