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Veteran on long-term disability waiting for family doctor since 2011

A Canadian navy veteran says he’s fed up with waiting for a primary care provider after having been on Prince Edward Island’s wait-list for 11 years. Matt Dobson moved to P.E.I. in 2011 after being medically released from the navy when he was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been …

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Small Ontario town rallies to replace Pride decorations after flags cut up, destroyed

People in the town of Minto, Ont., are supporting the local LGBTQ community after Pride decorations were cut up and destroyed in acts of vandalism that police are calling hate-motivated crimes. Between June 4 and 13, Pride flags at schools in Listowel, Harriston, Drayton and Mapleton were torn down, cut up and shredded, …

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Meet True North Airways’ newest — and youngest — commercial pilot

Isabel Fredette was 14 when she decided she wanted to become a pilot. She was a passenger with her pilot dad, who was practicing touch-and-go landing manoeuvres through narrows, which is a restricted water passage. “[The water] was kind of glassy, which is when the water is just perfect glass, …

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Pence pressure campaign from Trump the focus at Jan. 6 committee today

You can watch the hearing live here on CBCNews.ca on Thursday afternoon The Jan. 6 congressional committee is set Thursday afternoon to plunge into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring his vice-president Mike Pence to reject the electoral count — a highly unusual and potentially …

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What’s the monkeypox vaccine and who should get it?

As the number of confirmed monkeypox cases continues to rise in Canada, infectious disease and public health experts are providing vaccinations to those at risk of infection. Since monkeypox and smallpox are both part of the orthopox family of viruses, experts say some vaccines will work against both. But the vaccines being …

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Building code changes could take decades to ‘future-proof’ homes for extreme heat that’s here now

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our Changing Planet” to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page. The B.C. coroner’s report into the deaths of 619 …

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It’s one of Newfoundland’s most scenic beaches — and a bridge on the only road to it is due to be removed

The sandy beach on Ship Cove extends out to the sea stack jutting from the ocean’s floor in Bay St. George South. (Troy Turner/CBC) It may not see the tourists and traffic it did in previous decades, but if you ask residents of Bay St. George South, they’ll tell you …

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Elderly tenants told to vacate Fredericton apartments for Airbnb-style conversions

A senior Fredericton couple and their elderly neighbour, whose plight with rent increases last winter helped push the New Brunswick government to enhance tenant protections, are facing the loss of their apartments for good. Pauline Tramble, 67, her husband Charles, 85 and their neighbour Tayfun Orkus, 83 all received notices …

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Long-awaited report on money laundering in B.C. to be released today

The final report from B.C.’s public inquiry on money laundering is set to be released Wednesday morning. The document from former B.C. Supreme Court Justice Austin Cullen, which runs more than 1,800 pages, is the culmination of a process that began three years ago. The formation of the Commission of …

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Rare ‘triple-dip’ La Niña could mean a wild winter ahead for Western Canada

CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how it impacts everyday life. Our climate has been steadily …

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