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Immigrants face financial, emotional ruin as plans to resettle in Canada are clipped by COVID-19

Those who were on the verge of immigrating to Canada before the pandemic struck say the government’s sluggish effort to renew their immigration...

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2 dead in construction mishap in London, Ont., recovery effort underway for one body

Heavy equipment was brought in Saturday in an effort to recover the body of a worker trapped in the rubble of a partial...

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2 dead, 4 in hospital after partial building collapse at London, Ont., construction site

Two people have died and four others remain in hospital after a building partially collapsed Friday in London, Ont. Doctors at the London Health...

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Common-law spouse among 3 charged with giving N.S. shooter ammunition

The common-law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people in April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia has been charged with providing...

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Canadian actor Elliot Page shares he is transgender

Elliot Page, Halifax’s own Hollywood star, has shared that he is transgender. The actor is known for his Oscar-nominated role in Juno, as well as Inception and...

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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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Doug Fung was released from hospital. 9 days later, he died from COVID-19 complications

When Doug Fung was released from North Vancouver’s Lion’s Gate Hospital, where he was being treated for cancer, his wife Bronwyn James knew something was...

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Colleagues, friends reflect on fallen Manitoulin Island OPP officer

A retired OPP officer and former colleague of Constable Marc Hovingh says all of Ontario’s Manitoulin Island is in a state of shock...

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Pandemic is making life even more perilous for the 420 million children in conflict zones

This column is an opinion by Bill Chambers, the president and CEO of Save the Children in Canada. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please...

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Buyer beware: Ottawa fails to track thousands of puppies, some carrying diseases, imported to Canada each year

The federal government fails to maintain a central database to track the thousands of puppies imported to Canada every year, CBC’s Marketplace has...

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7 residents dead at Scarborough long-term care home battling COVID-19 outbreak

Seven residents have died at a Scarborough, Ont., long-term care home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak, while 136 other residents and 66...

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Remembering In Flanders Fields: Why John McCrae’s poignant WW I words still have power today

Like so many things in 2020, Canada’s Remembrance Day ceremonies will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities will still commemorate their war...

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How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day

On a grey, windswept spring day three years ago, Ryan Mullens sat next to the grave of a long-dead soldier in the green...

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‘I want him to see the pain’: Virtual trial for accused Toronto van attacker means no day in court for victims

The trial of Alek Minassian, the man accused of committing one of Canada’s worst instances of mass violence when he drove a van into...

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3 dead, 1 injured after shooting in rural Vancouver Island community

Police are investigating after the discovery Sunday of three bodies and another person who was injured in a popular off-roading area near a rural Vancouver Island...

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Suspect arrested after sword attack in Quebec City leaves 2 dead, 5 injured

A suspect was arrested early Sunday morning in the historic district of Quebec City after two people were stabbed to death and five were injured by...