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People waste way more food than thought, UN finds. Here’s how Canada compares
Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of...
Pandemic job losses threaten to leave women behind permanently, RBC warns
Jerty Gaa is one of the nearly 500,000 women in Canada who remain unemployed amid the pandemic. She found herself on hiatus from her...
Estate of slain Hells Angels prospect who led double life split between spouses in court battle
Michael Widner’s death in March 2017 left a lot of questions unanswered — and not just for the investigators tasked with solving the targeted...
In face of deadly pandemic, Ontario long-term care homes continue breaking COVID-19 safety rules
Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, inspectors were still catching Ontario long-term care homes violating crucial infection prevention and control measures. A CBC...
2020 was the worst year on record for Canada’s economy. It shrank by 5.4%
Canada’s economy shrank by 5.4 per cent last year, official data from Statistics Canada showed Monday, making 2020 the worst year for the...
Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in...
There’s good economic news on the horizon, and that’s rattling markets. Wait, what?
The first signs that the world is winning the battle with COVID-19 has sparked great news for the global economy as the number...
Ontario man battles Bell and contractor after worker uses power tool to clean his car
David Rooney couldn’t believe what he was seeing when he looked out his front window in June and saw a Bell Canada contract...
Humboldt Broncos crash survivor Kaleb Dahlgren’s memoir tells the story of a hockey life interrupted
Kaleb Dahlgren says he still has no memory of the crash that changed his life. Dahlgren played right wing for the Humboldt Broncos...
Trudeau says Canada-U.S. relations need to rebuild. Just how bad did it get with Trump?
When Justin Trudeau met virtually with U.S. President Joe Biden this week, the prime minister suggested that relations between the two countries had taken a significant hit...
Canada’s pipeline regulator says it’s taking a stand against systemic racism
Rueben George says he’s not at all surprised that, in an era of racial reckoning, Canada’s top pipeline regulator is signalling it wants to...
Health Canada approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine
After a months-long review, Health Canada regulators today approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University-AstraZeneca for use in Canada — clearing the way...
‘It’s not their fault’: Nunavut students who act violently let down by lack of counselling, educators say
This is Part 2 of a three-part series on violence in Nunavut’s schools. Teachers getting books thrown at their heads, punched in the...
Do we know how effective vaccines are against the variants? Your COVID-19 questions answered
We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...
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...
Woman loses $340K in wire transfer scam — alleges 4 banks did little to stop it
Vivien Zheng says she will never forget the phone call that led to losing her family’s entire life savings — $340,000. The 43-year-old...
