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The London Fire Department is blaming a small fire in a Western University dorm room on careless smoking of marijuana — barely two days after the federal government legalized recreational marijuana. Firefighters were called to the O’Neil/Ridley Hall at Huron University College on the Western University campus early Friday morning …

Some foreign-trained dentists on the cusp of becoming certified to practise in Canada say they’ve been thrust into limbo — and in many cases, deep into debt — after the profession’s Ottawa-based examination board determined their credentials from an Indian university no longer pass muster. In July, the National Dental …

Toronto police have created the service’s first-ever dedicated missing persons unit in the wake of the Bruce McArthur investigation and public scrutiny around how the cases of his alleged victims were handled. Covert police search of Bruce McArthur’s home cut short when he unexpectedly returned home: court records Jean-Guy Cloutier …

All five of Canada’s major Inuit organizations have pulled out of the federal government’s Indigenous Working Group on food security, saying the government is not listening to them in its review of the Nutrition North program, CBC News has learned. The organizations — Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the …

The first Inuk to play in the National Hockey League is retiring. Jordin Tootoo, 35, made the announcement Friday afternoon in Brandon, Man., where he began his hockey career playing for the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League in 1999. “This community has embraced me and looked beyond …

The push is on for Parliament to quickly ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement so that Canada can reap the benefits that come from being an early adopter of the deal — and there’s a race on now to beat other countries to the punch. The …

Once, while landing a plane in Calgary, Rosella Bjornson radioed the tower and was mistaken for a misbehaving stewardess. The year was 1974 and Bjornson was the only woman in North America working as a commercial pilot. “We were landing at the Calgary Airport, and of course I was using …

New Brunswick could be lurching toward a new minority government or a new election after all four political parties said that none of their members would be on the ballot to become Speaker of the legislature. All eligible MLAs withdrew or said they were withdrawing their names on Thursday by …

Nalcor Energy is breaking ties with the financially-troubled main contractor at the Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject, after weeks of fiscal and legal conflict between the two companies. Nalcor has directed the Canadian subsidiary of Italian construction firm Astaldi to stop working on the site, and is arranging for Astaldi’s 500 …

This story is based on a report by Anne Panasuk of the investigative program, Enquête. Watch Enquête’s full report here, in French. “He’d let us drive. He knew how to do everything. We were impressed to see a priest act that way,” recalls Jason Petiquay. Petiquay was 11 when he …