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Distillers scrambled to make hand sanitizer for free. Then the federal government moved on

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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Indigenous tourism group paid CEO $25K bonus days after it was tasked to distribute COVID-19 relief funds

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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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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Tracking the not-so-clear trail of $240B in federal COVID-19 spending

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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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...

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Why John Stamos once had the Olsen twins fired Full House

Being cast on Full House at less than a year of age, it’s safe to state Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen was still actresses-in-training...

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Woman who spent years scrubbing explicit video from internet urges tech firms to make it easier to remove

She was only 14 when she was groomed to have virtual sex with an older man she met on social media.  She had...

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A robbery won’t keep this restaurant owner from serving up kindness

When Mithun Mathew opened his SpiceX restaurant in St. John’s, serving delicious Indian food wasn’t the only goal he had in mind. Mathew...

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Unusable masks, catered meals, redone renos: B.C health minister orders review of PHSA spending

British Columbia’s health minister has ordered an immediate review of alleged misspending by the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) during the COVID-19 crisis....

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Families say valued possessions still missing years after bank emptied their safety deposit boxes

If there’s one thing Sheila Levy-Bencheton took for granted, it’s that the safety deposit box her father rented from a big bank was...

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Racist jokes, bullying and exclusion: Oilsands workers describe discrimination on the job

Face Racism will be an ongoing Marketplace series. We are interested in following people searching for justice in their communities, the marketplace and...

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How local, online startups are hoping to snatch Black Friday away from the big boys amid COVID-19

Black Friday sales on now have traditionally been the domain of big, national chains with beefed-up advertising budgets. But this year, there’s a growing...

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RCMP took 19 hours to find parents, daughter killed in Nova Scotia mass shooting in April

Tammy Oliver-McCurdie lost her younger sister, Jolene Oliver, in last April’s mass shooting in Portapique, N.S., and her worst fear remains that the 39-year-old...

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Despite court order, landlords still trying to reclaim luxury homes turned into illegal rooming houses

A few Toronto-area landlords are still trying to reclaim their luxury homes after an Ontario Superior Court judge voided their leases two months...

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Stars who was fired but said they resigned

Stars , It’s tough to think about Julianne Moore desiring for anything in Hollywood. However, when she was discarded from a significant task...