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Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Charting the OT overload driving many nurses from the job
As emergency rooms in some parts of Canada reduce their hours due to staffing shortages, analysts warn the system is buckling. Data from Statistics Canada shows the rise in overtime among nurses pr...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
You tip your hairdresser, but what about your mechanic? Expect to see more 'tip creep'
'Tip creep' is spreading to card payment machines way beyond restaurants, bars and hair salons - prompting questions over those companies' motives and calls for a rethink of Canada's tipping culture. ...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Hockey Canada scandal shows the need to ban non-disclosure agreements, advocates say
There are growing calls to outlaw non-disclosure agreements across the country as Hockey Canada and other sports organizations reel from sexual assault scandals, including some that led to multi-milli...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 17:00:51 EDT
Ontario man pleads guilty to threatening Trudeau at campaign stop last summer
A Kitchener, Ont., man has pleaded guilty to threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a campaign stop in nearby Cambridge last summer, court documents confirm.

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:55:34 EDT
Sask. woman, accused of faking own death, says she had 'no choice' but to flee
The Saskatoon woman accused of staging the disappearance of herself and her son has issued a statement to CBC News from an Oregon jail.

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 21:52:59 EDT
Burned bodies found in Summerland, B.C., linked to fatal Abbotsford police chase: RCMP
Investigators say the discovery of human remains inside a burning vehicle in Summerland on Saturday, and the police chase in Abbotsford on Sunday — where the driver and passenger were killed —...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 18:04:34 EDT
Sask. RCMP say 2 children at centre of Amber Alert believed to be in danger, warrant issued for man
The two children named in an Amber Alert issued by Saskatchewan RCMP Monday are believed to be with their mother and her common-law partner, who has a history of sexual offences, according to RCMP. ...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:31:53 EDT
Top commander defends military's vaccine requirement, says 'tweak' in the works
Canada's top military commander said he will "tweak" the vaccine mandate for the Armed Forces in the next few weeks but defended vaccine requirements as necessary to keep the military ready to respond...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 16:37:19 EDT
Trans star on Twitch fears for her life after someone sent police to her London, Ont., home
An online trans activist based in London, Ont., says she fears for her life and is calling for accountability from police after officers arrested her at gunpoint and took seriously a threat sent by s...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:04:00 EDT
Alberta cabinet minister disavows racist, sexist essay that won prize
Alberta's associate minister in charge of women's issues Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk says that an essay with sexist, racist and white nationalist elements never should have been awarded a prize in a con...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 19:07:54 EDT
Winnipeg mayoral candidate's campaign rolls to a stop after catalytic converters pinched from RV
A Winnipeg mayoral candidate is talking about crime this week — but not as the basis of any new policies or promises. Rana Bokhari filed a police report on Monday after catalytic converters were re...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 08:00:00 EDT
4 in 5 people who died last year while receiving child welfare in Alberta were Indigenous
Advocates and researchers are calling for the Alberta government to decolonize the child welfare system after a record number of children, youth and young adults died last year — about four-in-five ...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:47:39 EDT
Hockey Canada scandal shows the need to ban non-disclosure agreements, advocates say

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Woman says she blacked out from pain during 19-hour wait in Windsor ER before learning she has cancer
Chantel McNeil says she waited eight hours in an emergency room at a Windsor, Ont., hospital before she tried to leave and blacked out. She then waited 11 more hours. Later, the 44-year-old says, a do...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 13:05:37 EDT
Multiple arrests following skirmish with police as tents removed from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
A number of people have been arrested following a skirmish with police in the Downtown Eastside as city staff began the process of removing tents and other structures along a busy street in the nei...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 06:00:00 EDT
After losing their children to rare cancer, Alberta parents advocate for nationwide change
Gabriel Rey passed away after an 11-month battle with a rare childhood cancer. But his parents are still fighting for more research and treatment options in their son's name.

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
A real estate transaction gave me neighbours. A car crash taught me to value them
A car crash outside writer Becky Sarafinchan’s house opened her eyes to the beauty of having neighbours this spring. They’re connected by a random act of real estate and disagree on many issues, b...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 12:51:03 EDT
Would changing how doctors in Canada are licensed help reduce the physician shortage? This MP feels it could
Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Marcus Powlowski was in Atikokan, Fort Frances, Rainy River and Kenora to learn about the challenges doctors are facing. A member of the parliamentary standing committee on ...

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 07:00:00 EDT
Facebook fails to get accused fraudster's $50M lawsuit tossed from B.C. court
Facebook has lost its bid to toss out a $50-million B.C. lawsuit from an alleged scam artist over an “imposter page” that used his name and likeness.

Tue, 9 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Lawsuit alleges sexual abuse of former students and coverup at private Sask. Christian school
Sexual abuse was perpetrated — and covered up — by multiple officials at a private Saskatoon Christian school and adjacent church, say former students.



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