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Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. By all accounts, Virginia Collins was a good mother to her son, Jacob. There were never …
Read More »James Poker aged out of a treatment centre at 16. Nobody told his father
James Poker’s time in care was filled with contradictions. At home in Natuashish, his father received notes from his caregivers stating he was happy and thriving while in out-of-province placements in Ontario and Saskatchewan. In reality he was a chronic runaway. He went AWOL dozens of times and was often …
Read More »Veteran overpaid $70K in rehab benefits, originally told to repay
Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. Stuart Micklethwaite received a letter from Veterans Affairs Canada last month stating he owed them more …
Read More »Carney says he told Trump ‘I meant what I said in Davos,’ contradicting U.S. account
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. Prime Minister Mark Carney is dismissing a claim that he walked back the remarks he made …
Read More »Children’s Aid Society knew women zip-tied boys into pyjamas but didn’t intervene, Ontario murder trial told
WARNING: This story details allegations of child abuse. The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) knew Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber were zip-tying two boys into one-piece pyjamas and their case worker didn’t tell them to stop, according to an email shown at the couple’s weeks-long murder trial in Milton, Ont. Holly …
Read More »You told us how you’re keeping holiday costs down this year
This story is a direct reflection of audience members, like you, who sent their holiday cost-saving tips to ask@cbc.ca. Tell us how you’re saving money this time of year by clicking the ‘Join the Conversation’ button above. ‘Tis the season for expensive gifts and extravagant feasts, right? Well, it doesn’t …
Read More »‘It would be wrong’: Why Richmond, B.C., residents weren’t told about First Nation’s claim to title
From the outset of its landmark claim for Aboriginal title, the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) Nation claimed its beef was not with private property owners. In May 2017, lawyers for the Quw’utsun, the federal Crown, B.C and Richmond spent two days in a Victoria courtroom debating the merits of notifying more than …
Read More »Child fell off Disney cruise ship after mom told her to pose for photo on railing, police say
A five-year-old girl who fell off a Disney Dream cruise ship in June had been posing for a photo on a porthole railing at the request of her mother, according to Florida authorities in reports obtained by CBC News. A report from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office called the accident …
Read More »Whitmer told Trump in private that Michigan auto jobs depend on a tariff change of course
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met privately in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump to make a case he did not want to hear: The automotive industry he said he wants to save was being hurt by his tariffs. The Democrat came with a slide deck to make her points …
Read More »‘Shock’ and ‘panic’ as new daycare operators in Alberta told they won’t get funding after all
Albertans in the process of setting up new child-care facilities say they’ve had the rug pulled out from under them as the Alberta government abruptly informed them last week they would not qualify for grants under the federal-provincial child-care agreement. “I am devastated,” said Arshdeep Kaur, who is in the process …
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