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How a ‘hotshot whiz-kid’ ensnared a Sask. company in a $97.5M deal riddled with red flags

Input Capital, a publicly traded company based in Regina, says it is investigating after its $97.5-million proposed sale to smooth-talking American businessman Eric...

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Governor General announces 61 new Order of Canada appointments

A public health researcher, a disability sports advocate and several trailblazing women who achieved firsts in their fields are among the 61 people...

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Exclusive golf course books $1 million surplus, aided by federal COVID-19 relief

This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the...

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Why millions of dollars in pandemic aid is going to corporations making healthy profits

This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the first...

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Families of rail workers killed in B.C. crash call on Trudeau, RCMP to probe alleged coverup

Families of three rail workers killed in a crash in the Rockies of eastern B.C. almost two years ago are calling on the...

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What we expect from regional and city governments is increasingly out of step with their powers

This column is an opinion by Tomas Hachard, manager of programs and research at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University...

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Sports groups defrauded by their own members face uphill battle in rebuilding community trust

Whenever an organization is the victim of theft, the impact can be deep and long lasting. When money is stolen by an employee...

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Canadian youth sports groups are losing millions of dollars to fraud and theft

For the Corner Brook Minor Hockey Association, it was like being on the receiving end of an open-ice body check.  It was in...

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Canada condemns removal of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators

Canada’s top diplomat says China is flouting its international obligations with its latest move to quash dissent in Hong Kong.  Earlier this week, China’s...

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Alberta premier says resource project financing depends on climate progress

Jason Kenney says access to capital for projects in the oil and gas industry requires action on environmental issues from industry and government,...

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As COVID-19 curve flattens, Indigenous leaders call on federal government for more support

While the federal government says the COVID-19 curve is continuing to flatten in Indigenous communities, their leaders and allies are keeping pressure on Ottawa...

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Alberta purges judicial vetting committee for former Tory cabinet ministers, political supporters

Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer purged the entire committee that vets potential provincial court judges and recruited new members through a closed process...

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RCMP watchdog’s misconduct reports caught in limbo, stalling their release

The RCMP continues to mull over a number of high-profile investigations completed by its watchdog body involving allegations of Mountie misbehaviour — ultimately stalling their release and raising...

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Across the North, Indigenous communities are redefining conservation

In a packed gym in Colville Lake, N.W.T., Chief Wilbert Kochon leans into a microphone. Across a roughly-arranged square of folding tables, officials...

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‘Follow the evidence, find the truth’ goal of reinvestigation of deaths of 9 Indigenous people in Thunder Bay

A dedicated group of officers from the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) and the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) are reviewing the old...

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First Nations vote unlikely to hit levels seen in 2015 election, say experts

The First Nations vote might not turn out at the polls later this month in the high numbers seen at the end of the...

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