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High schoolers, educators worry condensed schedules will bring ‘information overload’
High schoolers After landing her best-ever grade in math last year, high school senior Kamaldeep Dhillon has struggled with the subject this year...
Conservative MP calls for nationwide three-digit suicide hotline
As health professionals warn that the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on many Canadians’ mental health, a Conservative MP is calling on the federal...
Canada’s opioid crisis killed 13 people a day in 2018, prevention report shows
About 13 people a day in Canada died as a result of opioids in 2018, according to a new report that shines a...
Canadian economic decision-makers press pause for U.S. election outcome
With a pandemic, a minority government in Ottawa and a crumbling energy sector, the Canadian economy is already in a period of great...
Why experts aren’t declaring victory yet despite fewer COVID-19 deaths so far in Ontario’s 2nd wave
As Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case counts have risen this fall, those with an eye on the data may see reason for optimism in...
Federal government to announce new immigration targets today
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino will unveil a three-year immigration plan today that will set targets for bringing skilled workers, family members and refugees...
Keep calm and borrow on: Chrystia Freeland and the new logic of deficits in a pandemic
During her remarks on how the pandemic is shifting Liberal fiscal policy Wednesday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that her words might sound scary to some Canadians — particularly those...
Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
The latest: French doctors expressed relief but business owners were in despair as France prepared Thursday to shut down again for a month...
Meet the Toronto carpenter building insulated, mobile shelters for homeless people this winter
The small wooden structure inside Khaleel Seivwright’s rented Cabbagetown workshop looks something like an oversized shoebox, or perhaps a transport crate for a...
Canada’s transport regulator hasn’t settled a single COVID-19 flight cancellation complaint
The Canadian Transportation Agency has failed to settle a single complaint from Canadians demanding refunds for cancelled flights since the onset of the...
B.C. NDP will form decisive majority government, CBC News projects
The NDP will form a historic majority government in British Columbia for the first time in more than 20 years, CBC News projects, as...
Justin Trudeau asked to help with Jordan Naterer search during Memorial University town hall
Fresh off surviving a confidence vote on a Conservative motion to look into the government’s ethics and pandemic spending, a relaxed-looking Justin Trudeau held...
WestJet’s retreat from Atlantic Canada pushes the federal government into a corner
Two hours after WestJet announced on Wednesday that it was curtailing its flights to and from Atlantic Canada, an email went out to...
An Innu teen died in care. Now a fired social worker is speaking out
Wally Rich, a 15-year-old from Natuashish, took his own life in a Labrador group home in May. (Submitted by Innu Nation) The system...
Give young people alternatives, not lectures, to manage COVID-19 spread, say experts
Young people are among the most prolific spreaders of COVID-19, and while health authorities and schools continue to issue heavy-handed warnings, some experts...
‘They chose the wrong person’: Pierre Laporte’s son reflects on his murder 50 years after October Crisis
It’s been almost 50 years since Jean Laporte learned from a television report that his father had been killed by a radical group...
