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Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Electric-blue, shimmering clouds begin their annual appearance across Canada
Amazing. Beautiful. Superb. These are words many people use to describe one of the sky’s most beautiful displays: noctilucent clouds. And the time is right for Canadians to try to see them for them...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
These students say virtual learning makes the transition to high school, university much harder
From disrupted exams to learning new studying habits, many students say they have lacked consistency with school since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  For some, the transitional years — moving...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Do more to counter violent extremism in Canada, MPs recommend
The federal government has to do more to counter the threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism in Canada, including strengthening terrorist financing laws to counter it, says the House of Co...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Pride event in Hamilton to be indoors with police presence, 3 years after violence in Gage Park
As Pride Hamilton gets ready for its first in-person celebration since 2019, some community members say the Hamilton Police Service should be doing more to build back the fractured relationship. ...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Do unions at Starbucks mean the labour movement is picking up steam?
A growing effort to unionize Starbucks cafes in the U.S. and Canada as well as Amazon warehouses, Apple stores, and Indigo book shops has union leaders and experts wondering if this the start of a shi...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:30:00 EDT
Gaping potholes, crumbling rural roads threaten N.L.'s plan to revive tourism industry
Scratch and patch season, also known as summer, often doesn't come at all in the province's remotest corners. This year, despite a pedal-to-the-metal Come Home Year marketing campaign, not much has c...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Sask. family says man stabbed through skull with screwdriver, police say likely 'mistaken identity'
A Saskatoon man is in critical condition after a horrific stabbing inside a hospital earlier this month.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:26:18 EDT
Canada's government should offer real help to U.S. women seeking abortions, Michigan advocacy group says
A policy group in Detroit is asking Canadian politicians to back up words with actions when it comes to abortion access for U.S. citizens in this country. 

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:00:00 EDT
Risk of recession high but Alberta could avoid worst impacts, says Mark Carney
The United States is facing an "uncomfortably high" risk of falling into a recession, says Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, but Alberta could be insulated from the worst impacts if...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:04:24 EDT
Regis Korchinski-Paquet's family files $10M civil lawsuit in connection with her death
The statement of claim, filed on June 27, names the City of Toronto, five Toronto police officers who were at the scene that night, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Ontario's attorney genera...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:43:55 EDT
Grand Falls-Windsor Pride says it was not welcome at event held on church property
An LGBTQ Pride organization in central Newfoundland says an event was cancelled after a church refused to allow the group on its property.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:30:00 EDT
St. John's woman loses home after Phoenix pay fiasco
A St. John's woman says the federal government has ruined her life and that she lost her family home due to long-standing issues with the notorious Phoenix pay system.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
'About 4 cops with their guns drawn': Neighbour saw police kill man who stabbed women, teen girl
Late Monday night on Anoka Street in south Ottawa, Scott Babbitt was inside his home with a nearby window open when he heard screams coming from outside.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:17:37 EDT
Canadian diver Mia Vallée bursts to bronze at world championships
It took a winding route for Canada's Mia Vallée to land on the podium. The Beaconsfield, Que., diver earned bronze in the women's one-metre springboard final at the world aquatics championships on We...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:00:00 EDT
Const. Heidi Stevenson, killed during N.S. mass shooting, honoured at RCMP memorial
Hundreds of law enforcement officers and first responders from across Canada gathered in Cole Harbour, N.S., to pay tribute to the RCMP officer who died in the line of duty.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:00:00 EDT
B.C. crash victim reunited with the 'guardian angel' who saved her life
Katie Potts broke her back, lost her leg and part of her hand in a car accident last summer and says she wouldn't have seen her next birthday if it weren't for the Good Samaritans who pulled over to h...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
'It's intimidation': Judge faces threats after Freedom Convoy hearings
One of the judges who presided over court hearings of Freedom Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered serious enough to require police intervention, according to informat...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:04:37 EDT
Olympic soccer hero Julia Grosso a rising star after whirlwind 12 months
Canadian women's team midfielder Julia Grosso has been on the rise ever since she made her national team debut in 2017. Now, the 21-year-old is poised to play a key role in the upcoming CONCACAF women...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:10:00 EDT
Sports leaders top list of new Order of Canada appointees
Canadian sports icons including Stacey Allaster, Donovan Bailey and Angela James are among the 85 new appointees to the Order of Canada this year.

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Sudbury police 'unlawfully' detained Indigenous academic after she faced hospital racism, lawsuit alleges 
An Indigenous academic says she was unlawfully detained by police after she faced racial discrimination from medical staff at a hospital in Sudbury, Ont., according to a recently filed $300,000 lawsui...



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