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Sat, 5 Jun 2021 14:59:54 EDTTaya Currie becomes 1st female player drafted to Ontario Hockey League
Goaltender Taya Currie made history on Saturday by becoming the first female athlete ever chosen in the Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection draft.
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 05:35:13 EDTMajor G7 tax agreement only first step toward global deal: Freeland
Canada's finance minister says a deal reached by G7 countries on establishing a minimum corporate tax and taxing the profits of major multinationals will help end "jurisdiction shopping." Canada is st...
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 11:27:40 EDTPope meets 2 Canadian cardinals as calls grow for Catholic Church apology for residential schools
Pope Francis met with both Vatican-based Canadian cardinals on Saturday as the country reels from the discovery of the remains of about 215 children near a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.,...
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 18:57:43 EDTAlberta cabinet minister says premier should apologize for Sky Palace dinner, cancel culture remarks
Alberta cabinet minister Leela Aheer says Premier Jason Kenney should apologize to Albertans after photos circulated of a dinner he held with three ministers on the patio of a government building.
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Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:41:26 EDTMore Shoppers Drug Mart customers complain they were pushed to use self-checkout
For the second time in two years, CBC News has heard complaints from Shoppers Drug Mart customers that some of the chain's stores are pushing people to use self-checkout and reserving cashiers for cas...
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 11:53:06 EDTTrudeau says Ford trying to 'deflect' criticism of Ontario's COVID-19 response by slamming Ottawa
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is trying to "deflect" criticism of his response to the COVID-19 pandemic by pointing fingers at the federal government's handling of the country's borders, Prime Minister ...
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 08:54:40 EDTCoronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Saturday
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, said Saturday that 75 per cent of Canadians should be fully vaccinated in order for the country to have a "safer fall."
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDTHow radar technology is used to discover unmarked graves at former residential schools
Ground-penetrating radar is one of the tools that led to the shocking revelation that there appear to be the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School...
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 10:50:39 EDTRoyal assent given to bill creating national day for truth and reconciliation
The swift passage of Bill C-5 means Sept. 30 will become the first of what is to be an annual national day for truth and reconciliation.
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDTThe House: Is it past time Canada had an Indigenous governor general?
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc isn’t saying how many names of possible candidates for governor general will be sent to the prime minister — or whether the search committee has ...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:40:30 EDTCanada secures more Pfizer shots as focus shifts to second doses
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that the government will buy three million more vaccine shots from Pfizer than originally planned — an effort to secure more of the product that has bec...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:57:03 EDTFully vaccinated rotational workers will no longer need to self-isolate upon entry to N.S.
Effective Tuesday, rotational workers who have received both doses of a vaccine will no longer need to self-isolate upon entering the province, but they will need to continue to be tested.
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Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:05:51 EDTPremier rejects calls to apologize to N.B. doctor after COVID-19-related charge withdrawn
The defence team for Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is calling for an “unequivocal apology” from New Brunswick’s premier after the Crown dropped its charge against the family doctor who had been blamed a...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:08:08 EDTFoster care is modern-day residential school system: Inuk MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
In the wake of the tragic reported discovery of an unmarked burial site in Kamloops, B.C., the Liberals are facing tough questions about ongoing harms being suffered by Indigenous children in the chil...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:59:43 EDTInjunction granted against 2nd rodeo protesting Alberta's COVID-19 restrictions
A judge in Calgary has granted an injunction for Alberta Health Services to block a weekend rodeo that was planned in protest of COVID-19-related public health restrictions, dismissing the organizer...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:32:58 EDT'Natural climate solutions' are available to help Canada meet emissions targets, new study says
Canada could reach one-third of its greenhouse gas reduction targets by making better use of its vast forests, prairies and wetlands, says a report by more than three dozen scientists.
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:48:07 EDTEnergy Regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing
Canada Energy Regulator said it issued the order to immediately stop all clearing activity "to prevent harm to nesting birds in the pipeline project's right of way and to ensure Trans Mountain is corr...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 07:12:31 EDT'We're going to find them' — searching for the lost children of St. John's residential school
The federal government's promise to search former residential school sites for unmarked graves has Indigenous communities surrounding Chapleau, Ont., hopeful that the haunting questions about children...
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:05:43 EDTEconomy lost 68,000 jobs in May, unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.2%
Canada's labour market shed 68,000 jobs last month as tighter public health restrictions continued or were introduced in many regions of the country to slow the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fri, 4 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDTWealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore 'sham'
In 2010, Canada Revenue Agency auditors unearthed a scheme they called a “sham” that ultra-rich Canadians were using to dodge taxes. But previously unreported court records obtained by CBC’s The...