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Phoenix Coyotes' Daniel Carcillo, bottom, reacts after hitting his head on the ice as Vancouver Canucks' Rob Davison lands on top of him after fighting during first period NHL action in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday January 15, 2009.

Will ex-NHLers take the league’s money and go away?

The league has offered a settlement to 318 former players who were part of a dismissed class action suit that alleged it failed to disclose

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January 25, 2019
In this Feb. 10, 2011 photo, traffic moves across the Seaway International Bridge that spans across the St. Lawrence River linking Massena, N.Y., and Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Depictions of the northern border as out of control may not be quite accurate because assessment tools used are outdated, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol Michael Fisher told a House panel Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011.

The Toughest Border Crossing in Canada

Not all Canada-US border checkpoints are created equal. Some are expansive ports of entry, designed to process tens of thousands of crossings each day. Those

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January 24, 2019
Tents sit below the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto on Wednesday January 16, 2019.

Inside a homeless camp in a deep freeze

Every Canadian winter is life and death for those without a place to stay. In Toronto, where a housing crisis has all but eliminated affordable

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January 23, 2019
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is escorted by her private security detail while arriving at a parole office, in Vancouver, on Wednesday December 12, 2018. American authorities are facing a key deadline at the end of the month to formally request the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States.

Canada vs. China, explained. And what happens next.

If the diplomatic back and forth between one of the world’s true super powers and, well, us has left you wondering what the hell is

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January 22, 2019

What can we learn from the oldest of the old?

More people are living longer than ever before. And with longer lives come more complications—loss, loneliness, illness and other things we associate with our own

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January 18, 2019
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer makes his way to speak to media on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018

Canada’s Divide, Part II: What’s wrong with the Right?

Decades from now, historians may recall a time when there was such a thing as a “moderate conservative”. These folks believed in low taxes, and fiscal

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January 17, 2019
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau (behind) gesture during their visit to the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines in Amritsar, India, 21 February 2018. Prime Minister Trudeau is in India for a seven-day state visit to strengthen the bilateral ties between the two nations.

Canada’s Divide, Part I: What’s wrong with the Left?

What if you’re a Liberal, and Justin Trudeau’s insinuations about construction workers makes you feel ridiculous? What if you’re Conservative but you can’t stand the

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January 16, 2019
A STORM TO REMEMBER - A Canadian Forces Bison drives up Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, ON January 15, 1999. The Canadian Armed Forces were called in by Mayor Mel Lastman to aid Torontonians caught in the worst snow storm to hit the megacity. The city struggled under a record 113 centemetres of snowfall in the first half of January, 1999 (the average for the entire month is usually 35.5 cm).

Twenty years of laughing at Toronto

This week marks the 20th anniversary of an iconic Canadian moment—that time when the mayor of Toronto called on the army to come help dig

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January 15, 2019
This Feb 3, 2013 image provided by NASA shows a self portrait of the Mars rover, Curiosity. NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that may have teemed with microbes for tens of millions of years, far longer than scientists had imagined, new research suggests.

Canada’s reaching for the stars. Literally.

It’s called a repeating fast radio burst. And we don’t yet know what it means. It could be anything from aliens (really) to a highly

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January 14, 2019
Hand taking photo of top view shot breakfast table with mobile phone. Poached egg with bread, sliced orange and avocado are on plates. Coffee mugs, cheese plate and salad with avocado, tomatoes and arugula are on the table with a grey tea towel. Hand slicing egg on the plate.

We’re changing the way we eat  

You might never go vegan. You might even laugh at the thought. But even if you still savour a rare steak, the numbers show that

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