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Opioid-related death count up to more than 11,500 nationally: government data
OTTAWA - Canada's opioid crisis claimed the lives of more than 11,500 people between January 2016 and December 2018, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported Thursday. New ...
Jun 15, 2019
The mysterious flooding of western Newfoundland's Bottomless Pond
DEER LAKE, N.L. - The small lake in western Newfoundland was named Bottomless Pond for a good reason. With no visible streams or rivers flowing from its banks, locals say the lake ...
Jun 15, 2019
After partisan bickering, House backs motion to end veterans homelessness
OTTAWA - The House of Commons has supported a backbench MP's bid to have the government work to end veterans homelessness after days of partisan bickering. The motion from Ontario Liberal MP Neil...
Jun 15, 2019
'Love wins:' How a N.S. town collaborated to protect kidnapped women in Africa
AMHERST, N.S. - Simple signs with a pair of blue hearts capture a small town's sentiments over the rescue of two young Maritime women from kidnappers in Ghana. A sign on the main street...
Jun 15, 2019
UN says Canada's plan to rescue Wood Buffalo National Park not enough
The status of Canada's largest park as a World Heritage Site remains wobbly after a United Nations body expressed grave doubts about a federal plan to rescue it. "Considerably more effo...
Jun 15, 2019
Federal government making electronic logs mandatory for truck, bus drivers
ETOBICOKE, Ont. - Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices - one of the recommendations from a coroner's report into the Humboldt Broncos bu...
Jun 15, 2019
Metals mines, accounting for most federal enviro assessments, OK with Bill C-69
OTTAWA - The head of the Mining Association of Canada says the hotly contested federal environmental assessment bill is welcome in the industry it will affect the most. "This promises to be a better s...
Jun 15, 2019
Montreal borough reverts to Fete nationale festival name after uproar
Montreal festival organizers have learned the hard way that trying to rebrand Quebec's Fete nationale celebrations simply doesn't fly in these parts. The organizers of the first Festival du Solst...
Jun 15, 2019
Data show alcohol the main cause of substance-related deaths in hospital
VANCOUVER - Heavy drinking landed Dawn Nickel in the emergency department four times - twice for alcohol poisoning and two more times when she took pills with alcohol to try and kill herself. "I had n...
Jun 15, 2019
Relationship with Metis Nation a model for reconciliation: Trudeau
OTTAWA - The Canadian government's relationship with the Metis Nation is a tangible and concrete example of reconciliation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. At a meeting known as the ...
Jun 15, 2019
