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Muslim woman targeted in racist attack says call to Edmonton police left her doubly traumatized

A Black Muslim woman who was threatened and subjected to racial slurs at a south Edmonton LRT station says she has been doubly...

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Raptors’ Nurse, Siakam to miss Friday’s game due to COVID-19 protocols

Assistant coach Sergio Scariolo took charge of the Toronto Raptors on Friday night with head coach Nick Nurse and five other members of...

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Ontario is expanding asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in schools. Here’s what you need to know

Asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 in schools is ramping up across Ontario, following a directive from Education Minister Stephen Lecce earlier this month.   In this...

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Reopening plans ‘shortsighted,’ doctor says as Ontario reports 1,087 new COVID-19 cases

A doctor who was demoted after speaking out about the province’s handling of the pandemic expressed concern on Sunday about Ontario’s reopening plans as...

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Recurring leg injury forces Andreescu out of 3 more tournaments

Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu will miss three upcoming tournaments with a leg injury. Andreescu’s agent, Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy, confirmed her withdrawal...

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N.S. gunman’s spouse feared killing started while looking for her, documents say

The partner of a man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last April confided in a friend that she feared the gunman had...

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In vow to protect campus free speech, Quebec premier joins global ‘war on woke’

Quebec Premier François Legault has steered his government toward yet another divisive ideological debate by declaring his intention to move swiftly to protect campus free speech...

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Foster teen killed in Ontario home run by for-profit company

Battered, bloody and nearly naked, 15-year-old David Roman made a simple plea moments before he was stabbed to death in an Ontario foster...

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‘Meant to be’: How this WW II veteran cheated death 4 times to find love

Reg Harrison slides his leather wallet out of his pocket and removes a weathered black-and-white photo of a beautiful woman. “I’ve been carrying...

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Alberta pandemic danger pay program causes confusion among workers, unions

A new program that will pay some frontline workers $1,200 for risking their health during the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving some employees and...

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Ex-wife of Christine Jessop’s killer talks about coming to grips with the awful truth

Heather Hoover still has the last photo Christine Jessop gave her in 1984. It’s a school picture of the nine-year-old in a white...

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Bracing for ‘a tax season like no other,’ CRA hires private firm to answer Canadians’ questions

Preparing for what promises to be an extraordinarily busy tax season, the federal government is taking the unusual step of hiring a private company to...

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Mom who lost son to tainted drugs disgusted by business-led push to move potential supervised consumption site

A Barrie, Ont., mother whose son died from consuming tainted drugs says she was disgusted to discover the city’s business leaders are paying...

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Left out of the COVID-19 pay bump, Manitoba ER nurses say they feel abandoned by province, union

An emergency room nurse at Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Hospital is struggling to provide care to three patients with COVID-19. Two of them are...

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Here’s why COVID-19 numbers have dropped among B.C.’s South Asian population

Community organizers in British Columbia are being credited with helping to bring down the spread of COVID-19 within the South Asian community. “There’s...

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Riding out the pandemic on Lake Ontario

The pandemic has driven many Canadians deeper into their winter burrows to binge watch shows until warmer weather returns, but some have decided...