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Genealogy buff delighted to find he helped solve Jessop cold case — but also learns he’s killer’s cousin

Ken, a retired software developer from Toronto, is the consummate genealogy buff. He wrote a book about his maternal family, is working on...

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Trudeau government won’t say who got billions of dollars in aid

This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during...

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Not even the COVID-19 crisis can hold back Christmas shoppers with ‘savings hoard’ to unload

Boarded-up shop fronts and well-publicized cries of pain from retailers might leave you thinking the pandemic is the Grinch that stole Christmas shopping....

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Mortgage rates hit a new low, with Canadian bank posting below 1%

HSBC has come out with a variable rate mortgage at 0.99 per cent, which industry watchers believe is the first such posted offer below...

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

The latest: Quebec, Ontario and Alberta report record increase in new cases Saturday. Chief public health officer warns of ‘long road ahead,’ despite upcoming vaccine rollout. Manitoba...

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Singer’s live performance in computer-generated nightclub could be a model for concerts in a COVID world

How’s this for a pandemic performance: a Vancouver singer recently gave a live concert at a downtown supper club to an estimated 4,000...

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Manitoba First Nations disproportionately hit by COVID-19 with 11 deaths, 625 cases in past week

COVID-19 continues to disproportionately affect First Nations people in Manitoba, with 625 new cases and 11 deaths related to the illness in the past...

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Common-law spouse among 3 charged with giving N.S. shooter ammunition

The common-law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people in April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia has been charged with providing...

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Canada reaches grim milestone of 400,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases

The latest: Long-term care workers, residents should be first in line for COVID-19 vaccine, committee says. Quebec reports 1,345 new COVID-19 cases and 28 more deaths, day after province cancels plans to allow...

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Families of rail workers killed in B.C. crash call on Trudeau, RCMP to probe alleged coverup

Families of three rail workers killed in a crash in the Rockies of eastern B.C. almost two years ago are calling on the...

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Pandemic leaves students with disabilities disconnected from peers and short on support

Navigating school this fall has meant a host of new challenges for learners with disabilities, with both students and families often having to advocate...

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Cold weather brings wet masks and other pandemic-related challenges

There is a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon. But first, winter.  We’ve been hearing the warnings for weeks. It’s going to be a...

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Where you live is who you are: Erin O’Toole and the new culture war

In the midst of the worst public health emergency in a century and the greatest economic disruption since the Great Depression, Erin O’Toole...

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The 1976 U.S. swine flu vaccinations may offer lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic

For Pascal Imperato, a communicable disease epidemiologist who in 1976 was in charge of immunizing New York City against a potential swine flu epidemic, the...

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Why some travellers get permission to cross the Canada-U.S. border and others don’t

Kim Zavesky is desperate to return to her home in Golden, B.C. After retiring last year, she and her husband — both Americans...

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Alberta planning COVID-19 field hospitals for 750 patients, internal document shows

An internal Alberta government document shows the province has been planning for more than a week to set up indoor field hospitals to...