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Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Canadian banks, insurance firms owe $1.2B in employee vacation pay, class actions allege
Five proposed class-action lawsuits have been launched against banks and insurance companies since early 2019 seeking a total of $1.2 billion for vacation pay that's allegedly owed current and former ...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Women in Canada turn to courts in fight for compensation over birth control implant complications
The permanent birth control device Essure has been off the Canadian market for four years — but pain and serious complications linger among some women who are seeking compensation from a manufacture...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Asking 'Where do you think you got COVID?' helps contact tracers zero in on superspreader events
The painstaking detective work of contact tracing usually starts with an infected person and works forward, asking who has that person seen since they became contagious. But to spot COVID-19 superspre...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Too much, too soon? The politics of pandemic spending
Chrystia Freeland seemed only too happy on Wednesday to mention some recent grumbling about the Liberal government's pandemic spending over last year.

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 00:07:44 EST
New York Times' Nanaimo bar flubs golden ratio, say experts (ahem, us)
Not since the great Canada Post stamp debate of 2019 have fans of the sweet treat been in such an uproar about the ratio of the layers.

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Failed defence in Toronto's van attack trial damaged the autism community, activists say
Despite an judge finding the driver in Toronto's deadly van attack guilty on all 10 counts of first-degree murder, there is concern among the autism community that the trial itself, which saw autism ...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
These friends wrote letters for 70 years. With one pen pal gone, the other encourages connection
Victoria Ryczak and Kathleen Wallace first started writing letters in 1950 when they were 12 years old. Wallace died on Feb. 22, 2021, after 70 years of a friendship spent two provinces away. ...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Government staffers fretted about the 'optics' of N95 mask donation for Korean War veterans: documents
Federal Liberal government staffers were worried that a donation of medical-grade masks for Korean War veterans in Canada would send the wrong message as the country grappled with shortages of person...

Thu, 4 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Lack of evidence-based medicine in debate around new MAID law should concern Canadians
Medical history has shown that when well-meaning people bypass careful science to rush a treatment out before harms are properly understood, it can have disastrous consequences, writes Dr. Mark Sinyor...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:30:00 EST
Alberta confirms first long-term care outbreak linked to coronavirus variant
For the first time, an outbreak of COVID-19 in an Alberta long-term care facility as been linked to a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus.

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 07:37:08 EST
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on March 3
Quebec is loosening restrictions around restaurants, gyms and places of worship, as well as shortening the province's curfew, in regions outside of greater Montreal starting next week. ...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:42:59 EST
Air Canada to offer refunds to passengers as part of potential bailout package: Source
Air Canada has agreed to offer refunds to passengers who had their travel plans cancelled because of the pandemic as part of a potential bailout package from the federal government, says a source with...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:25:29 EST
Extortionist demanding $1M murdered unconnected Alberta man to prove he meant business, Crown suggests
One day after a Medicine Hat, Alta., man received a letter that demanded $1 million and included a vow that somebody would be murdered to prove the seriousness of the threat, a random victim was f...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:57:25 EST
New changes to Divorce Act 'a huge relief' for B.C. mother of girls murdered by father
New changes to Canada's Divorce Act that came into effect Monday more fully recognize the impact of family violence in separation disputes.

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:12:38 EST
Meng Wanzhou's lawyer claims Trump reduced Huawei exec from human being to 'chattel'
A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou accused former U.S. president Donald Trump Wednesday of leaving a "stain" on the Canadian justice system by threatening to intervene in extradition proceedings against the Hu...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:51:42 EST
Federal wage and rent subsidies extended until June
The federal government will extend into June two pandemic support programs that subsidize wages and rent for businesses as the country continues to struggle with the economic effects of the COVID-19 ...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EST
Judge finds Toronto van attack killer guilty of murder
A judge has declared that the man responsible for Toronto's deadly van attack in 2018 is guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:27:50 EST
An earlier end date for vaccination campaign is 'possible', Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that Canada's vaccination campaign could wrap up before September if the country secures the necessary shots and if there's a change in dosing timelines. ...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:39:08 EST
Rescuers save all 31 crew members hours before ship sinks off Nova Scotia coast
Rescuers saved all crew members from the fishing vessel Atlantic Destiny — hours before the vessel sank Wednesday afternoon. The ship was in distress and taking on water after a fire off the southw...

Wed, 3 Mar 2021 12:24:28 EST
Research institutions to get funding boost from federal government
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced more than $518 million in funding for research projects at colleges, universities and hospitals across the country.



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