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Saskatoon doctor’s intuition leads to rescue of 29 people poisoned with carbon monoxide

A carbon monoxide leak from a boiler in a Saskatoon apartment building sent 29 people to hospital Thursday. It all began when an emergency...

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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...

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Thunder Bay police try to exclude footage of officers dragging an Indigenous man from inquest evidence

WARNING: This story contains content that some readers may find disturbing. Lawyers for a northern Ontario police force are trying to have video...

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Defence lawyer says police should not be using Quebec curfew as excuse to search personal property

Sarah Vresk was heading to work at around 4 a.m. Tuesday when she was stopped near her home by Montreal police and asked...

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Pandemic expanded online grocery shopping and delivery, but experts say in-store customers will be back

Online orders and delivery from Canada’s major grocers have gone from novel to normal since the pandemic began, accelerating a move to e-shopping that was...

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Canadian internet sleuths, anti-hate group helping to identify Capitol rioters

As more and more cellphone videos surface of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last week, Canadians are leading some of...

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How I spent a year learning to respect my body instead of wishing for a different one

This is an opinion piece by Martha Neovard, a childbirth and infant feeding educator — and a mother of three — in southern Saskatchewan. For...

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Quebec’s COVID-19 curfew officially takes effect

Smartphones across Quebec buzzed Saturday with an emergency alert like no other: Be inside by 8 p.m., or face a fine. In an...

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WestJet cutting jobs and slashing flight capacity by 1/3

WestJet is cutting jobs and slashing its flight capacity by a third because of what the airline calls “instability in the face of...

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How loved-ones are honouring the memory of those killed in Iran’s Flight 752 air disaster

Twelve months after an Iranian missile shot down a plane carrying 176 people, including 55 Canadians and many others with strong ties here,...

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New COVID-19 boarding rules for airlines will be tighter than expected, industry sources say

Despite reassuring words from the minister of transport last week, airlines have been told new regulations that come into effect Thursday are not expected to give...

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Canadian travel agents call for bailout after being forced to repay commissions on cancelled vacations

When borders around the world started to close in the spring, travel agents hustled to get their clients home. Cathy Cordy stayed on...

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Court documents reveal more details about 2017 homicide of Barry and Honey Sherman

As the calendar flipped to 2021, the police investigation into the deaths of Canadian billionaire philanthropists Honey and Barry Sherman entered its fourth...

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New rules on removal of illegal online content could help in battle against child pornography

The federal heritage minister will soon introduce legislation aimed at compelling companies to do a better job of policing illegal content posted online —...

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Knitting is helping this Canadian in Italy make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic

When Canadian lawyer Sarah McLean first took up knitting in 2017, she was drawn to the craft her grandmother loved as a way...

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Dildo was hoping to cash in on a post-Kimmel boom — then came the pandemic

Sulagna Sanyal, left, and Rajesh Menon opened Yes B’y Indian Restaurant in the Newfoundland community of Dildo this past summer. (Chris O’Neill-Yates/CBC) When...