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

The latest: COVID-19 case numbers are continuing their slow but steady rise across most of Atlantic Canada. Health officials in New Brunswick reported 14...

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Colleagues, friends reflect on fallen Manitoulin Island OPP officer

A retired OPP officer and former colleague of Constable Marc Hovingh says all of Ontario’s Manitoulin Island is in a state of shock...

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Pandemic is making life even more perilous for the 420 million children in conflict zones

This column is an opinion by Bill Chambers, the president and CEO of Save the Children in Canada. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please...

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Oil and gas know-how looks to alternatives in a business-led push to address climate change

The federal government’s climate plan, announced Thursday, is facing criticism for not moving fast enough. Meanwhile, the political rhetoric from parts of Canada’s oil-and-gas-producing...

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7 residents dead at Scarborough long-term care home battling COVID-19 outbreak

Seven residents have died at a Scarborough, Ont., long-term care home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak, while 136 other residents and 66...

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Indie booksellers thriving during pandemic thanks to new ways of connecting with customers

Ask Mosaic Books owner Michael Neill about business during the pandemic, and he gets a little embarrassed.  “Overall, it’s amazing,” he said.  “The past...

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How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day

On a grey, windswept spring day three years ago, Ryan Mullens sat next to the grave of a long-dead soldier in the green...

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2,000 people march through Aylmer, Ont., to protest COVID-19 health measures

Chanting “Rise up!” and “Freedom is essential,” at one point up to 2,000 people marched through the streets of Aylmer, Ont., calling for...

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Will COVID-19 kill Christmas?

Roger Wiebe of Edmonton and his wife are cancelling Christmas this year because they can’t afford it.  Weibe said he lost his job at...

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For Canada’s energy sector, a Joe Biden win would be just 1 more item on a long list of uncertainties

This week was the first time Tom Simons had travelled to the U.S. in eight months because of the pandemic, and he just happened...

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Secrecy, conflicts in Collingwood deals point to holes in Ontario’s integrity rules, judge finds

A tangle of insider relationships among officials and family in the resort town of Collingwood, Ont., led to serious problems in two multimillion-dollar public...

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Police issued 77 fines, charged 7 people for breaking Canada’s COVID-19 quarantine rules

Over the past seven months, police have issued 77 fines and charged seven people for violating Canada’s Quarantine Act, according to the Public Health Agency of...

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Justin Trudeau asked to help with Jordan Naterer search during Memorial University town hall

Fresh off surviving a confidence vote on a Conservative motion to look into the government’s ethics and pandemic spending, a relaxed-looking Justin Trudeau held...

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Donald Trump’s town hall sparked a battle within NBC

Donald Trump. According to Variety, MSNBC star Rachel Maddow criticized her parent network for airing the president’s event simultaneously with Joe Biden’s town...

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After 37 years, convicted B.C. child killer to argue wrongful conviction

On an October day in 1983 in the coastal B.C. town of Prince Rupert, a first-degree murder trial began for a 17-year-old named...

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Sons of woman killed in 1997 collision with Scott Moe want personal apology

The sons of a woman killed in a 1997 highway collision with Scott Moe say they’re hurt and angry the leader of the...