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After evacuating twice over tainted water, Neskantaga residents plan their return home
Members of a First Nation that has been under a boil-water advisory for longer than any other in Canada are hoping to return home...
B.C. ski resort fires employees after dozens of COVID-19 cases linked to parties, shared housing
Big White Ski Resort near Kelowna, B.C., has fired some of its employees for breaking a social responsibility contract, after health officials announced that...
Tom Cruise’s latest meltdown explained
According to The Sun, the Hollywood superstar was upset because he spotted a pair of people who broke social distancing rules on the...
Hospital visitation policies should reflect what loved-ones contribute to a patient’s recovery
This column is an opinion by Courtney Sas and Dr. Alexandra Rendely. Sas, a clinical social worker at a University of Toronto affiliated hospital, has a master’s...
2 dead in construction mishap in London, Ont., recovery effort underway for one body
Heavy equipment was brought in Saturday in an effort to recover the body of a worker trapped in the rubble of a partial...
Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba receives more military support for COVID-19 battle
More help from the Canadian Armed Forces has arrived in Shamattawa following a desperate plea from the First Nation’s chief. The northern Manitoba fly-in...
2 dead, 4 in hospital after partial building collapse at London, Ont., construction site
Two people have died and four others remain in hospital after a building partially collapsed Friday in London, Ont. Doctors at the London Health...
Fear, frustration, compassion and shame: What nurses are dealing with during the pandemic
(WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions that may disturb or offend some readers.) There are close to 450,000 nurses in Canada. Some work...
2 Ontario LTC operators got $157M in COVID-19 aid. They also paid $74M to shareholders
This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during the first...
700 families waiting for children’s health services at Toronto hospital as pandemic backlog grows
Just six months after he was born, Ivona Nowak’s son Noah was diagnosed with cancer in his spinal cord. The tumour, though treatable, left the...
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...
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...
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...
Federal COVID Alert app wasn’t working for some users for much of November
The developers of Canada’s COVID Alert app fixed a glitch last week that left some users without exposure notifications for much of November. An update to...
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...
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...
