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Is more testing behind the record numbers of COVID-19 cases in Canada? Your testing questions answered

We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...

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Despite convictions for assault, drunk driving only 7 Toronto cops fired at discipline tribunal over 10 years

A quarter of the disciplinary hearings held for Toronto police officers in the last decade involved an officer who was guilty of crimes...

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Meet the Toronto carpenter building insulated, mobile shelters for homeless people this winter

The small wooden structure inside Khaleel Seivwright’s rented Cabbagetown workshop looks something like an oversized shoebox, or perhaps a transport crate for a...

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RCMP and CBSA officers to face questions over Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in extradition case

The RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency officers who detained Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver’s airport in December 2018 will speak publicly for the...

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Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Friday

The latest: Health officials across the country are asking Canadians to continue following COVID-19 safety measures and protocols as the number of confirmed cases...

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Western provinces seeing some of their highest numbers yet in new COVID-19 cases

The latest: B.C., Alberta report highest single-day increases in COVID-19 cases. Alberta minister tests positive, premier self-isolates. Manitoba says 27 COVID-19 cases at poultry plant...

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Aviation workers call for federal plan as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in parts of Canada

The latest: Canadian aviation workers continue to urgently press the federal government for a plan to rescue the industry as the spread of...

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Canadians applying for new pandemic benefit report confusion, frustration

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that applying for the new Canada Recovery Benefit would be “simple” and that no Canadian would be left behind in the...

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WestJet’s retreat from Atlantic Canada pushes the federal government into a corner

Two hours after WestJet announced on Wednesday that it was curtailing its flights to and from Atlantic Canada, an email went out to...

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Vehicle torched, lobster pounds storing Mi’kmaw catches trashed during night of unrest in N.S.

The ongoing tensions surrounding the First Nations lobster harvest in southwest Nova Scotia erupted Tuesday night when several hundred commercial fishermen and their...

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‘They chose the wrong person’: Pierre Laporte’s son reflects on his murder 50 years after October Crisis

It’s been almost 50 years since Jean Laporte learned from a television report that his father had been killed by a radical group...

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Technical glitches briefly mar first day of applications for Canada Recovery Benefit

Canadians seeking to access new financial support after missing work because of COVID-19 appeared to briefly run into technical glitches as applications opened for...

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After 37 years, convicted B.C. child killer to argue wrongful conviction

On an October day in 1983 in the coastal B.C. town of Prince Rupert, a first-degree murder trial began for a 17-year-old named...

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Canada added 378,000 jobs in September, even more than in August

Canada’s economy added 378,000 new jobs in September, Statistics Canada says, almost all of which were full-time positions. September’s job gains mean that...

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Football pioneer Emmarae Dale meets her moment in history

Emmarae Dale has been part of big games her entire life. She knows what it’s like to have pregame jitters, both as a...

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Trudeau says any approved COVID-19 vaccine will be free for all Canadians

The latest: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday any COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada will be free for all Canadians through the...