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CRA sending details of bank accounts to IRS that don’t have to be reported

The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they...

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Great COVID-19 bicycle boom expected to keep bike industry on its toes for years to come

Some bicycle shops across Canada are so busy with a pandemic-triggered boom in sales and its subsequent backlog that even answering phone calls is a struggle. At Sidesaddle Bike Shop in Vancouver,...

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Jews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada’s decision on Nazi interpreter

As the evening light falls over the gentle slope of the ravine, Natalia Yefimushkina, her head tightly bound in a red scarf, stares...

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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...

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Nova Scotia to lift quarantine rules for New Brunswick travellers

[embedded content] New Brunswickers coming into Nova Scotia soon will no longer have to self-isolate when entering Nova Scotia. The change will take...

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CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash

WARNING: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train...

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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...

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Dramatic rise in reports of sexual assaults doesn’t lead to similar rise in charges

Reports of sexual assault to police are up significantly across the country, especially on P.E.I. where they have more than doubled in the past...

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Genetic genealogy pushes Toronto detectives close to identifying killer in 2 cold cases from 1983

Detectives with the Toronto Police Service say they are close to identifying the killer responsible for two cold cases from 1983. They have...

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Rogers-Shaw merger offers chance for Ottawa to insist on better deal for cellphone customers

Before the days of COVID-19 vaccine delays, there were few things Canadians liked to complain about more than the high cost of their...

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A year of misfortune: How the global pandemic has battered N.L.’s oil and gas industry

Amanda Young had her dream job as a cook on the Terra Nova FPSO, one of four oil-producing platforms in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. “We...

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How a client-therapist relationship left one Nova Scotian feeling more hurt than healed

Taron expected the counsellor would offer help to recover from complex post-traumatic stress disorder.  Instead, more than four years after the first therapy...

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Military conducted secret investigation of reservist Patrik Mathews as a possible terrorist threat

The military’s counter-intelligence unit secretly investigated Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — as a possible terrorist...

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From restaurant staff to pilots, pandemic is pushing people in hard-hit professions to retrain for new jobs

When COVID-19 hit, Ryan Sullivan was a pilot for Porter Airlines and he loved his job. These days, though, he spends his days...

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Ford recalling nearly 275,000 vehicles in Canada, mainly over rupturing airbag concerns

Ford Motor Co. has issued two safety recalls involving airbags and tires and affecting more than 2.6 million vehicles in North America, including...

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N.S. health records stored in an outdated, patchwork system, Desmond inquiry hears

Nova Scotia stores patient files in a patchwork of outdated digital medical databases, meaning physicians may get a limited scope of a person’s medical history,...