food
Searching for food in the wild: Foraging takes off as popular pastime on P.E.I.
Josie Baker uses stinging nettles in many different dishes, including this pasta she created in 2020. (Submitted by Josie Baker) More Prince Edward...
Canada adds jobs, unemployment falls to 7.5% despite 3rd wave of COVID-19
Despite a third wave of COVID-19, Canada’s unemployment rate fell to a post-pandemic low of 7.5 per cent in March as the economy added...
‘If you’re sick, stay home’ is a non-starter for many Canadians
The debate around paid sick leave has grown louder and more urgent in the past several weeks as COVID-19 cases have continued to soar...
Canada is touting hydrogen as crucial to its climate action plan, but how green is it?
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Shortage of N.B. health-care providers forces student to pay out of pocket to see gynecologist
Mhàiri Agnew has suffered from recurring abdominal pain for more than half of her life. When she first complained as a child, her longtime...
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,...
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...
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...
Want to know how much added sugar is in your favourite foods? Canadian companies don’t have to tell you
Despite having to disclose many details about ingredients, specific allergens, calorie counts and other nutritional information on labels, food manufacturers are not required...
As Quebec’s economic recovery gallops ahead, many risk being left behind
Quebec’s economy is roaring back to life after a year of closures, restrictions and curfews, according to economists at the major banks. Finance...
Alberta to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions
The latest: A cabinet committee of Alberta’s United Conservative government is expected to meet Monday to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions....
B.C. boy permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli
E. coli outbreaks used to mainly be linked to hamburgers, but the last decade has seen recall after recall of tainted romaine lettuce...
New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease
Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a...
Peter Nygard has phone in jail cell for constant contact with legal team, court documents reveal
Peter Nygard has been given what no other inmate at Manitoba’s Headingley Correctional Centre has access to: a phone in his cell that he...
How the COVID-19 pandemic turned an empty Yellowknife motel into a hub of support
In March 2020, before the pandemic hit, a rust-coloured former motel near Yellowknife’s downtown sat fully furnished and empty, while elsewhere in the city, people experiencing...
Compressed air, flywheels and more: Energy storage solutions being tested in Canada
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