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Wed, 3 Aug 2022 10:29:18 EDT
'I could clean up my house with a rake,' says homeowner who lost cabin in B.C. wildfire
Les Murzsa was in the process of installing the last shingles on his cabin when wildfire destroyed the entire building near Keremeos, B.C., on Friday, leaving its owner with nothing but a pile of grey...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:21:19 EDT
Calgary had no ambulances available an average of 420 times per month to start 2022
Data from Alberta Health Services indicates Calgary's ambulance performance and response times continue to decline as red alerts more than doubled in the first six months of this year compared with th...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 16:16:37 EDT
Freeze funding for Sask. Christian school facing 'sickening' abuse allegations: Opposition, students
Provincial government funding to a Saskatoon Christian school must be frozen in light of  a series of abuse allegations, the NDP Opposition says. Some former students of Saskatoon's Christian Centre...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 13:36:30 EDT
Charest, Baber and Aitchison keep it courteous in final Conservative leadership debate
Three of the five candidates vying to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada took part in the race's final debate Wednesday evening in Ottawa in what proved to be a courteous, spar...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 06:50:57 EDT
Police arrest man in video of transphobic hate incident on Hamilton bus
Hamilton police are asking witnesses to come forward after seeing a video of a Hamilton man hurling transphobic and racist insults toward passengers on an HSR bus.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 16:02:28 EDT
Province kicks in $73M, feds up to $60M to upgrade northern Manitoba railway line
The provincial and federal governments announced Wednesday they are spending roughly $133 million to upgrade northern Manitoba's rail line, which has had lengthy service disruptions despite being th...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:15:52 EDT
'I just dig deep': Manitoba expat places 1st in Canadian Death Race 15 months after near-fatal accident
Lindsey Klassen took first place in the women's Canadian Death Race this weekend and was eighth overall. The Manitoba expat, originally from Cooks Creek, achieved the feat 15 months after a horrific t...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:30:11 EDT
Robotic arm helps with spinal surgery for the 1st time in Canada
The first spinal robotic surgery was performed at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. A robotic arm was used to place titanium screws and rods in three vertebrae.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:34:29 EDT
Ottawa tells Saskatchewan Cree Nation it's 'deeply sorry' for assimilative 'colony scheme'
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller has travelled to Peepeekisis Cree Nation to deliver an apology for the government's implementation of the File Hills Colony, a settlement that later led...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:56:33 EDT
Ford says Ontario getting health care it needs despite hospital department closures
As hospital departments across Ontario have been forced to shut their doors and scale back hours in recent weeks, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that the province’s health-care system is still mee...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:26:35 EDT
Should this pre-Confederation, yellow brick home be razed to make room for a road?
A growing number of people in southwestern Ontario are holding out hope they can save a pre-Confederation home from being bulldozed. A developer wants to raze the building to make way for subdivision ...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 10:34:10 EDT
Online crimes involving extortion see stark increase during COVID-19 pandemic
Police-reported extortion cases in Canada rose nearly 300 per cent in the last decade, new statistics say, as the crime swelled online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:47:00 EDT
Celebrated Canadian civil rights lawyer Clayton Ruby dead at 80
Distinguished Canadian civil rights lawyer and giant of the legal profession Clayton Ruby has died at the age of 80.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
'A new phenomenon': Big investors eye Canada's home market, ReMax president says
Investment firms are buying up U.S. homes — a development that's "just in its infancy" in Canada, but a trend that could make it harder for families to buy homes.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 05:00:00 EDT
Women seek judicial review after N.S. health authority denies out-of-country surgery request
Two women are asking a Nova Scotia court to review the Health Department's decision not to cover out-of-country surgery for their medical conditions.

Tue, 2 Aug 2022 19:27:53 EDT
Data 'fragments' can't identify Dutch man as Amanda Todd's extortionist, says defence
The Crown wrapped up its closing arguments Tuesday, telling a B.C. Supreme Court jury trial that there was a "treasure trove of information'' linking Aydin Coban to the harassment and extortion of B.C...

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 09:11:43 EDT
New ropeless fishing technology, which can help save whales, tested off Newfoundland
Fishers can release the traps into the water and find them again through an acoustic signal.

Tue, 2 Aug 2022 22:37:38 EDT
Massive hailstone found near Markerville, Alta., breaks Canadian record, research group says
Grapefruit to softball-sized hail came down near Innisfail, Alta., on Monday, and one of the hailstones has broken a Canadian record, according to the Northern Hail Project.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 06:00:00 EDT
Newcomers get a taste of the home they were forced to flee at National Ukraine Festival
Newcomer Ukrainians Lesia and Hnat Yaroshenko travelled more than 300 kilometres to attend the first national Canadian Ukrainian Festival since 2019.

Wed, 3 Aug 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Indigenous group offers recommendations to Hamilton police after alleged assault by officer
The Hamilton Regional Indian Centre (HRIC) is making recommendations to the Hamilton Police Service (HPS) to help address the "harm done by law enforcement agencies" against Indigenous peoples. ...



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