After getting his COVID-19 vaccine, this 103-year-old jazz musician was ready to do some drinking
Stanley Sepchuk was just a baby when the so-called Spanish flu killed tens of thousands of Canadians, but he got through it just fine.In his teens, he…
Pandemic job losses threaten to leave women behind permanently, RBC warns
Jerty Gaa is one of the nearly 500,000 women in Canada who remain unemployed amid the pandemic.She found herself on hiatus from her job as a hotel…
Benefits and risks of delaying 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Federal and provincial health officials are poring over emerging data on the advantages and disadvantages of extending the time between shots of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines. Here are…
Estate of slain Hells Angels prospect who led double life split between spouses in court battle
Michael Widner's death in March 2017 left a lot of questions unanswered — and not just for the investigators tasked with solving the targeted killing of a…
The Unsaid Reason Dolly Parton Is Calling People ‘Cowards’
In the nearly four-minute video, Dolly Parton is clad in a blue sparkly, long-sleeved shirt with openings in the sleeves, making it the perfect outfit for receiving…
In face of deadly pandemic, Ontario long-term care homes continue breaking COVID-19 safety rules
Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, inspectors were still catching Ontario long-term care homes violating crucial infection prevention and control measures.A CBC News data investigation has found…
Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in a foster home,…
Manitoba RCMP say a First Nations man assaulted an officer. Court documents suggest that’s not what happened
On June 6, 2019, Brian Halcrow woke up in a jail cell in Thompson, Man., with four stitches across his forehead, a torn-up sweater and no recollection…
Canada’s pipeline regulator says it’s taking a stand against systemic racism
Rueben George says he's not at all surprised that, in an era of racial reckoning, Canada's top pipeline regulator is signalling it wants to confront the problem…
Every household to get prepaid blank postcard courtesy of Canada Post
In an effort to encourage Canadians to keep in touch during the pandemic, Canada Post is sending every household a free postcard to mail to a loved…
Dissociative episodes made N.S. veteran relive time in Afghanistan, fatality inquiry hears
The military psychiatrist to first treat Lionel Desmond after he was released from the military said the veteran's post-traumatic stress disorder included dissociative events that would send…