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Canadian among private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station

The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men, including a Canadian, who are each paying $55 million US ($70 million) to...

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Mystery guest takes over Jasper Park Lodge — the entire hotel — for 9-week booking

All 446 rooms at Alberta’s iconic Jasper Park Lodge have been reserved for a nine-week private booking, but hotel management is keeping mum about the...

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Most new Order of Canada appointees are white men, despite diversity-boosting efforts

Most of the new appointees to the Order of Canada in 2020 were white men, despite some progress made in boosting the diversity of...

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After the gold rush: Why Neil Young and other aging rockers are cashing in on song publishing

In Neil Young’s 1979 song Hey Hey, My My the Canadian musician sang that rock could never die, adding: “Out of the blue...

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Knitting is helping this Canadian in Italy make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic

When Canadian lawyer Sarah McLean first took up knitting in 2017, she was drawn to the craft her grandmother loved as a way...

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The pandemic unexpectedly saved thousands from financial ruin. But there’s a reckoning on the horizon

This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during...

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Here’s why Sister Wives star Kody Brown had to file for bankruptcy

According to court documents obtained by Radar Online, Kody Brown and his first wife, Meri Brown, filed the bankruptcy papers in June 2005....

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RCMP took 19 hours to find parents, daughter killed in Nova Scotia mass shooting in April

Tammy Oliver-McCurdie lost her younger sister, Jolene Oliver, in last April’s mass shooting in Portapique, N.S., and her worst fear remains that the 39-year-old...

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Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are not immune from the struggles of pandemic-rattled premiers

Alberta is now one of Canada’s worst COVID-19 hotspots and Premier Jason Kenney’s handling of the pandemic in his province is getting low...

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Why COVID-19 cases are surging across Canada and what needs to be done

This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet,...

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Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world Wednesday

The latest: A B.C. health authority facing an uptick in COVID-19 cases — including a recent dance studio outbreak now linked to 36...

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Halloween costumes stored in the metaphorical CBC Archives basement

Here it is, the proof that these Halloween costumes existed, even if you forgot about them. We ventured down the steps of the...

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Is more testing behind the record numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada? Your testing questions answered

We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...

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‘It’s not easy’: Survivors of deadly Icefield tour bus crash near Jasper, Alta., file $17M lawsuit

An Alberta woman who survived the deadly crash of a tour bus in Jasper National Park this summer says she lives with the...

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Amid surge in COVID-19 transmission, physicians warn Ontario’s testing, tracing plans fall short

Amid a surge of coronavirus transmission in Ontario, some physicians warn the province’s plan to ramp up efforts to prevent new infections will fall short...

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A throne speech long on language and ambition, short on specifics

However grandly it’s staged, a throne speech is a difficult thing to judge. Just ask the opposition parties. The first official review of Wednesday’s...