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Woman who was raped on Plenty of Fish first date is relieved attacker was deported
Warning: This story contains graphic language and disturbing content. A Regina woman who was sexually assaulted on a first date five years ago...
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. ...
Brian Nadler recounted troubled times at Saskatoon hospital to Nevada medical board
The doctor charged with first-degree murder in the death of an Ontario hospital patient — and who once told a U.S. medical board how...
Toronto mom spent her severance pay on car insurance, but ended up uninsured
Yasmine Sharaf thought she had scored a great deal on car insurance. The 48-year-old Toronto mother of three needed a lucky break; she had been...
Scientists, First Nations team up in fresh attempt to revive struggling B.C. herring stocks
Vancouver’s Coal Harbour hardly looks like a setting for a potential wildlife refuge. Noisy float planes skitter to and from a nearby dock,...
Federal court judge rules in favour of Acho Dene Koe First Nation member’s complaint about election delay
A federal court judge has ruled that the N.W.T. Acho Dene Koe First Nation chief and council overstepped their powers when they extended...
Protesters must clear Vancouver Island blockade or risk arrest after logging company wins injunction
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an injunction against protesters who have been blocking a forestry company for eight months from operating on Vancouver...
Crown accuses Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers of denying facts in bid to toss extradition
A lawyer for Canada’s attorney general says Meng Wanzhou’s defence team is ignoring basic facts of the case against their client by accusing...
Health officer warned RCMP of challenge identifying patient zero in Campbellton COVID outbreak
The medical officer of health in the Campbellton region warned RCMP it would be difficult to identify Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola as patient zero in the...
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...
Federal Court approves class-action lawsuit claiming RCMP doctors sexually assaulted recruits
Sylvie Corriveau has spent decades trying to sound the alarm over reports that some of the RCMP’s designated doctors have sexually abused patients. She said...
Bilingualism requirement for SCC justices creates ‘needless barrier’ for Indigenous candidates, critics say
As the first Indigenous justice appointed to a Canadian Court of Appeal in 2004, Harry LaForme seemed like an excellent candidate for the...
Uber’s proposed revamp of provincial labour laws would cement the notion that gig workers are not employees
This column is an opinion by Paris Marx, a socialist writer and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. For more information about CBC’s Opinion...
What a Legault-Trudeau detente might mean for the Liberals in Quebec
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ventured into Quebec twice in the past two weeks to make joint announcements with Premier François Legault. If their...
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,...
Federal carbon-offset proposal will likely give illusion of progress, even as it increases emissions
This column is an opinion by Nicholas Rivers, Mark Jaccard and Kathryn Harrison. Rivers is the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at...
