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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The family of a Brampton, Ont. teen are devastated and looking for answers after he was …
Read More »U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours at the border and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat who represents an area of Michigan just …
Read More »What are the policies guiding Taser use in Alberta? The answers aren’t easy to find
This is the second of two-part CBC News report on Taser use by Edmonton police. To read the previous story, click here. Tasers have become widely used by police agencies across the country since their introduction to Canadian law enforcement in the late 1990s. Occasionally, people have died after being …
Read More »2 U.S. fighter jets fly over Gulf of Venezuela as lawmakers demand answers on boat strikes
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come …
Read More »Mystery illness has Manitoba parents seeking genetic answers in Florida
It was only a week after Beau Friesen was born that his parents knew something was wrong. Two years later, they still do not know what that is. Now, the Grunthal, Man., couple are heading to Florida in search of answers. As an infant, Beau was throwing up and had …
Read More »Search teams scour Air India plane crash site as death toll rises to 270, relatives press for answers
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in …
Read More »Spain, Portugal turn power back on, seek answers after one of Europe’s worst outages
Electricity was restored to almost all of Spain and Portugal on Tuesday morning following a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian Peninsula, but the cause of the blackouts remained a mystery. The widespread outage lasted roughly eight hours — in some regions longer — and shut down subway networks, …
Read More »More than 140 days after he was killed by Hamilton police, family of Erixon Kabera still waits for answers
Parfait Karekezi usually leaves his phone on silent whenever he goes to bed at night, but on the evening of Nov. 9, he decided to leave the ringer on. He got a call at around 1 a.m. informing him his brother, Erixon Kabera, had died. “Everything went on hold … I was …
Read More »Mother of fatal stabbing victim seeking answers from Ottawa Community Housing
The mother of a man who was fatally stabbed last month wants to know why one of the suspects charged in the killing was still living in the same Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) building as her son, despite being charged last year for an earlier stabbing at the same address. Sophie Johnson has been desperately …
Read More »Search for answers as respects paid to victims of Washington, D.C., crash
2 days ago News Duration 2:14 Officials investigating Wednesday’s mid-air crash between a military helicopter and passenger plane over Washington, D.C., are analyzing data from the black boxes recovered from the wreckage. They’re working to piece together the final moments before the collision. Even as the search for answers continues, …
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