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From the outside, at nearly 90 metres long and eight metres wide, HMCS Ojibwa is huge. Inside, however, it becomes abundantly clear there is simply no such thing as social distancing on a submarine.  “Compartment sizes basically closed us during most of COVID,” said Ian Raven, director of the Elgin Military Museum and HMCS Ojibwa.  …

Regina engineer Scott Gullacher will face a disciplinary hearing next month over allegations that he broke the rules when he designed a bridge in rural Saskatchewan that collapsed just hours after it was opened to the public.  On Sept. 14, 2018, the Rural Municipality (RM) of Clayton announced on its Facebook …

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association (MWBA) was made for people like Ellen Hatt. Hatt, a 25-year-old from Halifax, finished her four-year run on the Acadia women’s basketball team in 2019. Graduation, however, brought an abrupt end to her basketball career. “It was such an identity for me. But there was …

A 40-year-old innocent woman was killed in southeast Calgary on Tuesday in what police are calling a brazen and reckless late-night road rage incident. Friends and family have identified the woman as Angela McKenzie, a mother of five children. A family member told CBC News that the children’s father died a few …

Since flood waters rose in her community, K’atl’odeeche First Nation Chief April Martel has barely slept except for a 10-minute nap here, an hour there, if she’s lucky. Volunteers are hard at work on the reserve, going door to door to ask residents to leave their homes early, pack the essentials and …

A group of protesters stood outside Equinor headquarters in St. John’s Wednesday to denounce the approval of the Bay du Nord oil project. (Ted Dillon/CBC) Enivronmental law group Ecojustice has launched a lawsuit against the federal government that aims to overturn the massive Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland’s east coast. Ecojustice, …

Quebec is asking the federal government to close a popular, unofficial border crossing south of Montreal because the province can’t handle the number of asylum seekers entering the country, but refugee advocates are rejecting Quebec’s claims. More than 100 refugee claimants are entering Quebec every day from the United States …

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the aggressive verbal harassment he endured outside a campaign event in Peterborough, Ont. was one of the most troubling experiences of his political career. Singh was accosted Tuesday by protesters before and after a rally at the campaign office of provincial NDP candidate Jen Deck. …

Workers arriving at the Amazon warehouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning were met by a handful of people in bright yellow vests with pamphlets and signs saying “Amazon needs a union!” Members of Teamsters Local 879 said they stepped up their efforts after hearing from some workers at the Mountain fulfilment …

Finance Canada is defending its $10 billion loan guarantee for Trans Mountain to help the company finish its pipeline expansion after opposition parties and environmental groups called it a fossil fuel subsidy. This financial support comes after the government said in February that no more public money would be poured …