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Binge or watch live? Viewing habits change as pandemic recedes
Adjust your calendars accordingly, Wednesday is the new Friday. According to Disney. The studio recently announced that it will begin releasing all its original...
How to make sense of the new findings on ‘forever chemicals’ in makeup
People who wear makeup such as lipstick or mascara may be absorbing or licking up potentially harmful ingredients that hang around for decades...
False sightings, reports of gunfire: Court documents reveal details of RCMP response to N.S. mass shooting
The first RCMP officers to arrive in Portapique, N.S., during last year’s shooting rampage thought they had spotted the gunman, but learned hours later...
Black employees slam Ontario Public Service for rampant, systemic racism
On his first day as a corrections officer at a Toronto jail, Glendon Thomas was barred from entering. Back in 2004 as a Black...
Burnaby School District apologizes for exam asking how First Nations benefited from colonial relationships
The superintendent of the Burnaby School District has issued an apology after a question on a Grade 9 social studies test asked students to...
‘A great day’: Electronic logging devices becoming mandatory in semi trucks in Canada to combat driver fatigue
A new era in highway safety regulation begins in Canada on Saturday as electronic logging devices that track a driver’s hours behind the wheel...
B.C. First Nation organizes 3-day healing walk in wake of Kamloops residential school discovery
WARNING: This story contains distressing details Hundreds of people have embarked on a trek along the South Thompson River from Kamloops to B.C.’s Shuswap,...
Speakers denounce anti-Muslim hate at vigil for family killed in attack
Fourteen-year-old Hateem Amin was determined to attend the outdoor vigil in London, Ont., to honour her 15-year old friend Yumna Afzaal and three family members who were run down and...
Fully vaccinated rotational workers will no longer need to self-isolate upon entry to N.S.
Effective Tuesday, rotational workers who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will no longer need to self-isolate upon entering Nova Scotia....
The House: Is it past time Canada had an Indigenous governor general?
The federal cabinet minister leading the search for a new governor general says background checks on the short list of candidates are nearly finished. But...
Instructions for outfitting an RCMP car were left on federal website after Nova Scotia attacks in 2020
More than a year after a gunman’s lookalike RCMP car helped him move through Nova Scotia undetected and kill 22 people, federal officials...
Partially paralyzed Indigenous man left in wheelchair he can’t operate outside Toronto ER files complaint
It felt like –7 C outside when Charles Hussin found himself kicked out of a downtown Toronto hospital’s emergency department in January and...
Doug Ford’s PCs enter final year before election in the lead, but vulnerable
With exactly one year to go before the 2022 Ontario provincial election, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives still have the upper hand in...
Why experts say 2nd vaccine doses should be rolled out now
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you...
Fort McMurray student earns big scholarships for computer science innovations
A 17-year-old Fort McMurray student has been offered four scholarships with a combined value of almost $250,000 for his innovative ventures in computer science....
Studies reveal the unintended consequences of delaying surgeries, drop in ER visits due to pandemic
“If it’s a COVID death or a COVID case, it’s important. Otherwise it doesn’t matter.” That’s how Sean Perkins said his experience in the Ontario...
