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The Conservatives are joining a growing number of calls for Canada Soccer to cancel a controversial exhibition game against Iran set for next month in Vancouver. The families of those who died aboard Flight PS752 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the plane in 2020 — killing all …

When Cammi Granato was young, she had a fantasy: she and her hockey-mad brothers would win the lottery and buy a hockey team and manage it together.  This plan, they figured, was the only way Granato, as a girl, would be able to contribute. Tony and Don Granato went on …

Indigenous leaders in Quebec continue to call for an exemption to Bill 96 after the contentious legislation overhauling the Charter of the French language was passed Tuesday.  Bill 96 will limit the use of English across many public services, as well as the court system, and impose more restrictive language requirements …

It is inevitable that if incomes fail to keep pace with a 6.8 per cent inflation rate, many Canadian wage earners are forced to scrimp.  But economists who study financial behaviour have found that even those who can afford to keep spending are also looking for ways to cut back. …

Children across the globe and Canada who used online educational technology during the pandemic had their personal data secretly harvested and sent to advertising companies, according to a new report published by Human Rights Watch. According to the report, these online educational products had the capacity to monitor children and collect data on “who …

Winona Ryder can’t believe how many years have passed since Stranger Things made its debut in July 2016. “Can you believe that? I thought it was five [years],” the actor said in an interview with CBC News. After a years-long hiatus, fans of the ’80s-inspired science-fiction horror/drama series can make …

Despite public awareness campaigns and law enforcement training to deter marijuana-impaired driving, a third of Canadians who’ve recently used cannabis say they’ve been behind the wheel after consuming, according to a new government survey. The online survey, conducted in January 2022 by EKOS for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada …

Police services across Ontario are facing growing calls for reform, yet the issue has been largely left off the political radar during this provincial election campaign, public safety experts told CBC News.  Its absence from the campaign trail shouldn’t come as a surprise, and that’s a problem, said Michael Kempa, a professor …

To say Phil Brown is a popular athlete in the Annapolis Valley would be an understatement. He calls himself Downtown Phil Brown and he’s known to everyone at the Motiv Fitness centre in New Minas, N.S. Brown recently came back from the Canadian powerlifting championships in St. John’s, N.L., with …

This story idea came from audience members, like you, who got in touch with us. Send us your questions about COVID-19 and masking. We are listening: ask@cbc.ca As Canadians look ahead to summer vacation plans with friends and family, there are still lingering questions about which safety precautions are necessary …