Canadian News
Largest recorded Alberta earthquake not natural, from oilsands wastewater: study
Peace River area rocked by series of quakes in November culminating with one at 5.6 magnitude
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Pope Francis’s tour came with a minimum $55-million price tag for Ottawa
‘Think of all the money that could have gone to survivors’
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What to know about new research on coffee and heart risks
American university study offers a rare controlled evaluation of caffeine’s effect
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Biden visit puts Canadian defence spending, Norad modernization back under microscope
Canada not meeting NATO standard for defence spending
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Ottawa to spend $1.5 billion to improve access to drugs for rare diseases
Duclos wants to increase coverage for existing drugs, create list of new and emerging treatments
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Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart wins $100,000 costs in NPA defamation case
Stewart was sued after he issued a news release in 2021 denouncing ‘hate and extremism’ in the NPA
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Police-reported hate crimes rise again, as pandemic worsens discrimination: StatCan
Reports up by 27 per cent in 2021, after a 35 per cent increase in 2020
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Transportation Safety Board report on fatal Atlantic sinking cites lax federal rules
Stability testing may have helped prevent 2020 sinking of a Nova Scotia scallop dragger
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First Nation chooses affluent Vancouver launch pad to reform Indigenous child welfare
Campaign aims at doing what’s best for children on the ‘front lines of colonization’
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A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water: UN
Estimated cost of meeting UN water and sanitation goals could reach $1 trillion a year
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