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Man, 59, dead after house fire in Montreal's east end
Police are investigating a fire in Montreal's Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve that left a 59-year-old man dead Wednesday evening. The fire broke out at a house on Saint-Donat Street in the Tétreaultville neighbourhood around 6:30 p.m., police say.Firefighters were able to contain the flames, but police say when they entered the home, they found the man unconscious on the floor. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The case was transferred to investigators with Montreal's ars
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Meteorologist explains why stormy prediction flopped — a 'perfect storm of not being a perfect storm'
Much less snow fell Wednesday in St. John's than Environment Canada had forecast. (John Gushue/CBC)On Wednesday, people across the Avalon Peninsula braced for heaps of snow to fall — and then the storm didn't happen. Meteorologist Robert Grove explains why there wasn't a dumping of the white stuff like expected and it comes down to a lack of information.While people woke up to the sounds of snow plows and having to scrape ice off their vehicle windshields, it wasn't nearly nearly the snowfall am
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Netflix: What’s leaving, what’s new to watch in Canada in December
Some Christmas movies are being removed from Netflix in December, plus Mean Girls and Step Brothers, while Leave The World Behind is released on the site.
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Higgs PCs face more internal division over party's direction
New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative party is facing more internal division over its socially conservative message ahead of next year's provincial election.Internal emails obtained by CBC News include criticism of Premier Blaine Higgs, the party and its newly hired campaign manager over the direction they're taking.Hampton Deputy Mayor Jeremy Salgado pulled out of the race for the Hampton-Fundy-St. Martin's nomination Tuesday and quit the PC party, saying he feels "a disconnect between my pr
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'Chaos and uncertainty' at North Rustico rink slashes into business's enrolment and revenues
One of the owners of a private hockey school in North Rustico says the "chaos and uncertainty" surrounding the town's new rink has resulted in a significant drop in enrolment that cut the school's revenue in half this year. Darren MacDougall is one of the shareholders and a director of Mount Academy, a private hockey school based inside the Eliyahu Wellness Centre at Canada Games Place in North Rustico. He said many parents couldn't distinguish between the rink and the school when they heard abo
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What should Doug Ford's government do about developers who go years without building homes?
At least 20 Ontario municipalities are so far away from reaching their provincially-mandated targets for new home construction starts that they have virtually no chance of hitting the mark, and will face stiff financial consequences in 2024. The problem is something municipal politicians say puts Ontario at risk of failing to meet the goal of 1.5 million new homes in a decade unless the provincial government does more to prod hesitant developers into starting construction.Under current rules set
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N.B.'s English school system down to 6 psychologists serving 73,000 students
A commitment made last June by Premier Blaine Higgs to provide "extra counsellors, extra support" to enhance the care and safety of vulnerable students in schools appears to be falling short.A dwindling pool of school psychologists in New Brunswick has continued to shrink since the commitment was made and the Department of Education can't say if other professionals like school social workers or guidance counsellors have been added to provide the promised support. "School districts would have mor
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