A Chinese ban on Canadian beef that industry officials expected would be short-lived remains in place 17 months later, and industry representatives say they remain in the dark about the reasons. China has been blocking beef shipments from Canadian processing plants ever since an atypical case of BSE, or mad …
Read More »Okanagan family sues, seeking answers in son’s police-involved death
It’s been more than three years since an Okanagan man died after police tried to arrest him. But Clayton Donnelly’s parents say they still don’t know the details of what happened. “We want details of what exactly happened on that night and why did a traffic stop turn into a …
Read More »Leafs look for answers after ugly Game 1 loss
TORONTO – Sheldon Keefe calmly went over strategy and tactics. The Maple Leafs head coach also put on his amateur psychologist’s hat in the wake of a disastrous playoff opening. Toronto not only fell flat in Game 1 of its first-round series with the battle-tested Tampa Bay Lightning — Keefe’s …
Read More »A lifetime of agony: families of missing, murdered Inuit women call for answers
OTTAWA — Every day on his way to work in 2016, Veldon Coburn drove past Bordeleau Park, by the edge of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa. On a September day that year, while he drove past the park, Coburn heard on the radio that a body had been found …
Read More »My father died 5 years ago in a hospital — and we’re still seeking answers
This First Person column is by Sonali Karnick, a CBC journalist in Montreal who has been searching for answers to why her father died. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. When the hospital called my mother and told the family to get there as …
Read More »Woman mistakenly declared dead by Service Canada for almost a year demands answers
At first, Teresa Shum and her husband, Mark, thought the situation was funny. The Markham, Ont., couple received a notice in February from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that one of Mark’s tax credits was declined due to his marital status being changed to widower. “We were really taken by surprise,” Shum …
Read More »Witness demands answers, calls for better mental health support following Saanich bank robbery
Shelli Fryer has spent the past six weeks feeling worried, isolated and overwhelmed. She was held hostage during a bank robbery in Saanich, B.C., on June 28. Since then, she’s struggled to find the emotional support needed to work through her trauma. “It’s hard. I am not really recovering,” she …
Read More »Death of Noelle O’Soup ‘a familiar tragedy’ and answers are needed, Indigenous leaders say
Noelle “Elli” O’Soup, an Indigenous girl reported missing from her Port Coquitlam, B.C. home over a year ago, died in early May in a Vancouver apartment, authorities say. She was 14 years old. Noelle, a member of Key First Nation in Saskatchewan, was one of two people found dead in an apartment …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine: Do I need a booster shot if I got the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine? A virologist answers 5 questions
For people who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the past few months have been a bit of a bumpy ride with news of side effects, pauses and restarts and now boosters. Maureen Ferran is a virologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has been keeping tabs on …
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