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Thunder Bay police try to exclude footage of officers dragging an Indigenous man from inquest evidence
WARNING: This story contains content that some readers may find disturbing. Lawyers for a northern Ontario police force are trying to have video...
The unsaid truth about Michael Phelps’ Battle With Depression
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all-time as of this writing, has experienced his fair share of mental health struggles. Phelps’s experience...
What the cabinet shuffle does (and doesn’t) say about the next election
A cabinet shuffle in January (to borrow phrasing one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s predecessors) doesn’t necessarily mean an election — but this one does help position the...
Canada building facilities to make vaccines for COVID-19 and other viruses here
In the initial sprint to create a vaccine for COVID-19, Pfizer and Moderna crossed the finish line first. But for Canadian researchers who...
Can Wall Street help us find the true price of water?
You could be forgiven if, amid the recent chaos of COVID-19 and U.S. politics, you missed some news related to what is arguably Canada’s...
Canada shed 63,000 jobs in December
Canada’s economy lost 63,000 jobs last month, the first time the job market has contracted since the dark days of March and April,...
Back of the line: vaccines and the brawl over who goes first
Politicians might want to be careful about suggesting that people held in disrepute should be at the back of the line when health officials decide...
Canada cruises past Russia, advances to gold medal game at world juniors
One image served as goalie Devon Levi’s driving force as he and the other Canadian players waited out quarantine in their hotel rooms...
Knitting is helping this Canadian in Italy make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic
When Canadian lawyer Sarah McLean first took up knitting in 2017, she was drawn to the craft her grandmother loved as a way...
Alberta’s first 500 COVID deaths took nearly 9 months. The next 500 took just 34 days.
Alberta recently recorded its 1,000th COVID-19 death, a grim milestone that arrived in a flash. It took nearly nine months for Alberta to record...
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that’s no accident
The meaning behind Netflix’s The Platform is hard to miss: “an accidentally timely political allegory,” the New York Times called it, “a brutal...
Moms are welcoming the first wave of ‘coronial’ babies — but experts say to expect fewer births
Kennedy Amyotte’s first-born child will open her eyes to the world and see her mother’s face behind a mask. Due Jan. 13, she...
Anxious voters were looking for safety in pandemic-year elections
Canada’s electoral calendar was looking a little sparse around this date 12 months ago, with only one provincial election on the horizon. It suggested that...
Jennifer Lopez Dressed As One Of Alex Rodriguez’s Exes For Halloween
Jennifer Lopez explained how her whole year altered due to the coronavirus pandemic while chatting with Andy Cohen on Radio Andy, and how...
Trickster producers resign amid Michelle Latimer Indigenous identity questions
Two producers with the CBC television series Trickster announced their resignations on Friday, a day after the Indigenous identity claims of the show’s co-creator...
Exclusive golf course books $1 million surplus, aided by federal COVID-19 relief
This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the...
