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  • BusinessCBC

    Province seeks Meta's support during emergencies

    The province says it's working with Meta, the company that owns the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, to ensure important information is distributed to its users during times of emergency, such as wildfires. Last year, the social media giant announced it was ending news availability on its platforms in Canada, after the federal government passed the Online News Act, or Bill C-18, requiring big tech companies to pay media outlets for news content that is shared on their platforms.Tha

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  • HealthThe Weather Network

    TICK SEASON: How to protect your pets

    Expert advice on how to keep your pets safe from tick bites

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  • NewsCBC

    New Glasgow tenants left without running water for days after landlord failed to pay bills

    Tenants of seven buildings in New Glasgow, N.S., were left without running water for four days because their landlord hadn't paid his water bills in years.CBC News spoke to five tenants of landlord Jonathan Wright. Some said they had spent hours lugging jugs of water into their homes to flush their toilets. Others said they had been forced to stay in shelters or hotels with their small children."This water being cut off is the final straw. But you get to a point where you live in fear — you comp

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  • HealthCBC

    She lived through the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Now she researches health of other survivors' kids

    Warning: This story contains distressing details and discussions of sexual violence.Glorieuse Uwizeye believes it was a miracle that she and her family survived the 100-day genocide in 1994 against the Tutsis, a minority group in Rwanda. Thirty years later, Uwizeye is an associate professor in nursing at Western University in London, Ont., and studies the physical and mental health outcomes of survivors' children born during and shortly after the genocide."It makes me feel like I'm fulfilling my

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  • NewsCBC

    Poilievre fundraisers attracting business executives, lobbyists

    As Pierre Poilievre presents himself as both a prime minister in waiting and a champion of "the working-class people," he's headlined roughly 50 fundraisers at private venues since becoming Conservative leader in 2022 — some of them in Canada's wealthiest neighbourhoods and most exclusive clubs.A CBC News analysis of fundraising reports the Conservatives submitted to Elections Canada show these fundraisers have attracted dozens of registered federal lobbyists who paid up to $1,725 each to attend

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    Gatineau reveals 2nd plan for new police HQ

    Following months of deliberations that included rejecting an earlier proposal, Gatineau, Que., city council has voted to build a new police headquarters further north by the end of 2026.In early 2023 councillors turned down a plan favoured by the city's administration to build the headquarters on a parking lot next to the Robert-Guertin Centre.That site is next to an emergency shelter and a supervised injection site, which created concerns that people who use those services would avoid the area

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    Court quashes federal decision to allocate fishing licences in Nunavut to non-Inuit

    Canada's federal court has struck down a decision by Ottawa to hand over a sizeable portion of fishing licences off Nunavut's coast to non-Inuit operations, saying that decision was unreasonable.Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA), who filed the lawsuit, have hailed this as a "significant victory." In a ruling handed down on April 26, Federal Court Justice Paul Favel said a 2021 decision by then-Fisheries and Oceans minister Bernadette Jordan to reissue fishing

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