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Lia Scanlan, former communications director for the Nova Scotia RCMP, sent a letter to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki last year calling her behavior "appalling, unprofessional and extremely belittling."
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Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says the federal government is considering extending its suspension of random COVID-19 tests for airport arrivals because it hasn't sorted out how to move the tests out of airports.
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Airbnb is making permanent its ban on parties at homes listed on the site for short-term rentals.
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B.C. fire experts are urging the province to support a movement by Indigenous groups to reclaim their roles as fire keepers in an effort to control devastating wildfires.
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Katie Potts broke her back, lost her leg and part of her hand in a car accident last summer.
She says she wouldn't have seen her next birthday if it hadn't been for the Good Samaritans that pulled over to help.
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#BREAKING: R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering last September.
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The lawyer for a Fraser Valley naturopath facing investigation for selling fecal microbiota transplants to families of autistic children argued his client isn’t obligated to follow scientific evidence.
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#BREAKING: 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges in the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.
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Officials in B.C. have reached a $150-million proposed settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada over the sale and marketing of opioid-based pain medicines.
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The number of dead has risen to 53 in what is believed to be the deadliest human smuggling episode near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Accounting firm Ernst & Young will pay $100 million US to settle charges that its auditors cheated on ethics exams and that it misled the agency's investigators.
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The World Health Organization says sustained transmission of monkeypox worldwide could see the virus move into high-risk groups such as, like children and those who are pregnant.
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An FCC commissioner has asked Apple and Google to consider banning TikTok from their app stores for what he calls "its pattern of surreptitious data practices."
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#Analysis: There was a lot of talk around the G7 table about denying Russia victory in Ukraine.
But there's a difference between not losing, and winning.
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Canadian sports icons including Stacey Allaster, Donovan Bailey and Angela James are among the 85 new appointees to the Order of Canada this year.
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“This government is not very good at explaining itself and not very good at just stating clearly and directly, ‘Here's what happened. Here's why it happened.’� on some of the challenges for the Liberals as Parliament breaks for the summer: cbc.ca/1.6504700
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Canada's Senate is nearly 20 per cent vacant after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowed some seats in the upper chamber to go unfilled, in some instances for years at a time.
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The United States opened the NATO leaders summit in Madrid by putting some serious firepower on the table to bolster the alliance's defences throughout Europe.
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Earlier this month, 50 Calgarians were summoned from a mall's food court and told to go at once to the nearby Calgary Courts Centre to participate in jury selection.
They couldn't refuse.
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St. Catharines city council has passed a motion to begin consulting with migrant workers on city initiatives that affect them, such as its upcoming Active Transportation Master Plan.
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A young girl with cerebral palsy joined her school’s running club for a 5K, thanks to sheer determination and an accessible tricycle. #TheMoment
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An Indigenous academic says she was unlawfully detained by police after she faced racial discrimination from medical staff at a hospital in Sudbury, Ont.
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Today, on why he thinks Trudeau’s Liberals are “now arguably in as difficult a stage as it's maybe ever been, which is a funny thing to say for a government that's been through some pretty big crises.� Listen here: cbc.ca/1.6504700
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The U.S. FDA vaccine committee has voted that the next wave of COVID booster shots should target the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in addition to the original strain.
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#Analysis: Despite weeks of headline-making testimony, it seems unclear how much the hearings into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are resonating with the American public.
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One of the judges who presided over the court hearings of Freedom Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered serious enough to require police intervention.
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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.
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Preliminary results show symptoms are related to microscopic abnormalities that affect how oxygen is exchanged from the lungs to red blood cells.
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Canadian divers Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray scored 79.68 points on their sixth and final dive to clinch third place in men's 10-metre platform synchro.
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23-year-old hasn't played for Canada since he was 17 due to NBA commitments.
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Inflation tops list of most important issues of concern, mentioned by 4 in 10 Albertans.
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More than 130 military flights landed at St. John's airport in May; highest number since 2019.
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Andreescu won 91 per cent of first-serve points and converted five of 10 break-point chances in a match that took just 54 minutes to complete.
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Emergencies Act was invoked in February to address the weeks-long anti-vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa.
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After urgent top-level talks, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said "we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO."
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Naomi Hunter, the provincial leader of the Saskatchewan Greens, says that the party's leadership contest rules are so strict they would all but rule out Elizabeth May from running for the leadership.
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Toronto-Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns to be interim leader, source says.
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International research suggests heat wave in India and Pakistan was 30 times more likely due to global warming.
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