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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 …

A DNA laboratory in Toronto knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out the real dads — and left a trail of shattered lives around the globe, a CBC News investigation has found.  Testing by Viaguard-Accumetrics seemed to use guesswork over science, …

Health units in northwestern Ontario have released their annual food insecurity reports, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Here’s what experts say about the impact of food insecurity on people’s health — and what patrons of a local food service in Thunder Bay say about the importance of food for both …

A Thornhill, Ont., man solicited at least $3.5 million for an alleged Ponzi scheme while charged with fraud for a prior alleged investment scam, according to lawsuits and records reviewed by CBC Toronto. After the criminal charge was dropped, they allege the man went on to defraud another $6.5 million …

Two men are dead and another is seriously injured after a daytime shooting at a south Edmonton work site. In a news release sent Monday night, police said officers responded to a shooting that occurred in a residential area around noon in the Cavanagh neighbourhood, in the area of Cavanagh …

Alberta has a near-billion-dollar plan to expand irrigation while some southern Alberta farmers are already being told there’s not enough water to go around. So how is that possible?  Canada’s biggest irrigation district says farmers will get half the amount they get in a good year. Alberta irrigators told they’ll …

Despite growing frustrations and prolonged negotiations with the federal government, a consortium of Canada’s largest oilsands companies is optimistic about having a “line of sight” in securing the support from Ottawa to advance its proposed $16.5-billion carbon capture pipeline project.  ‘All the pieces are on the table,’ says oilsands group, …