Losing control: How Manitoba's public guardian system leaves people feeling trapped, stripped of their rights and helpless (www.cbc.ca)
When George Kinsman left a Winnipeg hospital in 2022, he had no idea he was walking out a man who had lost his legal right to make his own decisions....
Who are these people? They supposedly worked for a Toronto police board member's companies (www.cbc.ca)
Until recently, a black-and-white photo of a woman holding her face in her hands was used to depict Mary Ellen Steinam — also known as Ellen Steinam — across social media and on the website of a marketing company founded by Toronto Police Service Board member Nadine Spencer....
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship found off Labrador's south coast, says expedition (www.cbc.ca)
Ontario plastics plant facing government orders to reduce toxic emissions will shut down permanently (www.cbc.ca)
A plastics plant in southwestern Ontario that was ordered by the province and federal government to reduce emissions of the cancer-causing chemical benzene now says it will permanently close by June 2026....
Poilievre says Tories will vote against capital gains tax hike, calls it a 'job killer' (www.cbc.ca)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday his party will oppose the government’s proposed capital gains inclusion rate increase — a tax hike that is projected to pull in roughly $19 billion in new revenue....
Minister broke law over emergency order for spotted owl: judge (www.cbc.ca)
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault broke the law when he waited eight months to recommend an emergency order protecting British Columbia’s endangered spotted owls, a federal court judge has ruled....
Can a diet that's good for the planet reduce your risk of dying from disease? (www.cbc.ca)
Shannon Phillips targeted climate and parks action. Then she got targeted. The NDPer is now leaving office (www.cbc.ca)
Cubs of rare white grizzly bear killed in highway collision in Yoho National Park (www.cbc.ca)
The deaths of two bear cubs of a well-known rare white grizzly — known as Bear 178, but nicknamed Nakoda by locals — in Yoho National Park this week has reignited calls for increased awareness and highway safety for those visiting the mountains....
Canadians who have lost their sense of smell say it's misunderstood, undervalued — and deserves more attention (www.cbc.ca)
For millennia, the sense of smell has been widely undervalued — ranked far below vision by the likes of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. In 2021, a survey in the journal Brain Sciences found that people consistently ranked smell below vision and hearing — and even below commercial products. One quarter of college students...
'Several' injured after seaplane goes down in Vancouver: police (www.cbc.ca)
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Quebec residents against graphite mine fear powering Pentagon, environmental ruin (www.cbc.ca)
In Quebec’s Laurentians region, a few kilometres from a wildlife reserve and just outside the town of Duhamel, lies a source of one of the world’s most sought after minerals for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries: graphite....
'Give us $600 and also we hate you': WestJet's new UltraBasic fare gets roasted online (www.cbc.ca)
If there’s anything people can agree on these days, it’s that flying sucks....
Canadian businessman Frank Stronach charged in sex assault probe | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Stronach was arrested Friday and charged with 5 criminal offences, police say
'We are at risk of running out': Calgarians asked to use 25% less water than yesterday (www.cbc.ca)
After a major feeder water main break plunged Calgary’s water supply into a critical state, city officials are now asking Calgarians to use 25 per cent less than they did yesterday, sounding the alarm that the city is at risk of running out....
Britain's Rishi Sunak apologizes for leaving D-Day event early to return to campaigning (www.cbc.ca)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party....
Ontario underspending on social services by $3.7B: watchdog (www.cbc.ca)
Bear crashes 9-year-old's sleepover, trashes Rossland, B.C., home (www.cbc.ca)
A B.C. mother is recounting the harrowing story of hiding from a bear that invaded her home in Rossland, B.C., about 380 kilometres east of Vancouver, while she and her 9-year-old daughter were hosting a friend for a sleepover....
Lawyer whose firm sued ex-clients for more than $1 million faces discipline (www.cbc.ca)
A high-profile Canadian employment lawyer is to be disciplined this morning over his hardball tactics against some of his firm’s dissatisfied clients, after two of them posted critical reviews online and a third refused to pay her bill....
China, India interfered in Conservative leadership races, report says (www.cbc.ca)
A report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) says there were two instance of alleged interference by China in Conservative Party of Canada leadership races....