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TORONTO – The NBA has banned Jontay Porter for life games after completing an investigation into gambling allegations against the former Toronto Raptors’ two-way player. A league investigation found that Porter violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games …
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 »B.C. man faces lifetime ban from entering U.S. after border agents find forgotten bottle of CBD oil in his car
As the owner of an events company doing business with Christmas festivals in the U.S., Jonathan Houweling crosses the Peace Arch border in Surrey, B.C., dozens of times a year without issue. But during his latest trip on Nov. 7, he was chosen for a random search, where a border agent found …
Read More »What Queen Elizabeth’s lifetime of duty should mean to us now
“Duty” and “service” might seem like odd words to apply to a queen or king. They are figures of power, privilege and luxury — people who live in castles with any number of assistants at their beck and call. But those words were foremost in the official statements that followed Queen …
Read More »I unlearned a lifetime of Russian propaganda to figure out what information to believe
This First Person column is written by Tatiana Lebedeva who moved from Russia to Canada in 2014. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. It was late on Feb. 23 when I read the first reports of bombing in Ukraine. A friend texted that her …
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