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Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
Why small businesses say they need Ottawa's help to get some relief on credit card fees
Canadian small business owners say they are paying higher fees to process credit card transactions online. They say the federal government needs to step in and take urgent action to help them make it ...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:58:57 EST
B.C. woman dies in extreme cold trying to get home from next-door neighbour's
RCMP say the woman left her neighbour's house in Dawson, B.C., where she had been drinking alcohol at around 1 a.m. PT Sunday.

Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
For homeless people trying to stay safe in pandemic, federal housing program is a lifeline, say advocates
Reduced access to homeless shelters during the pandemic has made an already vulnerable population more so, but advocates say a federal housing program that finds homes and support for people living on...

Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
If we're serious about building a healthy post-pandemic society, we can't do it without addressing poverty
If there was ever any doubt, the pandemic makes it clear that no one in society is truly protected until everyone is protected, writes Food Banks Canada director of research Richard Matern. ...

Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
Vaccine wars: Nations race to win friends and influence through vaccine distribution
As the pandemic grinds on, Russia, India and China are competing to gain influence and political clout abroad through the vehicle of vaccine diplomacy.

Tue, 9 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
Supreme Court of Canada to decide whether to hear Mike Duffy's Senate lawsuit case
The Supreme Court of Canada will decide Thursday if it will hear Sen. Mike Duffy's appeal to launch a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Senate.

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 21:10:56 EST
Abusers from Mount Cashel Orphanage victimized boys in B.C., lawsuit alleges
A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges.

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 08:39:37 EST
Polar vortex breaks temperature records across Prairies, bitter cold expected to linger
A polar vortex continues to bring bitter cold to the Prairies, resulting in the cancellation of schools and buses in all major Prairie cities.

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 22:05:53 EST
Using terrorist list to label white supremacists risks repeating errors of 9/11 era, civil rights groups say
Civil liberties advocates are urging the Canadian government to find a more transparent way of tackling white supremacy and neo-fascism after 13 groups — including the Proud Boys — were designate...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:30:51 EST
Chinese-Canadians worry about racism, job losses one year into pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many Canadians, but for Chinese-Canadians the impacts have been magnified by racism aimed at individuals and businesses, community leaders say. ...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 04:00:00 EST
Injured woman secretly videotaped by insurer, then wrongly accused of fraud
An Ontario woman was secretly followed and videotaped by the organization that should have been helping her recover from a workplace injury. Instead, Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board tri...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 19:41:02 EST
Mine blockade sparks solidarity protests across Nunavut
Community members across Nunavut came out in peaceful protests today, to show solidarity with a group of hunters who continue to blockade the Mary River iron ore mine on North Baffin Island. ...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 07:42:30 EST
Some provinces will see COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift today
People in Alberta, Quebec and Nova Scotia are seeing some COVID-19 restrictions lifted Monday, while students in more than a dozen public health regions in Ontario who had been learning remotely ventu...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:48:43 EST
Quebec need not provide online learning to all students, province's top court says
The Quebec government does not have to make online learning available to every student in the province, the Quebec Superior Court ruled Monday.

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:54:34 EST
Alberta reverses direction on coal development and reinstates 1976 policy, for now
In the wake of mounting opposition to its sudden decision to cancel a 44-year-old policy that protected parts of the Rockies from coal development, the Alberta government now says it will reinstate th...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 04:47:40 EST
11 new cases of COVID-19 in N.L., in largest single-day report since April
Newfoundland and Labrador reported 11 new cases on Monday, including several related to a cluster at Mount Pearl Senior High School, and officials introduced new restrictions in an effort to curb comm...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 06:16:50 EST
Winter storm wallops Maritimes, closing most schools
Most Maritimers woke up to a deep blanket of snow Monday morning.

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:29:57 EST
Helmut Oberlander, ex-Nazi interpreter, has deportation hearing postponed
Helmut Oberlander, 96, a former Nazi interpreter, had his admissibility hearing before the immigration division of the Immigration and Refugee Board cancelled on Monday after the Federal Court of Cana...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:27:47 EST
3 accused of giving N.S. gunman ammunition named in lawsuit filed by families
Three people accused of giving ammunition to the man responsible for killing 22 people in Nova Scotia have now been added as defendants to the proposed class-action lawsuit launched by families of the...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:27:05 EST
'A blessing:' Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco finds way back on the ice during COVID-19
Since the bus crash that killed 16 people and injured a dozen others, Straschnitzki's focus has been on making the national sledge hockey team and winning a gold medal for Canada at the Paralympic Gam...



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