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Quebec politicians fight for right to have Canadiens watch party in the Outaouais
Provincial politicians in Quebec have unanimously backed a motion calling for the National Hockey League to allow public Montreal Canadiens watch parties in the Outaouais.
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N.L. justice officials can’t say how many cases are tossed after trial delays. So we tracked them
The Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Justice says it does not have data on how many cases have been tossed due to R v. Jordan. So CBC manually tracked court dockets, attended hearings virtually and in person, and reviewed court audio to gather our own statistics over the past year and a half.
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St. Catharines, Ont., issues order to clean up abandoned, contaminated site of former GM plants
The City of St. Catharines, Ont., has issued a “repair, replace or demolish” order to owners of a long-abandoned and contaminated site that used to be two auto parts manufacturing plants once run by General Motors.
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Canadians may ask AI for medical advice but don’t want it replacing humans, poll suggests
A new poll on artificial intelligence and health care suggests that while some Canadians may be turning to chatbots for medical advice, they’re far less comfortable with the technology being used to make medical decisions or replace a visit with a doctor.
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WW I Canadian soldier with ties to Cape Breton identified
A previously unidentified grave in Northern France has been identified as Sergeant Norman Harold McLennan.
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A sanctuary secretly housed lions in Ontario cottage country — then came the uproar from neighbours
Some people living near the Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in the Parry Sound, Ont., area say a compound with lions rescued from a Quebec zoo was too close for comfort last summer. The sanctuary’s executive director says she wouldn’t automatically rule out accepting a lion or tiger in the future, if asked.
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‘As victims, we don’t have any rights’: Killer released to Toronto neighbourhood often visited by victim’s family
Zilla Parker fears running into her husband’s killer, who was recently released to live in a Toronto neighbourhood that she normally frequents. She described the anxiety created by the possibility she could walk out the door and run into the mentally ill man who killed her husband, Dominic Parker. “Dominic’s death wasn’t by a car…
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The hot pink glow seen from space: Why these Ontario greenhouse lights still shine at night
The hot pink and canary-coloured hues glow so bright, astronauts can snap photos of them from space. Fixed atop the largest concentration of greenhouses in North America, the multi-coloured lights have transformed both the night sky in a pocket of southwestern Ontario and the province’s multi-billion-dollar agriculture sector.
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From ‘Big 8’ radio to 1,602 condos: Windsor to weigh heritage status for CBC building
A piece of local history is on the agenda for next week’s Windsor city council meeting of the heritage standing committee. That is the CBC News Windsor building itself.
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Small business group tells Ottawa to take big swing at boosting jobs and growth
OTTAWA — With the Canadian economy facing a number of nasty headwinds, the country’s leading small business organization is calling on the federal government to take a big swing at boosting growth and jobs. In a pre-budget submission to the House of Commons finance committee, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is calling on…