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Lawns gone wild: Why you might just have to learn to love dandelions

Let’s start by stating the abundantly obvious: It’s dandelion season. Peak dandelion season. That means your lawn is either a sea of beautiful golden...

July 17, 2021

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Saskatchewan released a road map to reopening after COVID-19. Should Ontario do the same?

Like many Ontarians, more than a year of on-and-off lockdown restrictions has taken a toll on Ross Kutisker-Jacobson. “I’ve lived with immense frustration...

July 17, 2021

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Woman whose frozen body found after release from jail died of overdose, Sask. coroner says

Kimberly Squirrel, a mother of six from the Yellow Quill First Nation whose frozen body was found in Saskatoon in January, was a victim...

July 17, 2021

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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...

July 17, 2021

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Canada’s nursing homes have worst record for COVID-19 deaths among wealthy nations: report

Canada has the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared with other wealthy countries, according to a new report released on...

July 17, 2021

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After COVID-19 outbreak in retirement home, families want mandatory vaccines for staff

Even though Susan Asa-Katz’s mother is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the 92-year-old spent last week isolated in her room after unvaccinated staff at...

July 17, 2021

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MPs set to vote on motion to recognize Emancipation Day across Canada

It was called “the greatest freedom show on earth.” From the Depression era until 1967, annual Emancipation Day celebrations on Aug. 1 drew big...

July 17, 2021

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Inquiry to learn more about Lionel Desmond’s in-patient psychiatric treatment

The Lionel Desmond inquiry will learn more about the two-and-a-half months the Afghanistan veteran spent at an in-patient psychiatric facility, with more employees...

July 17, 2021

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Mom vows to fight for daughter who died by suicide in hospital psychiatric unit

Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression, she took her boyfriend’s gun in the middle of the night, drove...

July 17, 2021

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Wedding dresses never worn, pets surrendered: Kijiji sales show people’s pandemic losses

As the World Health Organization prepared to declare COVID-19 a global pandemic last March, online classified platform Kijiji was inundated with high-priced listings for...

July 17, 2021

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Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic

Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of...

July 17, 2021

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More signals of a Roaring ’20s rebound for Canadian economy when pandemic ends

Gloomy headlines about the collapse of the Canadian economy, which faced its worst retreat since records began, may have obscured some startling new...

July 17, 2021

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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...

July 17, 2021

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Frustration grows among seniors and caregivers over Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Sam Meister is 98 years old, and he’s furious at the Ontario government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan that is forcing seniors like him to...

July 17, 2021

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Foster teen killed in Ontario home run by for-profit company

Battered, bloody and nearly naked, 15-year-old David Roman made a simple plea moments before he was stabbed to death in an Ontario foster...

July 17, 2021