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The overdose prevention service at the Collins Bay Institution will be the third of its kind in Canada and the first in Ontario. Correctional Service Canada says it will save lives, but a union official says it presents staff with a moral dilemma. Advocate says the program isn’t condoning drug …

Housing Minister Sean Fraser says the government is still considering a wide range of potential moves to help ease the acute housing insecurity Canadians across the country are feeling.  Poilievre calls current situation “fundamentally unjust and wrong,” Housing Minister Sean Fraser is keeping a wide range of options on the …

The last homelessness count in the city found there were approximately 300 people who identified as homeless, of which roughly 100 stay in shelters every night, according to Tony Brushett, the executive director of the Yellowknife Salvation Army.  Residents were told to evacuate the northern Canadian city by Aug. 18. …

Experts say Ontario’s Greenbelt has not only accomplished its original purpose of containing sprawl, but helped offset the effects of climate change. ‘Over the years, it has performed what it was meant to do,’ says veteran farmer. In 45 years of farming beans, wheat and corn on his rolling acreage …

In the nearly two days since a deadly earthquake killed more than 2,000 people in Morocco, Montreal’s Café Amistad has become a gathering place for people seeking answers and support. The city is home to the largest Moroccan diaspora in Canada.  Canada one of multiple countries that offered support, but …

U.S.-based group Sikhs for Justice is mobilizing members of its diaspora to vote in what it describes as a referendum, including one scheduled in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday to create an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called Khalistan.  Here’s what you need to know about the Khalistan vote. U.S.-based …

Scientists warn a slew of insect-transmitted infections are on the rise across North America, fuelled in part by climate change — and even lesser-known conditions spread by mosquitoes and ticks may be under-reported.  Lyme disease, West Nile, and an array of lesser-known infections are on the rise, scientists warn. This …

An interpreter who has been hunted and shot in Afghanistan for helping NATO forces has received notice that he’ll likely be coming to Canada.  The Taliban shot the Afghan national in 2010 for helping the Canadian military. There’s been a big leap forward in a Newfoundland man’s campaign to bring …

Ontario DriveTest exams are supposed to be similar to each other and evaluate the same driving skills, but the percentage of people who pass varies drastically depending on where you take the test, according to new data obtained by CBC Hamilton through a freedom of information request.  Driver test success …

The RCMP has charged a 33-year-old man from Deer Lake with first-degree murder. (CBC) A 33-year-old man from Deer Lake has been charged with first-degree murder a day after the body of a 69-year-old woman from the same community was found in her home. In a news release on Saturday, …