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Sudbury·IN DEPTH Last week, mining giant DeBeers announced the closure of its lab-grown diamond business and its renewed commitment to natural diamonds. But northern Ontario’s mining industry isn’t expecting an exploration rush anytime soon. DeBeers renews focus on natural diamonds after closing lab-grown business Aya Dufour · CBC News ·Continue Reading

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Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Siobhan Coady delivered the provincial budget in the House of Assembly in St. John’s on April 9. (Paul Daly/The Canadian Press)The Newfoundland and Labrador government included in this year’s pre-election budget decades worth of revenues from the pending settlement of a lawsuit against tobacco companies,Continue Reading

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Recent reports of privacy breaches involving medical records — including a case in which two health-care workers viewed the records of a woman one of them had been in a relationship with — illustrate vulnerabilities in the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority’s electronic medical record system. The Northwest Territories InformationContinue Reading

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Montreal Scientists are warning that they have found traces of pesticides in the drinking water of municipalities along the Châteauguay River. While the levels found complied with Quebec regulations, the study’s authors recommend authorities make changes. Samples did not exceed Quebec guidelines, but scientists fear cumulative effects of pollutants AnnabelleContinue Reading

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Thunder Bay Michel Beaulieu says Historica Canada’s new Heritage Minute featuring Bora Laskin is “long overdue.” Here’s some insights about the namesake of Thunder Bay, Ont.’s law school, and the contributions he made to Canadian law. Bora Laskin known as first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of CanadaContinue Reading