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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:19:30 EDT
'No relief in sight' for wildfire forecast in southern B.C. as thousands remain under evacuation order

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Meet the lovers behind the locks on Ottawa's Corktown Footbridge
It's a time-honoured symbol of everlasting love, even if the symbol itself doesn't always last forever: padlocks attached to a bridge railing, often painted with the initials of the starry-eyed sweeth...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Permanent residents in limbo waiting to immigrate to Canada
A backlog of some 23,000 aspiring immigrants with expired or soon-to-be expired documents are waiting to enter Canada. The government says it's working to get caught up, but some of them have gone mon...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:47:35 EDT
Fauci says prospect of open border for fully vaccinated Canadians part of active U.S. talks
U.S. President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser says he's looking forward to the resumption of land border travel between Canada and the U.S.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:00:00 EDT
Salmon are getting cooked by climate change. Here's how they could be saved
A heat wave is expected to kill all juvenile chinook salmon in California's Sacramento River, wildlife officials say. Meanwhile, climate change and extreme heat waves are hitting Canada’s salmon, to...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:27:16 EDT
Yukon becomes 3rd Canadian jurisdiction to reach deal on child-care funding
The deal is worth nearly $41.6 million over five years to build on Yukon's own effort to make $10 a day childcare available for children under age 6. It's also set to boost the minimum wage to $30 an ...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:16:16 EDT
Alex Trebek honoured with Geographical Society grant program for emerging explorers
The late Alex Trebek, who began his career at the CBC and hosted the iconic game show Jeopardy for 37 years, is being honoured with a grant program that aims to award $400,000 annually to emerging Can...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:00:00 EDT
Village of Tatamagouche, N.S., rallies around homeless family to build them a house
Residents of a village in Colchester County, N.S., have rallied around a family who became homeless earlier this year — with the goal of building them a house in a matter of weeks.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:59:11 EDT
Man missing in B.C. backcountry for 2 weeks found by wildfire crew
A wildfire attack crew looking for a newly started forest fire instead found a man who had been missing in the rugged backcountry of Garibaldi Provincial Park, north of Vancouver.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:55:16 EDT
Governor general-designate Mary Simon speaks with the Queen
Governor general-designate Mary Simon spoke with the Queen for the first time Thursday.

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:55:06 EDT
Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc leaders say some companies taking advantage of those searching for missing loved ones
Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc leaders say Indigenous people across Canada have been inundated with ground penetrating radar specialist requests to survey former residential schools grounds and worry tha...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Heat waves are increasing across Canada — and hotter nights are also dangerous
As Earth warms, Canada is facing not only more frequent heat waves, but higher nighttime temperatures. That combination is potentially deadly.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:58:51 EDT
Yogi Muise, cornerstone member of Cape Breton's Men of the Deeps, has died
Yogi Muise performed with the choir of former Cape Breton coal miners for over 50 years.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:00:00 EDT
Some Manitoba wildfire evacuees struggling to adjust to life in city, worry about homes they left behind
With hundreds of wildfire evacuees now living in hotels in Winnipeg and Brandon, some say they’re struggling to settle into their home away from home. 

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:31 EDT
A teenager threw a message in a bottle into the Pacific Ocean. 9 years later, a B.C. cleanup crew found it
Brittney Amundsen wrote the message in 2012, when she was 17. Layers of luck and coincidence are wrapped up in the find.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:37:49 EDT
Government interfering with 'exclusive jurisdiction' of House, Speaker tells court
A federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says. ...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Students stressed and anxious as universities deny residence spots due to COVID-19
Some Canadian universities are turning down residence applications by the hundreds this year, and the rejected students — who were hoping for an on-campus experience after the COVID-19 pandemic ate ...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:00:00 EDT
Edmonton teen puts training to the test after neighbourhood lesson on naloxone
Edmonton’s Alberta Avenue neighbourhood is fighting a recent increase in opioid overdoses by training residents to administer life-saving naloxone. One teenager has already put his training to use t...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:00:00 EDT
Member of The Dead South accused of sexual misconduct returns to group
Regina band The Dead South is reuniting with its cello player, who last year faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Victims of communism memorial received donations honouring fascists, Nazi collaborators, according to website
A controversial monument being built in Ottawa to honour victims of communist regimes has received donations in honour of known fascists and Nazi collaborators, according to a list posted online by t...



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