'These are my people': Seven years after fleeing war, refugee family reflects on life in Nova Scotia (www.cbc.ca)
The Hassan Haggar family moved to a small N.S. town in 2016
RCMP cited Standing Rock protests as 'evidence' to create controversial B.C. unit | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
RCMP used the anti-pipeline resistance at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 to justify creating a unit in British Columbia to police similar opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, newly released documents show.
Why do wildfires often ignite a firestorm of conspiracy theories? (www.cbc.ca)
Seeing Robbie Robertson through the lens of his film scores (www.cbc.ca)
Robbie Robertson never intended to get into the film industry, but the music he made was always cinematic in its own way. In a 2019 interview with Vulture, the songwriting force behind the Band explained his music-making process in a way that blurs the line between musician and filmmaker: “When it connects in my imagination...
5 baby emus get out of a Honda Fit ... (www.cbc.ca)
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And that's a wrap: Edmonton restaurant chain wins auction for government donair costume (www.cbc.ca)
According to the provincial government website, there were more than 1,700 bids for the suit
don't let canada's nazism distract you from british columbia's nazism (www.cbc.ca)
Who is the real Buffy Sainte-Marie? (www.cbc.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/8084803...
World swimming federation confirms U.S. federal probe into Chinese athletes' doping tests (www.cbc.ca)
The international swimming federation says its executive director has been ordered to testify as a witness in a U.S. criminal investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance in 2021 yet could continue competing....
Giant sinkhole swallows part of Illinois soccer field where children often play (www.cbc.ca)
A giant sinkhole has swallowed the centre of a soccer complex that was built over an operating limestone mine in southern Illinois, taking down a large light pole and leaving a gaping chasm where squads of kids often play....
Canadian military planning for evacuation of 20,000 from Lebanon, says top commander (www.cbc.ca)
How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers (www.cbc.ca)
South Asian newcomers to Canada say online hate is taking a toll (www.cbc.ca)
South Asian newcomers to Canada say online hate is taking a toll (www.cbc.ca)
Megaconstellations of satellites are burning up in our atmosphere. That could have consequences (www.cbc.ca)
There are an estimated 11,500 tonnes of space objects orbiting Earth, which would include even the smallest pieces around one millimetre in size (likely satellite collisions). But there are far larger objects in space, including spent rocket stages and upwards of 9,000 functioning satellites. More than half of them are SpaceX...
This inmate says rat gave birth in his pants- but no suprise (www.cbc.ca)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there.
Stellantis recalls nearly 1.2M vehicles to fix software glitch that disables rear camera (www.cbc.ca)
Stellantis is recalling nearly 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada to fix a software glitch that can disable the rear view cameras....
This HMP inmate says a rat gave birth in his pants — but it was no surprise (www.cbc.ca)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there....
Exploring the mystery of the man embroiled in a Canadian mining company's billion-dollar gold scam (www.cbc.ca)
Anyone remember BreX? Sure happy I didn’t invest, although yours truly had considered it at the time.
For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military’s ranks as the war enters...
Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba (www.cbc.ca)
The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....
Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Paris' Seine River under 2 months before Olympics (www.cbc.ca)
Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday....
SpaceX retrieves space junk from Saskatchewan farmer (www.cbc.ca)
Inside the brain school (www.cbc.ca)
All of it was the brainchild of 79-year-old American psychologist Dr. James Hardt, whose neurofeedback program has been endorsed by self-help guru Tony Robbins and featured on CNN’s Larry King Live. Hardt says brain school can make participants smarter and happier. He says it can also allow them to levitate, walk on water and...