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Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Inside a COVID-19 conspiracy boot camp
A Marketplace investigation into an online boot camp organized by an American anti-vaccination activist has uncovered some of the tactics COVID-19 conspiracists are using to influence those skeptical ...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Yet-to-be-released analysis suggests 60% higher risk of death from COVID-19 variants: Sources
Variants of the virus behind COVID-19 double the risk of someone being admitted to intensive care — and increase the risk of death by roughly 60 per cent — according to a new analysis of recent On...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Is it OK to mix and match different vaccines? Your COVID-19 questions answered
Health officials don't recommend having different types of COVID-19 vaccines for your two shots, but doctors say a unique clinical trial in the United Kingdom could inform a more flexible rollout in...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
In trying to contain COVID-19, we could be missing spread of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis, experts warn
Public health experts say the COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed other epidemics that need attention. Testing for HIV and hepatitis C has plummeted in Saskatchewan, where blood-borne and sexually tran...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:33:35 EDT
Woman pulled over by police impersonator on dark B.C. highway rattled by encounter
Kristin McBride was driving along Highway 6 between Lumby and Vernon on the night of March 13 when a man in a white truck or SUV pulled up behind her and turned on a set of flashing red and blue light...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Frozen pizza sales are red hot, with increased sales expected to outlast the pandemic
Pizza consumption has surged during the pandemic and many Canadians are making the frozen variety their pie of choice.

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Sisters of Sask. woman who mysteriously disappeared anxious for answers as murder trial nears
It’s been more than five years since Sheree Fertuck disappeared from a rural gravel pit — her workplace — in Saskatchewan. Police believe she was murdered by her estranged husband, though her bo...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
It's 'absolutely essential' Canada repatriate citizens in Syrian camps: Antonio Guterres
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it is “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in Syrian prison camps.

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Government officials question ex-ambassador to Israel's office space, private meetings
New reports are emerging about the former Canadian ambassador to Israel's tenure, months after Radio-Canada/CBC revealed that a lawsuit launched by ex-ambassador Vivian Bercovici against the federa...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Inside a COVID-19 conspiracy boot camp
A Marketplace investigation into an online boot camp organized by an American anti-vaccination activist has uncovered some of the tactics COVID-19 conspiracists are using to influence those skeptical ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:02:52 EDT
Judge questions refusal by key RCMP witness to testify at Meng Wanzhou extradition case
The B.C. Supreme Court judge overseeing Meng Wanzhou’s extradition proceedings says it’s tough to know what to make of the refusal of a key RCMP witness to testify in the high-profile case. ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:50:29 EDT
First COVID-19 variants identified in Yukon
Yukon health officials say two cases COVID-19 that are variants of concern have arrived in the territory. An exposure notice was issued for an Air North flight that left Vancouver on Sunday. ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:15:10 EDT
Politicians across Canada react to Supreme Court's carbon tax ruling
In a 6-3 decision, Canada's Supreme Court ruled the federal government's carbon pricing system is constitutional, in a blow to some provincial governments that had argued efforts to mitigate pollution...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:23:35 EDT
Medicine Hat murderer who extorted businessman for $1M faints as he's handed life sentence
Just as the judge told Robert Hoefman he'd be serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years, the murderer swayed and then toppled out of the prisoner's box, onto the floor of a Medici...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:07:26 EDT
Indigenous man says he can sell cannabis without B.C. licence because of UN declaration
Okanagan Indian Band member Cory Brewer says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by B.C. in 2019, gives him the right to sell cannabis outside of the band's res...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Supreme Court rules Ottawa's carbon tax is constitutional
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government's carbon pricing regime is constitutional.

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:03:48 EDT
Public Health Agency was unprepared for the pandemic and 'underestimated' the danger, auditor general says
Despite nearly two decades of warnings, planning and government spending, the Public Health Agency of Canada was not ready for the global pandemic and did not appreciate the threat it posed in its ea...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:15:36 EDT
Ottawa proposes $7B top-up to transfers for health care, infrastructure
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said today the federal government plans to provide a one-time payment of $7 billion to provinces, territories, cities and First Nations communities to help th...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:35:18 EDT
Tax agency lacked tools to keep wage subsidy away from ineligible employers: AG
Canada's auditor general says the Canada Revenue Agency lacked controls and the up-to-date information it needed to properly assess applicants when the federal government launched its wage subsidy ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:35:46 EDT
CFIA targets puppy importers in at least 6 raids in Ontario
At least six puppy importers who are bringing dogs into Canada from Eastern Europe have been targeted in raids by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency this month, focusing attention on an opaque multi-...



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