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Canadian Screen Awards: Schitt’s Creek leads nominations for 3rd year running

Well into its third year of topping awards shows, comedy Schitt’s Creek led the nominations for this year’s Canadian Screen Awards with 21 nods.  The...

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Uber’s proposed revamp of provincial labour laws would cement the notion that gig workers are not employees

This column is an opinion by Paris Marx, a socialist writer and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. For more information about CBC’s Opinion...

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‘It’s silly’: Director of Bigfoot movie thanks campaign by Alberta’s energy war room

The director of a children’s movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government’s energy centre for starting a “ludicrous” fight over the...

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Small towns dig deep during pandemic to save their rinks and halls, one cheesecake at a time

As a national news reporter for CBC, I usually cover the most pressing stories from my province — and there have been plenty...

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Supreme Court carbon tax ruling: The last ride of the resistance?

This column is an opinion from Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist at the University of Alberta. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section,...

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Auditor general reports today on public health agency’s pandemic response

The country’s auditor general will deliver a report today on how well prepared the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was to respond to the COVID-19...

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After COVID-19 outbreak in retirement home, families want mandatory vaccines for staff

Even though Susan Asa-Katz’s mother is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the 92-year-old spent last week isolated in her room after unvaccinated staff at...

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As Quebec’s economic recovery gallops ahead, many risk being left behind

Quebec’s economy is roaring back to life after a year of closures, restrictions and curfews, according to economists at the major banks. Finance...

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An animated history of elections gone sideways in N.L.

Burned ballots, angry mobs, candidates tossed in jail: elections in Newfoundland & Labrador have seen it all. (Katie Rowe/CBC) With its shifting deadlines, mail-in...

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Alberta to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions

The latest: A cabinet committee of Alberta’s United Conservative government is expected to meet Monday to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions....

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Couples fight for refunds after COVID-19 cancels wedding events

Joyce Fung and Calvin Chan thought they’d be newlyweds by now — partway through their first year of wedded bliss, not still locked...

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Anand says AstraZeneca doses could arrive from the U.S. this week

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa could take delivery of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine doses from the United States as early as this week. Ottawa’s...

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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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Ankylosaurs dug into the ground to protect themselves, Alberta paleontologist says

In 2008, paleontologist Phil Currie returned to a remote location in Mongolia to collect the skeleton of an ankylosaur he first came upon in 1999. That specimen...

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Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service

For the generation comfortable communicating using only emojis or through TikTok videos, it’s a baffling sight still found in many offices: a bulky...

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Ontario’s 3rd wave of COVID-19 could hit younger adults harder. Here’s why

In Scarborough, the east-end Toronto area that’s been hit hard by the pandemic, Dr. Lisa Salamon was shocked by the impact of COVID-19...