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Sun, 5 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Why RCMP managers defend using Twitter — and not an alert — during the N.S. mass shooting
Nova Scotia RCMP stands by its decision to use Twitter to communicate with the public during the mass shooting in April 2020, in spite of widespread criticism for not issuing an emergency alert. ...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
How a century-old Canadian connection is bringing help, comfort to struggling Ukrainians
For more than a century, Mennonites in Canada have been providing aid and other help to Ukrainians, because of the close ties they have with the region. That work continues even now, during Russia's w...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 16:08:55 EDT
Dairy farmers seek 2nd milk price hike this year, citing inflation
Milk prices in Canada could be going up for the second time in a year following a rare request by Dairy Farmers of Canada for a mid-year price hike due to inflation. Industry observers say consumers c...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 11:00:00 EDT
Vancouver mother and daughter release new children's book highlighting positive uses of social media
The Vancouver-based pair say they wrote Better Connected to show the positive aspects of girls' online experiences and how social media can be used to bring attention to social justice issues. ...

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:28:39 EDT
'The truth is coming out,' Samwel Uko's uncle says after inquest delivers 20 recommendations for SHA
After hearing from two dozen witnesses, a jury in Regina has returned on the fifth day of the inquest into the death of Samwel Uko, who drowned in Wascana Lake in 2020, to deliver 20 recommendations t...

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 17:30:21 EDT
77-year-old UBC student thanks classmates who saved his life with CPR after heart attack
A senior University of British Columbia student is thanking several classmates for saving his life, four months after students at the school's Kelowna campus gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation (C...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 19:24:09 EDT
Manitoba teen starts province's first all-female cricket team
What started as one high school girl’s dream has resulted in a group of eleven teenage girls from Brandon forming the first all-female cricket team in Manitoba. 

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 07:00:00 EDT
Jason Kenney didn't know when to stop talking. Doug Ford did
History will record that Ford grew his majority by staying away from microphones, while Kenney perhaps talked his way out of a job.

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
How a northwestern Ontario pilot helped bring Queen Elizabeth's 1953 coronation to Canadians
George Nickerson, a wing commander from Kenora, Ont., was ordered by the Royal Canadian Air Force to carry out a peculiar mission that would change what the world thought was possible, both in and on ...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 17:47:44 EDT
Canada men's soccer training sessions scrapped amid compensation talks
A planned training session for Canada's men's soccer team was scrapped Friday amid ongoing discussions about player compensation. And a session scheduled for Saturday did not take place before 7:30 p....

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 19:19:35 EDT
A store manager and owner got into a fight over a sign. Now, a tribunal says the owner must pay $70K
A heated argument over a store sign snowballed into a workplace dispute involving multiple regulators, and now a tribunal has ruled an optical store owner in Oliver, B.C., must pay his former manager ...

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 20:11:43 EDT
Alberta government memos on school masking 'damning,' union leader says
Internal documents, ordered released through the courts, are raising new questions about the Kenney government's February decision to lift the mask mandate in schools and block school boards from brin...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Participants hold out hope inquest into triple femicide in eastern Ontario can bring change
After decades of study on domestic homicides in Ontario, and after hundreds of recommendations to stop them, the people taking part in next week's inquest into the murders of three women around Renfre...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 05:00:00 EDT
Inside a Halifax university's battle to save face after spending nearly $500K on a football game
Documents obtained by CBC News in an access-to-information request reveal the frustration of university officials embroiled in a football dispute and how a high-profile public relations company advi...

Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:57:42 EDT
Evacuation alerts issued for parts of B.C. with flood and thunderstorm watches in effect
The River Forecast Centre has issued high streamflow advisories covering parts of the province's Interior while similar advisories remain in place across much of northern B.C., prompting evacuation ...

Sat, 4 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Why decriminalizing drug possession won't fix Canada's toxic supply
Canada's toxic drug supply problem can’t be fixed by decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of drugs alone — a move that advocates say is a step in the right direction but a far cry fr...

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 13:48:43 EDT
'A national shame,' say advocates about lack of progress on MMIWG action plan
A year into a national action plan to end violence against Indigenous women, advocates say little has been done and more accountability is needed from the federal government.

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 21:24:34 EDT
B.C. will decriminalize up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs. Drug users say that threshold won't decriminalize them
As B.C. is set to become the first province to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, drug users and advocates warn the the threshold of 2.5 grams will leave most entrenched drug ...

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 17:52:07 EDT
Growing season off to a rocky start as Prairie farmers contend with rain, snow, flooding
Seeding delays across much of the Prairies are raising concerns about potentially lower crop yields in a year when Canadian farmers are under pressure to deliver a strong harvest.

Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:11:00 EDT
Wet weather means slow start to B.C. wildfire season, but forecast suggests shift in July
Cold and wet weather has meant a very slow start to B.C.’s wildfire season, and while that’s expected to continue throughout June, late summer could bring more dangerous conditions, according to t...



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