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10 Killed, 15 Wounded in Canada Stabbing Rampage
A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched for two suspects. The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said. Rhonda Blackmore, the assistant commissioner of the RCMP Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random, the AP reports.
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Canada defeats U.S. to capture gold at women's hockey worlds | CBC Sports
Canada successfully defended its women's hockey world title with a 2-1 win over the rival United States in the gold-medal game on Sunday in Herning, Denmark
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‘Not My Choice.’ A TV Anchor Is Ousted, and Viewers Ask: Was Sexism to Blame?
The chief executive of a Canadian news network pushed back against allegations that sex, age or gray hair were factors in the abrupt dismissal of the veteran journalist, Lisa LaFlamme.
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B.C. man who did major renovation to property ordered to undo the job
Repeated and deliberate bylaw violations at a Surrey home led to a stern rebuke from a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
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Canada has a quarter of world's soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News
Canada stores about a quarter of all the soil carbon in the world, a new study has found, putting a spotlight on the country's role in preventing that carbon from being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.
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P.E.I. school teacher stumbles upon fossil that may be 300 million years old
A P.E.I. school teacher has made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling upon a fossil that could be 300 million years old. Lisa Cormier was taking a stroll in Cape Egmont Monday afternoon when she spotted something unusual partially buried on the shore.
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Canada: Gold diggers discover a mummified and almost intact baby mammoth
The mummified animal was named “Nun cho ga” for “big baby animal”. consistent with the primary examinations, it might be a female who died a minimum of 30,000 years ago. An unusual discovery. On June 21, workers at the Klondike gold deposit in Canada’s Far North discovered the mummified remains of a baby northern mammoth. Finding such a specimen is already a rare thing, but it’s – additionally – here almost complete remains.
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An ‘open, oozing wound:’ why it’s taken decades to clean up waste from a troubled mine in B.C.
From above, the closed Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C. seems small as it sits by the Tulsequah River a few kilometers from the waterway’s confluence with the Taku River. But up close, the site is an “open, oozing wound,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission. “There’s bright orange water running down the hill, running into this huge pond of bright orange water that just overflows into the river.”
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I went to Parliament to save Canadian YouTube (Bill C-11)
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Right-Wing Sources are Spreading Misinformation About a Court Battle Over Canada’s Vaccine Mandates
Original court documents tell a different story than the one contained in a viral blog post from a convoy-friendly National Post columnist.
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More species are at risk than ever in Canada. Who will save them?
The recent addition of the monarch butterfly to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species captured the attention of the media and public across North America. Rightly so. This brightly coloured butterfly is easy to recognize and one of the few endangered species you might find right in your backyard. But the monarch is just the latest to be added to a growing group of wild species found in Canada that are at risk of disappearing forever.
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Canada is taxing luxury cars, yachts, and private jets as celebrities come under scrutiny for their emissions
As stars like Taylor Swift and Drake are being scolded for their private jet usage, Canada revealed new details about how it's hoping to make the wealthy think twice about contributing to the climate crisis with their extravagant modes of transportation. The Select Luxury Items Tax Act — which will go into effect September 1st — will add a 10% tax on the full value of any Canadian purchases of aircraft and cars that exceed $100,000, as well as boats that exceed $250,000. These thresholds are in Canadian dollars and convert to roughly $78,000 and $194,000 respectively in US dollars.
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Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
Canadian coffee giant Tom Hortons is proposing offering impacted customers a free hot drink and baked good as settlement in class action lawsuits filed after the company spied on app users for over a year. The news provides a conclusion to one of the more bizarre location data gathering scandals in recent years.
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Canada Will Impose a New Tax on Private Jets, Yachts and Luxury Cars
The new measure will go into effect on September 1.
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Supreme Court rules sex without a condom requires separate consent from sex with a condom
People who don't wear condoms during sex after being told to by their sexual partners can be convicted of sexual assault, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today. In its unanimous decision, the top court ruled that "stealthing" — the act of pretending to use a condom, or removing one prior to sex without the partner's consent — can violate the legal grounds for consensual sex.
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Pope travels to Canada on 'pilgrimage of penance' for indigenous abuse
Pope Francis is scheduled to land in Canada on Sunday on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the abuse indigenous children endured at hands of largely Catholic-run residential schools.
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An Entire Canadian Town Is Being Extorted By Ransomware Cyber Criminals
The Canadian town of St. Marys had its data stolen and held hostage by a ransomware gang.
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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.
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While Canadians look at European heat wave in awe, we face our own climate challenges
Records are breaking across Europe, and Canadians may think they've gotten off lucky this summer, particularly in light of the record-breaking heat wave in British Columbia last June. But while we've had fewer heat waves this year compared to recent summers, it may just be a case of a late start.
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Meet the First Indigenous Woman to Close a Series A. Her Startup Is Worth $40 Million
Bobbie Racette was once the hesitant face of Virtual Gurus, the Canadian tech company she started, but she has since embraced her identity.
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