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ex minister says comments accusing officials of ignoring money laundering were meant to stay private
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Ex-minister says comments accusing officials of ignoring money laundering were meant to stay private

A former B.C. cabinet minister who once said his colleague was complicit in the province’s failure to address the issue of money laundering...

an ugly stain for years to come laurentian university interests reeling from staff program cuts
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‘An ugly stain for years to come’: Laurentian University interests reeling from staff, program cuts

Monday was one of the worst days on record for the Laurentian University community, with the news roughly 100 professors lost their jobs...

red cross distributes nearly 6 2m to families after n s mass shooting
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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...

mistaken arrest of black teen a case of racial profiling family says
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Mistaken arrest of Black teen a case of racial profiling, family says

A Toronto family is pressing police for answers after a bungled arrest left a 17-year-old “traumatized” in what it believes was a case of racial profiling. ...

canadian explorer to attempt 1st human powered crossing of turks and caicos islands
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Canadian explorer to attempt 1st human-powered crossing of Turks and Caicos Islands

Toronto-based explorer Mario Rigby spent two years crossing the African continent on foot. Last summer, he paddled the length of Lake Ontario in...

sexual harassment complaint tossed after human rights commission mistake
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Sexual harassment complaint tossed after Human Rights Commission mistake

A Halifax woman’s sexual harassment complaint against her former employer has been thrown out after the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission made a...

ottawa blames retired senator survivors for undermining trust in residential school compensation system
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Ottawa blames retired senator, survivors for undermining trust in residential school compensation system

The federal government blames the comments of survivors and public officials, including retired senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,...

marketplace attended a covid 19 conspiracy boot camp to see how instructors are targeting vaccine skeptics
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Marketplace attended a COVID-19 conspiracy boot camp to see how instructors are targeting vaccine skeptics

While Canadian health authorities fight back against what Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has called “an infodemic” — the spread of false information...

colten boushies family to speak out on racial discrimination found in scathing report about rcmp
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Colten Boushie’s family to speak out on racial discrimination found in scathing report about RCMP

The family of Colten Boushie, the young Indigenous man from Saskatchewan whose shooting death was investigated by the RCMP in 2016, will speak...

jews in russian city scarred by wwii massacre watch canadas decision on nazi interpreter
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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...

controversial neck hold still being used by mounties as rcmp reviews its safety
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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...

rogers fines 91 year old woman unable to return equipment due to lockdown
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Rogers fines 91-year-old woman unable to return equipment due to lockdown

The family of a 91-year-old woman is outraged Rogers had demanded she pay hundreds of dollars for failing to return phone and internet...

rogers signs deal to buy shaw in transaction valued at 26b
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Rogers signs deal to buy Shaw in transaction valued at $26B

Rogers Communications has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at $26 billion, including debt, which would create Canada’s No. 2...

st johns firefighters grounded as helicopter rescue team remains in holding pattern
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St. John’s firefighters grounded, as helicopter rescue team remains in ‘holding pattern’

The helicopter rescue team normally called in to pluck wayward wanderers from cliffs and transport injured hikers from remote inaccessible locations around St....

manitoba rcmp say a first nations man assaulted an officer court documents suggest thats not what happened
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Manitoba RCMP say a First Nations man assaulted an officer. Court documents suggest that’s not what happened

On June 6, 2019, Brian Halcrow woke up in a jail cell in Thompson, Man., with four stitches across his forehead, a torn-up sweater and...

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