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Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Why your options may be limited if your employer wants you back in the workplace
As pandemic restrictions end, there's also a focus on rejigging alternative work plans to get people back to in-person work. While employers can in most cases wind down temporary measures, they should...

Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Are doctors still prescribing too many opioids?
A study led by a McGill University scientist suggests opioid painkillers are not always beneficial — and sometimes harmful — as patients recover from a minor surgery.

Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Why these survivors and advocates want more than an apology from the Pope
Many feel reconciliation actions by the Catholic Church need to go beyond an apology for residential schools.

Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
N.S. victim of child sex abuse hopes to help other survivors
For years it was a secret the man suppressed — but now he's reclaiming the voice he was once forbidden to use. He's giving survivors a chance to share their stories through a university research pro...

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
The power of love: Why a 96-year-old man sold his Ontario house and moved to rural Newfoundland
Welcome to Plate Cove West, a small Newfoundland town where Charlie Comrie, a veteran of the Second World War, has made his home. Why? As Melissa Tobin writes, it's a love story for the ages. ...

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 20:57:27 EDT
Winnipeg attack victims were Ukrainian refugees, says woman who stopped to help
Two young men who recently fled the war in Ukraine to find a better life in Winnipeg were victims of a violent attack at The Forks district on Canada Day, according to a couple who came to their aid. ...

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:46:27 EDT
'Shock, confusion' as 2 wounded and 1 arrested in shooting at Williams Lake, B.C. stampede
RCMP say one person is in custody after a gun was fired at the Williams Lake stampede grounds Sunday afternoon.

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 07:00:00 EDT
B.C. women get an up-close encounter with humpback whale off coast of Vancouver Island
Two B.C. women had a close encounter with a humpback whale in Georgia Strait, in what a marine biologist hopes is a sign of good things for the mammal’s population in B.C.

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Doctors urge Ontario to open 4th doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all adults
Some doctors are calling on Ontario to allow all adults to get a second booster of a COVID-19 vaccine this summer, something that the province is currently limiting to only a portion of the population...

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 12:21:00 EDT
Air travellers face cancellations, delays throughout long weekend
Many passengers are facing delays, lost baggage and missed connections through the Canada Day long weekend. Staff shortages, in the air and on the ground, have been blamed for the chaos. ...

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 15:17:03 EDT
David Blackwood, iconic Newfoundland artist, dies at 80
'David Blackwood created a mythology for Newfoundland,' says gallery owner and Blackwood's friend Emma Butler.

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Saanich, B.C., shootout witnesses recount lasting 'terrifying trauma' of bank robbery
Police in Saanich, B.C., announced Saturday that they're letting locals back into what was for days a crime scene, nearly a week after a shootout left six officers wounded and two bank robbers dead. B...

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 08:00:00 EDT
Family fears for their lives as deportation from Canada imminent
Luis Ubando Nolasco and his family fled to Canada after his brother was shot and killed in 2018. Now, despite attempts to secure refugee status, they are awaiting deportation back to Mexico. ...

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 15:16:44 EDT
Twin brothers identified as armed bank robbers killed by police in Saanich, B.C.
RCMP officers in Saanich, B.C., have identified 22-year-old twin brothers Matthew and Isaac Auchterlonie as the two armed bank robbers who were killed by police in a shootout on Tuesday. ...

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Fish still missing, traditions extinct 30 years after N.L. cod moratorium
Looking back at tumultuous period in Newfoundland and Labrador's recent history, the wins are few and the losses are many.

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 19:24:24 EDT
RCMP shoot, injure 22-year-old man on Shamattawa First Nation
A Shamattawa First Nation man was shot and seriously injured by RCMP in the northern Manitoba community, the federal police service and community’s chief said on Saturday. 

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 18:23:29 EDT
RCMP spied on activists in early days of universal medicare planning in Sask., documents show
An access to information request has turned up documents that show that in the 1960s, the RCMP surveilled doctors in Saskatchewan who supported what is now universal medicare, fearing they may be comm...

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 05:00:00 EDT
How Canada's toughest triathlon is helping Lac-Mégantic, Que., redefine itself as train tragedy lingers
When the organizers of CanadaMan/Woman, now in its fifth year, pitched the idea in 2015, Lac-Mégantic was still reeling from the 2013 rail disaster that killed 47 people. The race has helped to trans...

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
This Alaskan parka is windproof, waterproof — and made from bear intestines
It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sewn together by a group of women in Alaska.

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 14:31:24 EDT
13-year-old Edmonton girl, who went missing June 24, found safe in Oregon
A teenage girl from Edmonton, who was first reported missing over a week ago, was found safe in the state of Oregon Saturday, police say.



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