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  • BusinessCBC

    AGO workers ratify new deal with employer, union local says

    Unionized workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario have voted to ratify a new agreement with their employer after a strike that closed the gallery in Toronto for a month.In a news release on Friday, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 535, said 281 members out of over 400 voted 85 per cent yes on Friday to accept the tentative agreement reached with the AGO on April 25.The local represents archivists, assistant curators, art handlers, food and beverages staff, retail and custod

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  • NewsCBC

    Social media harms girls’ mental health, report warns

    Spending too much time on social media erodes girls’ mental health with negative impacts on learning, warns a new UNESCO report that also found girls are more susceptible than boys to negative feelings about appearance and body image.

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    Aid groups plead for global assistance as Sudan’s civil war passes 1-year mark

    After more than a year of brutal civil war in Sudan that has reduced cities to rubble and displaced millions, humanitarian groups warn the world is forgetting about the conflict just as international help is most needed.

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    Canada’s military mission training foreign troops bound for Haiti | Exclusive

    CBC News gets exclusive access to the Canadian military’s training program in Jamaica, where foreign troops are being prepped for deployment to Haiti, which is reeling from political chaos and gang violence.

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    Air Canada apologizes to AFN national chief for trying to take headdress

    Canada’s largest airline has apologized to Assembly of First Nations national chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak after flight crew tried to remove her headdress from the cabin during a recent flight.

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    B.C. recriminalizes drug use in public spaces

    British Columbia Premier David Eby has announced that drug use in public spaces will be recriminalized over public safety concerns following a wave of troubling accounts of street drugs being taken in hospitals, parks and transit stops.

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  • EntertainmentYahoo News Canada

    'Breathe': Milla Jovovich, Jennifer Hudson and Quvenzhané Wallis tap into climate change fears in post-apocalyptic film

    In Breathe, Jennifer Hudson, Quvenzhané Wallis and Milla Jovovich are in the year 2039, when the earth is left with an uninhabitable level of oxygen.

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