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

what transporting ice cream across canada tells us about vaccine logistics
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What transporting ice cream across Canada tells us about vaccine logistics

The multiple announcements of potential vaccine candidates in the fight against COVID-19 has been greeted positively around the world, but rolling out immunization...

trudeau turns to the military to help with covid 19 vaccine distribution
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Trudeau turns to the military to help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that the federal government has chosen a senior military commander to lead its COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort as the...

rcmp took 19 hours to find parents daughter killed in nova scotia mass shooting in april
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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...

small retailers push back against lockdown policy that favours big box stores
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Small retailers push back against lockdown policy that favours big-box stores

Small businesses in Toronto and Peel Region say it’s not fair that they should be closed for in-person shopping while big-box stores can sell all...

doug fung was released from hospital 9 days later he died from covid 19 complications
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Doug Fung was released from hospital. 9 days later, he died from COVID-19 complications

When Doug Fung was released from North Vancouver’s Lion’s Gate Hospital, where he was being treated for cancer, his wife Bronwyn James knew something was...

40 covid 19 test positivity rate for steinbach man region raises concerns
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40% COVID-19 test positivity rate for Steinbach, Man., region raises concerns

As COVID-19 case numbers grow across Manitoba, there’s a spike occurring south of Winnipeg in Steinbach that has health-care workers and residents deeply concerned....

family of jailed saudi activist implores canada to call out kingdoms human rights record at g20
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Family of jailed Saudi activist implores Canada to call out kingdom’s human rights record at G20

The family of a women’s rights activist who has been jailed in Saudi Arabia for over two years is calling on the federal...

indigenous services minister overrules senior bureaucrat on neskantaga water probe
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Indigenous services minister overrules senior bureaucrat on Neskantaga water probe

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has overruled a senior departmental official over the framing of an investigation into Neskantaga First Nation’s 25-year-long water crisis, CBC...

saskatchewan staved off bankruptcy in the 90s is there hope for n l too
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Saskatchewan staved off bankruptcy in the ’90s. Is there hope for N.L., too?

Roy Romanow says he still loses sleep over decisions he made 27 years ago. The former NDP premier of Saskatchewan came to power amid...

vast majority of travellers entering canada allowed to skip 14 day quarantine
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Vast majority of travellers entering Canada allowed to skip 14-day quarantine

More than five million arrivals into Canada have been allowed to skip the 14-day quarantine requirement put in place when the country closed its borders to non-essential...

the environmental policy the oilpatch wants from ottawa asap
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The environmental policy the oilpatch wants from Ottawa ASAP

Shell Canada will plant more than 800,000 trees in the interior of British Columbia next year, a project that the company hopes will create valuable carbon...

why melissa fumero isnt a fan of canadas brooklyn nine nine remake
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Why Melissa Fumero isn’t a fan of Canada’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine remake

Melissa Fumero blasted Escalade 99‘s absence of Hispanic representation, likewise keeping in mind that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine remake cast a non-Latina starlet to...

the least democratic aspects of canadas constitution may provide the best defence of our election process
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The least democratic aspects of Canada’s Constitution may provide the best defence of our election process

This column is an opinion by Eric M. Adams, vice dean and professor of law at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law, where...

his father was to be checked hourly at his long term care home instead he died and wasnt found for 6 hours
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His father was to be checked hourly at his long-term care home. Instead, he died and wasn’t found for 6 hours

Joshua Matchett said he felt something wasn’t right when he couldn’t reach his father on April 11. He had called half a dozen...

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