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Naloxone: What to know about the opioid overdose-reversing drug, free across Canada
Naloxone: What to know about the opioid overdose-reversing drug, free across Canada

HALIFAX — Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the...

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More Canadians have been approved to leave Gaza through Rafah crossing with Egypt

More Canadians have been approved to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt. A new document published by Gaza's General Authority for Crossings and Borders shows 165 names under...

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Man arrested in Morocco allegedly behind fake bomb threats in Quebec: police

MONTREAL — Quebec police say authorities in Morocco have arrested a man who was allegedly behind a series of phony bomb threats sent to several institutions across the province. The provincial police...

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Father, 13-year-old son, victims in Richmond, B.C. double homicide, investigators say
Father, 13-year-old son, victims in Richmond, B.C. double homicide, investigators say

RICHMOND, B.C. — British Columbia's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a 13-year-old boy and his father were the victims in a targeted double homicide in the suburban Vancouver city of Richmond.  The...

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Quebec teachers leaning on each other as negotiations to end strike grind on
Quebec teachers leaning on each other as negotiations to end strike grind on

MONTREAL — When her union began a general unlimited strike last month, Gatineau-based teacher Geneviève Savard braced for what she called a "crossing of the desert." The roughly 66,000-member teachers...

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Accused in 'Nation River Lady' murder returns to Canada
Accused in 'Nation River Lady' murder returns to Canada

The individual accused of killing a woman and disposing of her body east of Ottawa in 1975 is back in Canada. On Dec. 1, 2023, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigators with help in Florida by...

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At first-ever health day at UN climate summit, Canadian doctors push for action
At first-ever health day at UN climate summit, Canadian doctors push for action

TORONTO — As global leaders prepare to meet for the first dedicated health day at a UN climate summit, Canadian doctors plan to use the platform to push for a new federal office dedicated to addressing...

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Amid housing crisis, decrepit N.L. jail seen as preferable to living on the street
Amid housing crisis, decrepit N.L. jail seen as preferable to living on the street

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Michael Keough has to pause in the middle of his phone call from Newfoundland and Labrador's largest jail to cough and wipe his eyes — there's black mould on the wall where the phones...

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Thousands of trees will be felled in Vancouver's Stanley Park due to moth infestation
Thousands of trees will be felled in Vancouver's Stanley Park due to moth infestation

VANCOUVER — The quiet of Stanley Park’s forests has been splintered as chainsaws roar in a multi-year project to remove about one quarter of the trees that make up what's considered a Vancouver jewel. On...
Some facts about CSIS, Canada's spy agency, amid claims of sexual assault, harassment
Some facts about CSIS, Canada's spy agency, amid claims of sexual assault, harassment

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it's conducting a workplace assessment of its British Columbia office where a group of officers said they were subjected to sexual assault and harassment....