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What’s old is new again: Winless Canadian junior hockey team makes ownership change
The GOHL’s Sarnia Legionnaires finished 0-50 for the 2025-2026 GOHL season, and immediately made a change at the top of the organization.
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Translating, restraining kids, teaching multiple grades at once: Alberta teachers describe complex classrooms
Data rarely tells the full story. So when CBC News emailed a questionnaire to tens of thousands of Alberta teachers this January, we invited them to share stories to illustrate what classroom complexity actually looks like for them. More than 4,000 teachers participated.
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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. farm sales hurt by Aboriginal title questions, MLA charges
VICTORIA — It was billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own prime ranch land” when 12 B.C. ranches totalling 182 square kilometres were put up for sale late last year. Yet when the deadline for initial offers to Monette Farms passed in January, there were no takers. The lack of sales was blamed on growing uncertainty about…
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WestJet, Porter fined tens of thousands over delays, not giving flyers enough food and drink
Getting hungry while waiting for a delayed flight could put you in a foul mood. It could also cost your airline tens of thousands of dollars in penalties, as two notices within a week by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) show. Here’s what to know. What were the rulings? Last Thursday, the CTA announced a…
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Iranian Canadians join Jews in condemning Al Quds Day anti-Israel protests
Canadian Jewish groups are calling on authorities to shut down Iran-backed Al-Quds Day protests in four cities this weekend, but the Jewish community isn’t the only one troubled by the show of support for the theocratic, fundamentalist regime. “Seeing these people chanting what I was hearing from those who were beating me on the streets…
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‘The bids just dried right up’: Iran-driven oil shock ripples through Canadian economy
A global supply shock triggered by war in the Middle East is rippling through Canada’s economy — pushing up costs for farmers, businesses and consumers even as surging energy prices boost the outlook for oil and gas producers and fuel exporters. Less than two weeks after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran effectively shut the world’s most…
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Opinion: Why Canada’s push for patents isn’t enough to win the IP war
There’s a new national consensus forming in Canadian policy circles, and it goes something like this: Canada is world-class at producing research, terrible at commercializing it, and the solution is to “own our IP .” File more patents . Keep the rights at home. Build a moat. I’m a patent professional. I make my living…
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Why more Fort McMurray non-profits are looking to side hustles to survive
Fort McMurray’s fundraising scene was once dominated by generous corporate donors and juicy government grants. Now, a tough economy is making some community non-profits adopt a business mindset to remain open.
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Posthaste: Why US$150 oil could actually be the remedy for spiking crude prices
The only way to tame oil prices is to “destroy demand,” says global energy consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd. The Scotland-based firm said global oil demand needs to fall to rebalance the market, but Brent crude (the European oil benchmark) would need to rise to “at least” US$150 to achieve that goal. “At this price level,…
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Man who murdered girlfriend gets reduced sentence partly due to his race
A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the…