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Two young adults have been arrested after an assault on a ride-share vehicle driver on Jan. 18 at a restaurant in the 600 block of St. James Street in Winnipeg. Investigators learned that on the date of the incident, a group of suspects entered a ride-sharing vehicle. The driver explained …
Read More »Canadian Premier League teams add young soccer talent to rosters via U Sports draft
Expansion Vancouver FC added to its roster Thursday by taking Anthony White and Ameer Kinani with the first two picks of the CPL U Sports draft. The eight Canadian Premier League clubs were allowed to each select two players from a list of 199 university athletes who declared for the …
Read More »4 months after young girl’s body was found in the Grand River, police still don’t know who she is
Four months after the body of a girl, between the age of 10 months and two-years old, was found in the Grand River near Dunnville, Ont., police still don’t know who she is or how she died. Emergency crews responded to a call around 1:22 p.m. on May 17, after …
Read More »‘It’s a slippery slope’: How young men fall into online radicalization
Reid Brown remembers the first time he got sucked in by the algorithm — he was just 13, watching videos after school when YouTube started pushing him to controversial content. As time went on, the videos became increasingly extreme, says Brown, now 21. “It started out pretty benign,” he recalls. …
Read More »COVID-19 vaccination low among young Alberta children ahead of predicted fall surge
More than a month after Alberta children under five became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, uptake is slower than expected, and some experts are urging parents to consider the shot as fall approaches. According to provincial data, 4.6 per cent of kids between the ages of six months and four …
Read More »TIFF 2022 is supported by young talent. Here are some of the stars leading the charge
At this year’s Toronto Film International Festival, organizers are boasting an increased number of movies over the prior two years’ reduced, hybrid editions. But along with more movies is more emerging talent, as many of the biggest and most impressive productions at TIFF 2022 star brand-new faces. CBC News has compiled a …
Read More »Candlelight vigil planned for 6 young people killed in Barrie, Ont., crash
A candlelight vigil is set to take place today to honour the six young people killed in last weekend’s Barrie, Ont., car crash. The six victims, all in their early 20s, were found dead at the site of a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning, hours after police reported them missing. …
Read More »They came to Toronto as a young immigrant couple. A crash has now forever changed their lives
On the inside of Carlos Bastarrachea’s right forearm is a tattoo of an airplane circling a globe with the date Dec. 6, 2020, the date when he and his wife Emilia Ballester arrived to start their new life in Toronto. She has the same one, meant to look like a passport stamp. “We …
Read More »Growing crop of young farmers in Manitoba raises hopes for future
When Anastasia Fyk finished high school and left her family’s farm, she never imagined she’d live there again. But after eight years abroad, concerns about climate change drew her back to western Manitoba and her family’s land northwest of Dauphin, with the goal of finding a more sustainable way to …
Read More »Sharing is caring: How a program is trying to retain young construction talent in rural Alberta
Three construction associations created a worker-share program in a bid to encourage young construction workers to stay in rural Alberta — and so far it’s working. A variety of factors can impact the construction industry in rural Alberta, such as a project’s nature of work, an aging workforce and a limited number of …
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