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Former staffers say racism, sexual harassment rampant at Royal Canadian Mint
Female security guards at the Royal Canadian Mint operation in Ottawa faced constant sexual harassment and racial taunts while superiors either stood by...
Lulu Anderson: The history and present of Black civil rights in Alberta
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...
Sexual assault complainant details alleged abuse by junior hockey coach Bernie Lynch
It was the kind of offer a 17-year-old with big-league hockey ambitions didn’t feel he could turn down: A chance to be an...
Senate’s new harassment policy ‘a gift’ for would-be abusers, senator says
The Senate’s new harassment policy is “a gift” for would-be harassers because it creates a culture of secrecy that will shield wayward senators...
Commanding officers interfered in sexual assault investigations, retired military police officer says
A former military police officer says he faced commanding officers who interfered in his sexual assault cases and prosecutors who were reluctant to...
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...
N.S. gunman’s spouse feared killing started while looking for her, documents say
The partner of a man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last April confided in a friend that she feared the gunman had...
2 Canada Post workers in Regina suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times
Two Canada Post workers in Regina were temporarily suspended earlier this month after they refused to deliver the latest sample edition of the...
Hidden camera reveals ‘appalling’ conditions in overseas PPE factory supplying Canadian hospitals, expert says
The wall of noise is constant as the workers manually check, sort and pack a seemingly endless supply of disposable gloves into boxes...
Alberta’s first 500 COVID deaths took nearly 9 months. The next 500 took just 34 days.
Alberta recently recorded its 1,000th COVID-19 death, a grim milestone that arrived in a flash. It took nearly nine months for Alberta to record...
Winnipeg woman feared for her life as man in truck relentlessly rammed her car
A Winnipeg woman is certain she and her father could have died after she says a man in a white truck pursued her...
The 1976 U.S. swine flu vaccinations may offer lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic
For Pascal Imperato, a communicable disease epidemiologist who in 1976 was in charge of immunizing New York City against a potential swine flu epidemic, the...
Flu cases in Canada ‘exceptionally low’ so far, public health says
At this point in last year’s flu season, Canada had already recorded 711 positive cases of influenza. So far this year, there have...
James Bond actor Sean Connery dead at age 90
Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as suave, fearless secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role...
Judge tosses B.C. dads’ application for stricter COVID-19 protocols in schools
A bid by two dads to force the provincial government to implement mandatory masks and strict physical distancing in classrooms has been rejected...
