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Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday. Cook was “a passionate ambassador” for both the museum and Canadian military history, and his contributions to the Ottawa museum over the past two-plus decades have been “enormous,” …

Warren Shepell had an unsettling experience this month when boarding his flight from Cleveland heading home to Toronto. Just before getting on the plane, he says two uniformed officers approached him on the boarding ramp (Jetway), and one took his photo.  “I was aghast. I felt ambushed,” said Shepell, a …

The Collectors is a series that highlights unique collections and the people behind them. Want to nominate a collector to be featured as part of this series? Email Kelly.Provost@cbc.ca Retired major league baseball players from Canada know Kelly Sage as “the Canadian card guy.” For many of them, the Saskatoon …

In her Grade 8 to Grade 12 classrooms, Annie Ohana says ideas with toxic undertones are often not far away. Like earlier this school year, when she was handing out cups for an activity, and a boy asked if any part of it would “lower [his] testosterone.” The student conceded …

Warning: This story discusses school violence, sexual assault and suicide. When Trina Costantini-Powell began brainstorming what to feature in the 1970s room during her Ottawa high school’s centennial, she thought of Nixon, Trudeau and the Vietnam War. But when she and other Glebe Collegiate Institute graduates gathered amid all the …

There’s growing interest among U.S. investors in the Canadian oilpatch, a trend driven by friendlier rhetoric from the federal government and a belief that the industry north of the border will more reliably return cash to them in the years ahead. Jeremy McCrea, a Calgary-based managing director at BMO Capital …

Travis Jones says what should have been a routine oil change at Canadian Tire turned into a terrifying highway emergency after staff used plastic zip ties to secure a critical part of his car — marking the start of a two-year fight for answers.  He says as soon as he left …

Some Canadian jewelry brands are raising their prices as a surge in demand for gold — incited by investors’ fears of a shaky economic outlook — pushes the market for this precious metal to record highs. With confidence in the U.S. dollar eroding, and uncertainty weighing on the global economy, more …

A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison. Matthew Lane, 20, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margaret Guzman in Worcester, Mass., after he pleaded guilty in …

WARNING: This article contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​that themselves or know someone who has. A Scottish jury has convicted a man for killing his Canadian girlfriend in the remote Shetland Islands of Scotland, and a judge has ruled he must spend …