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Time to ‘defund the police’? Outrage over brutality, racism in U.S. casts new light on Toronto’s police budget

Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet still be alive if a mental health nurse had turned up when her family called 911, instead of just police officers? What...

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New COVID-19 projections show virus is in decline, but Canada isn’t ‘out of the woods’ yet: Trudeau

While new federal figures show the emergence of new cases of COVID-19 is slowing in some parts of Canada, the pandemic continues — and some...

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Meng Wanzhou extradition hearings could extend into 2021

Legal arguments at the B.C. Supreme Court in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou may stretch into next year. Crown lawyer...

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Long-term care home resident first New Brunswicker to die of COVID-19, says family

A resident of a long-term care home in northern New Brunswick who tested positive for COVID-19 has died of the virus, according to family. Daniel...

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Doctor linked to Campbellton COVID-19 cluster says he made ‘an error in judgment’

The doctor at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Campbellton, N.B., area says he’s not sure whether he picked up the...

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RCMP officer removed from Nunavut community after video surfaces of arrest

An RCMP officer in Kinngait, Nunavut, has been removed from the community and placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced on social...

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Why Winnipeg ought to be the pandemic envy of North America

Winnipeggers are used to looking around the world and wondering, on occasion, why they choose to live here. Winters bring biting cold. Every other spring...

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Why Winnipeg ought to be the pandemic envy of North America

Winnipeggers are used to looking around the world and wondering, on occasion, why they choose to live here. Winters bring biting cold. Every other spring...

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Alberta planning to create provincial parole board

Alberta will have its own parole board to hear applications from provincial inmates, should new legislation become law. The United Conservative Party government...

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5 cases of COVID-19 connected to long-term care facility in northern New Brunswick

Four residents and a staff member at a long-term care facility are among some of the most recent cases of COVID-19 in northern New...

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Coronavirus: What’s happening across Canada on Saturday

The latest: As efforts continue to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Canada, where the number of reported cases has surpassed 90,000, a cluster of...

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Tip 9 years ago warned that N.S gunman wanted ‘to kill a cop’

Police agencies across Nova Scotia were warned in May 2011 that a denturist named Gabriel Wortman had a stash of guns and said...

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What the oilpatch thinks about the financial aid offered by Ottawa

Not long after oil prices started their plunge in March, the calls for financial aid for Canada’s oilpatch began — and continued as...

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Housing market will feel effect of COVID-19 until 2022, CMHC says

Canada’s national housing agency says the number of new homes being built and sold will remain below the levels they were at before COVID-19...

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Thousands of jobs wiped out as COVID-19 shuts down in-person conferences, industry events

It’s no surprise that an industry dedicated to bringing large groups of people together in enclosed spaces would be crippled by the global...

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Military report reveals what sector has long known: Ontario’s nursing homes are in trouble

Jacqueline Mitchell hasn’t been able to hug her 94-old-mother since March, and now, in the face of a shocking Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)...