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Apr 08, 2026
Canada's army is weighing faster timelines for new armoured vehicles while rethinking tanks in light of Ukraine's drone-dominated battlefield. Aging Leopards need replacement, but commanders say technology — including uncrewed systems — will shape decisions, even as other priorities like air defence and long-range strike rank higher.
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Apr 08, 2026
One woman was admitted with a life-threatening condition called exercise-induced or exertional rhabdomyolysis, rhabdo for short.
The illness can happen after an intense workout and is when muscle tissue breaks down, leaking enzymes and proteins into the bloodstream. In high amounts, the proteins can damage the kidneys and lead to an imbalance of electrolytes, which can cause dehydration and heart issues.
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Apr 08, 2026
In China, the energy landscape has reached a historic tipping point. For the first time, its total installed wind and solar capacity has officially surpassed that of coal. It's a shift driven by massive industrial scale and artificial intelligence — and Chinese energy giants have their sights set on the Canadian wilderness.
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Apr 08, 2026
As Eric Kripke's superhero satire The Boys releases the first two episodes of its fifth and final season today (with the last dropping on May 20), he's just glad to be able to say the show is ending on his terms.
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Apr 07, 2026
Hyeseong Kim scored twice and Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was strong over six-plus innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Toronto 4-1 on Tuesday to hand the Blue Jays their sixth straight loss.
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Apr 07, 2026
Young recycling enthusiast Himmat Rai and his mom, Joti Muker, tell The National about the moment Himmat celebrated his 5th birthday at a recycling facility in Maple Ridge, B.C.
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Apr 07, 2026
The Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association says serious questions surround Chief Warren Driechel and police lawyer Megan Hankewich for their statements about a recent manslaughter case involving the death of an eight-year-old girl named Nina Napope.
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Apr 07, 2026
Rock League has not been perfect through two days. But if the goal of this one-week Rock League preview season is proof of concept, then you can see how it all might come together.
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Apr 07, 2026
Canada's response to Israel's 2026 invasion of Lebanon has been unequivocal condemnation of what Prime Minister Mark Carney called "an illegal invasion." That's a marked contrast to Stephen Harper's defence of Israel's 2006 invasion.
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Apr 07, 2026
Blue Jays utility player Addison Barger has been put on the 10-day injured list, further testing the Toronto ball club's ability to withstand the multitude of injuries that have been piling up in the early days of the season.
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Apr 07, 2026
Over the weekend more than 1,000 spectators gathered in Ukraine to carefully open cloth bags and release dozens of rescued bats into the air. Alona Pryslutska, co-founder of the Ukrainian Bat Rehab Center, says not even the war is stopping this unconventional marker of the arrival of spring.
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Apr 07, 2026
Rory McIlroy will launch his Masters title defence Thursday alongside world No. 3 Cameron Young and amateur Mason Howell.
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Apr 07, 2026
Former University of Manitoba law school dean Jonathan Black-Branch, who was disbarred in Manitoba in 2024, has now also been disbarred in England and Wales.
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Apr 07, 2026
Canada's military operations commander has temporarily removed the officer in charge of the country's biggest overseas deployment. The decision by Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin comes after Col. James Smith was charged by military police with prejudice to good order regarding compensation irregularities while he commanded Task Force Latvia.
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Apr 07, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government has a plan to address infrastructure gaps across Canada with billions of dollars in funding over the coming decade.
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Apr 07, 2026
The Conservatives are calling for an ethics investigation into Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne in regards to the involvement of his partner in the Alto high-speed rail project. Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Champagne, saying the minister followed all of the ethics rules.
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Apr 07, 2026
A Catholic priest in Prince Edward Island who pleaded guilty last year to sexually abusing a child in the late 1980s has been sentenced to five years in a federal prison.
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Apr 07, 2026
Dan Levy struggled to find the words as he set foot in the Ontario town where the smash hit Schitt's Creek was filmed for the first time since the show wrapped.
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Apr 07, 2026
Dan Levy struggled to find the words as he set foot in the Ontario town where the smash hit Schitt's Creek was filmed for the first time since the show wrapped.
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Apr 07, 2026
Negotiations to rebalance the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement are likely to continue past the July 1 deadline, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Tuesday.
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Apr 07, 2026
A group that's been searching for missing children and unmarked graves at the former McIntosh Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario says it's been denied federal funding to continue its work. Here's what we know about the Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin project and why its funding hasn't been renewed.
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Apr 07, 2026
A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew.
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Apr 07, 2026
More than three months after the winning ticket for a record-setting $80-million Lotto Max win was sold in London, Ont., the massive jackpot is in the process of being claimed. Why did it take so long?
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Apr 07, 2026
Organizers for a music festival in London have cancelled the upcoming three-day event after the rapper Ye, who was slated to perform, has been barred from entering the U.K. following past antisemitic remarks.
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Apr 07, 2026
Organizers for a music festival in London have cancelled the upcoming three-day event after the rapper Ye, who was slated to perform, has been barred from entering the U.K. following past antisemitic remarks. The UK Home Office told CBC News that Ye's permission to travel was blocked because his presence would not be conducive to the public good.
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Apr 07, 2026
Southern Canadians have been occasionally treated to neon-soaked night skies of purples, pinks and greens during a peak in the sun's activity over the last two years. But the celestial light show put on by the northern lights will dim as the sun moves into a quieter phase of its 11-year cycle.
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Apr 07, 2026
Australia's most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, faces war crime charges on allegations he killed five unarmed Afghans while serving in Afghanistan from 2009 and 2012, police and media reported on Tuesday.
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Apr 07, 2026
Newfoundlanders were having a chuckle on Monday over international media reports saying passengers on a British Airways flight diverted to St. John's last week were stranded on a frozen island somewhere in Canada.
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Apr 07, 2026
The rapper Offset was shot Monday and is stable, according to a spokesperson, but his exact condition is unknown.
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Apr 07, 2026
A gunfight erupted outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, leaving two assailants dead and a police officer wounded, Turkey's Haberturk broadcaster reported.
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Apr 07, 2026
Three assailants opened fire at police outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, sparking a gunfight that left one attacker dead, Turkish officials said. The two other assailants were captured with injuries.
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Apr 07, 2026
Five years after Pete Pearson, 75, was diagnosed with a terminal lung condition, he was experiencing debilitating anxiety and depression known as "end-of-life distress." He wanted to try psilocybin — commonly known as magic mushrooms — to see if it helped. After a lengthy and futile attempt to gain access to the drug legally through Health Canada, Pearson decided this was a trip he needed to take no matter what.
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Apr 07, 2026
The physician who treated Heather Winterstein the day before she died in hospital from a severe reaction to bacterial infection said he may have erred in diagnosing her condition as being due to "social issues." She was discharged and died the next day, after she returned to hospital.
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Apr 07, 2026
Canadian Armed Forces members used their own personal social media accounts, computers and networks at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered information about Canadians, violating intelligence-gathering rules, according to a newly released report.
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Apr 07, 2026
Tick, tick, tick. This year's tax deadline is coming quick. Here's what tax experts who spoke with CBC News say you should keep in mind as you're filling out your return so you don't miss out on opportunities to find and save money.
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Apr 07, 2026
High tolls at Windsor's Ambassador Bridge are pushing commercial truck traffic north to Sarnia, where the Blue Water Bridge has become the busiest crossing on the Canada-U.S. border. The shift comes as the delayed, overbudget Gordie Howe bridge opening remains in limbo.
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Apr 07, 2026
Thousands of documents obtained by Radio-Canada's investigative program Enquête shed light on why Montreal isn't among the host cities, how much the event will cost Canadian taxpayers — about $1 billion for 13 games — and the strict conditions the cities of Toronto and Vancouver have to respect.
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Apr 07, 2026
A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can't be finalized because the RCMP's oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.
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Apr 06, 2026
Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver has confirmed the deaths of nine of ?its 10 workers who were abducted in Concordia, in the ?Mexican state of Sinaloa, ?in late January.
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Apr 06, 2026
Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Dalton Rushing — with a pair — and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs to power the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 14-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night at Rogers Centre.
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Apr 06, 2026
A pair of bald eagles found themselves in a tangle in Surrey, B.C., before power and fire crews helped a local wildlife rehabilitation group free the birds.
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Apr 06, 2026
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk will
undergo surgery to repair a left thumb fracture.
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Apr 06, 2026
A Winnipeg woman who lost thousands after scammers got into her bank account almost two months ago says she's "absolutely shocked" her bank's fraud department denied her appeals to refund her — disbelief she said comes in part because of how clearly fraudulent some of the transactions the bank allowed were.
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Apr 06, 2026
MacLeod, who announced last November that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer, will be leaving the team for an undetermined length of time as she continues her treatments, the PWHL club said Monday.
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Apr 06, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its
agents in Canada don't carry firearms, following questions about a
potential ICE presence at upcoming FIFA World Cup games.
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Apr 06, 2026
Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa overnight Monday, killing a 30-year-old woman, her two-year-old daughter and another woman, while damaging residential buildings and energy infrastructure, the regional governor said.
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Apr 06, 2026
Huxley the raven is a permanent rescue at Good Caws Crow Rescue in Prince George, B.C. In addition to pretending to sneeze, he likes to repeat his own name, play with squeaky toys and take baths.
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Apr 06, 2026
Retired lawyer Louis Stringer is always on the move. He regularly cycles the roads of his community of Gravelbourg, 200 km southwest of Regina, in summer and winter.
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Apr 06, 2026
Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC's Today show Monday for the first time in over two months, since her mother's disappearance Feb. 1. "OK, here we go. Ready or not, let's do the news," the longtime co-anchor said at the outset of the show.
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Apr 06, 2026
Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC's Today show on Monday for the first time in over two months, since her mother's disappearance Feb. 1. "OK, here we go. Ready or not, let's do the news," the longtime co-host said at the outset of the show.
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Apr 06, 2026
Savannah Guthrie is coming back to NBC's Today show Monday for the first time in over two months, since her mother's disappearance Feb. 1. She says she loves her job but is unsure how she'll manage.
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Apr 06, 2026
Jeremy Hansen carried an Innu Nation flag with him on the 10-day mission, launching Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Apr 06, 2026
They're the chili peppers in the spicy chicken at a restaurant you might know. And they were an ingredient used by a Canadian company to build the first solar power plants in Malawi.
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Apr 06, 2026
Jonathan Marshall has been repairing typewriters for about 10 years. In March, he opened a repair shop and museum in Hamilton. He says his ultimate goal is to help people think more intentionally about the words they write.
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Apr 06, 2026
Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly targeted by Ryan Wedding's alleged criminal network — police are still trying to unlock the victim's phone and identify more suspects. Details of the case are contained in a new police affidavit.
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Apr 05, 2026
Staff members Katie Hourigan and Judie Gibbons tell The National about the moment they made a video recreating the recent KitKat heist at a seniors' residence in Oakville, Ont.
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Apr 05, 2026
April 5, 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump fires off an expletive-laden ultimatum for Iran hours after a daring rescue mission to save an American pilot. The Artemis II crew gears up for a lunar flyby. And, advance polls open for three crucial federal byelections.
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Apr 05, 2026
Yet another round of snowfall hit Calgary Sunday. Dangerous driving conditions led to a significant number of accidents.
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Apr 05, 2026
Some ferry sailings between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island are at risk of cancellation Monday as strong winds are expected along the southern coast and parts of the Island.
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Apr 05, 2026
The S?wx_wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) says the stunt is disrespectful, noting the car is located on a sacred site within the nation's territory.
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Apr 05, 2026
WestJet's new temporary fuel surcharge of $60 on all companion voucher bookings takes effect Wednesday, April 8.
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Apr 05, 2026
Curling is set to enter the great unknown. Debuting Monday, Rock League is just a little different from your typical tournament, from mixed 10-player teams to new rules to a bar that will be positioned in between the sheets on the ice.
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Apr 05, 2026
A video demonstration from Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson is adding fresh fuel to one of the most debated moments of Olympic curling.
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Apr 05, 2026
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston called the recent protests by First Nations over cannabis raids in their communities unacceptable in a statement posted to Facebook Saturday night. The protests blocked several highways throughout the province in reaction to RCMP seizing cannabis products from First Nations dispensaries.
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Apr 05, 2026
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston called the recent protests by First Nations over cannabis raids in their communities unacceptable in a statement posted to Facebook Saturday night. The protests blocked several highways throughout the province in reaction to RCMP seizing cannabis products from First Nations dispensaries.
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Apr 05, 2026
Pope Leo urged global leaders in his Easter message on Sunday to end the conflicts raging across the world and abandon any schemes for power, conquest or domination.
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Apr 05, 2026
The CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.
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Apr 05, 2026
The Rural Municipalities of Alberta organization is advocating for the provincial government to legalize grizzly bear hunting in light of what Cardston County calls increased reports of negative human-bear interactions.
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Apr 05, 2026
When Alex Oberg finally cut into the fruit for a taste, it was a bit sour. 'We maybe could have waited a little bit longer,' he said.
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Apr 05, 2026
For most people, recycling is a chore. But for Himmat Rai, a five-year-old living in Maple Ridge, B.C., he says it's his "favourite thing to do." And to celebrate his passion for recycling, Rai and over a dozen of his classmates celebrated his fifth birthday at the local recycling centre.
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Apr 05, 2026
A University of Waterloo student has launched a platform to help students navigate "aggressive geese" on campus.
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Apr 05, 2026
A House of Commons petition that calls on the federal government to establish an independent review board for military honours, such as the Victoria Cross, now has support from Ontario's provincial government.
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Apr 05, 2026
A London, Ont., optometrist says she's hearing more concerns from patients about difficulty driving in the dark and headlight brightness. Transport Canada is asking drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to share their experiences with vehicle headlight glare through an online survey.
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Apr 05, 2026
The federal government says a ban on the import of rescue dogs into Canada will remain in place until further notice due to rabies concerns. Animal advocacy groups say the restrictions — which were brought in more than three years ago and originally meant to be temporary — are preventing healthy animals from legitimate international rescues from finding homes in Canada.
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Apr 05, 2026
In the 19th century, Italian prince, banker and collector Alessandro Torlonia, gathered 623 ancient Roman sculptures. After being shown at the Louvre in Paris, the Torlonia Collection has touched down in Montreal, where it will remain on view at the Museum of Fine Arts until July 19.
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Apr 05, 2026
On Aug. 19, 2024, 20-year-old Kadin Savikataaq went out for the night and never returned. The truck she'd been driving was discovered submerged in Hudson Bay, but a year and a half later, Kadin is still missing. RCMP say she likely drowned, but her family doesn't agree. They say they'll never stop looking for her.
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Apr 05, 2026
Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. Yes, at some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how people tried to stay young. Right now, plenty of influencers will tell you that injectable peptides are the answer. But the scientists? Not so much.
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Apr 05, 2026
Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. Yes, at some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how people tried to stay young. Right now, plenty of influencers will tell you that injectable peptides are the answer. But the scientists? Not so much.
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Apr 05, 2026
When Yemisi Peters moved from Nigeria to Edmonton, she was unsure how to navigate Canadian workplaces and faced many cultural shocks. Over time, she had to stop hiding who she was and her experience.
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Apr 05, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, after American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines.
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Apr 04, 2026
Taber, Alta., has won this year's Kraft Hockeyville contest, with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., finishing runner-up.
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Apr 04, 2026
Until the bathroom is fixed, mission control has instructed the astronauts to break out urine collection bags. The so-called lunar loo malfunctioned following Wednesday's liftoff and has been hit-and-miss ever since.
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Apr 04, 2026
Canada's Matt Dunstone fell 9-6 to Sweden in Saturday's final of the 2026 World Men's Curling Championship. Canada has not won the men's world title since 2017.
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Apr 04, 2026
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting products including salads, cheese and meal kits.
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Apr 04, 2026
Collien Fernandes says her husband spread pornographic deepfakes of her for around a decade. Multiple experts and online commenters are now calling the actress a "digital Pelicot" after she spoke out about what she has called her "virtual rape," generating protests and a push for change in Germany.
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Apr 04, 2026
Nine people, including an infant, were taken to the hospital after a fire at a London apartment building Saturday morning, according to first responders.
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Apr 04, 2026
The family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre on Saturday urged Britain's King Charles to meet with survivors during his state visit to the United States later this month, saying the trip coincides with the anniversary of her death.
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Apr 04, 2026
Burdett "Burd" Sisler, the oldest known living Canadian — and one of the world's oldest Second World War veterans — has died at 110, his family confirmed on Saturday.
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Apr 04, 2026
Parks Canada staff in its Lake Louise, Yoho, Kootenay field unit will add westslope cutthroat trout to Margaret Lake and other locations this spring.
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Apr 04, 2026
The virtual event featured Hansen speaking live from aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, approximately three days into the 10-day lunar flyby mission.
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Apr 04, 2026
Two people are dead after a shooting in a Brampton elementary schoolyard late Friday, according to Peel police.
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Apr 04, 2026
A Court of King's Bench judge has ordered the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission to take a second look at a complaint it originally dismissed. The complaint concerns a policy requiring employees of a Starbucks kiosk at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon to only speak English or French.
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Apr 04, 2026
If it seems like every year, Easter, and in fact every holiday, gets a little more intense, we're here to tell you that you're correct.
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Apr 04, 2026
As the health authority in Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region pushes for official bilingual status for its southernmost health facilities to improve access for English speakers, residents say bigger accessibility issues stem from a policy change implemented last year that created a barrier to accessing health care in Ontario.
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Apr 04, 2026
An extremely dry winter has made for another challenging harvest of India's famous Darjeeling tea, with the flavour the region is renowned for at risk as quality dips. As climate change makes the weather more erratic in the Himalayan foothills, estate owners are growing ever more worried about the future of their businesses.
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Apr 04, 2026
The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in Toronto to take on the Blue Jays for a three-game series starting Monday night. What's changed since they defeated the Jays to become World Series champs in Toronto last year? Let's find out.
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Apr 04, 2026
An extremely dry winter has made for another challenging harvest of India's famous Darjeeling tea, with the flavour the region is renowned for at risk as quality dips. As climate change makes the weather more erratic in the Himalayan foothills, estate owners are growing ever more worried about the future of their businesses.
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Apr 04, 2026
The ongoing war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are impacting Canadian pocketbooks in ways we might not expect. Experts warn Canadian homeowners facing mortgage renewals that rates are going up, despite the Bank of Canada holding its key interest rate for months.
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Apr 04, 2026
The ongoing war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are impacting Canadian pocketbooks in ways we might not expect. Experts warn Canadian homeowners facing mortgage renewals that rates are going up, despite the Bank of Canada holding its key interest rate for months.
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