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Mounties and B.C.’s police watchdog are investigating after two people were found dead and a third was seriously injured by officers in a remote B.C. community on Tuesday. It happened at Tsay Keh Dene, a remote community about 360 kilometres north of Prince George and 260 kilometres west of Fort …

Toronto police are searching for two suspects who allegedly defrauded an elderly couple out of $13,000 by impersonating a police officer. In a news release, police say an elderly couple received a phone call in January from someone claiming to be a police officer. The release says the victims were …

First phase of finding have been released from the ʔahʔiiḥčp ʔukʷił ʔiqḥmuut (Honouring Our Ancient Ones) Residential School Research Project.  Likely and potential unmarked grave locations found at schools. WARNING: This story contains distressing details ʕaaḥuusʔath (Ahousaht) First Nation released the findings from the first phase of its search for …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a handful of cabinet ministers will take questions about what they were told, and how they responded, to allegations of foreign election interference during the past two federal elections. Inquiry will hear from Defence Minister Bill Blair and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, among others. …

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.  Nobel prize-winning scientist helped solve one of universe’s fundamental riddles dead at 94. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the …

Premier Doug Ford’s government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario’s plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs, CBC News has learned. Corporate groups lobby Doug Ford government for reforms they say would cut blue box costs by $100M. Premier Doug Ford’s government …

Jesse Stewart, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan, said we need to look at the origins of the name to unpack the varying pronunciations.  CBC podcast looks at local language pronunciations. In Saskatchewan, most people say the name of Alberta’s most populous city in two chunks: …

Last week 84 residents of the Hadgraft Wilson Place building were ordered by Kelowna’s fire chief to leave their homes due to safety risks in their building. Evacuation order for 84 low-income tenants extended due to risks from UBC development project. Displaced residents of a subsidized housing complex in Kelowna, …

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Kyle Tsui, who is currently in a U.S. jail awaiting sentencing for running a fraudulent allergy testing company, also worked in a Canadian DNA laboratory that a CBC News investigation found has a history of producing wrong paternity results. Kyle Tsui represented Viaguard on TV to discuss former PM’s suspected …