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WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse and experiences at residential schools. The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his handContinue Reading

In the run up to the federal election, many Canadians want to know more about the personal finances of the party leaders vying to be prime minister. But those who search for answers about this topic online will often find only misinformation and unsubstantiated claims promoted by AI chatbots. WelcomeContinue Reading

Canada·First Person Eyasu Yakob was inspired to become a nurse by his father, who worked in the same profession in Ethiopia. He’s committed to putting in the hours but nothing prepared him for the financial burdens of becoming a registered nurse in Canada. With the rising cost of living, it’sContinue Reading

The so-called middle class is the prized demographic for Canada’s politicians, pandered to at every opportunity in election campaigns, as the voting bloc most Canadians see themselves belonging to. Nearly every major party has pitched some kind of middle-class tax cut or break on the campaign trail, in cuts that would takeContinue Reading

Canada Over the last few months, academics and scientists in the U.S. have been scrambling to keep their footing on swiftly eroding ground, amid massive Donald Trump-ordered funding cuts and new restrictions. But although a weakening of the American scientific community has far-reaching impacts on the global academic landscape, experts sayContinue Reading

Canada Hundreds of protests at Tesla showrooms around the world are expected on Saturday, including multiple demonstrations organized across Canada. Demonstrators decry Tesla CEO’s role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administrationThe Canadian Press · Posted: Mar 29, 2025 3:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 29 Demonstrators hold signs protestingContinue Reading

Canada·CBC Investigates Fake ads that purport to show CBC News articles are once more circulating online — with the end goal of convincing Canadians to sign up for sketchy investment schemes. The CBC’s Visual Investigations unit looks into how the ads have changed and what to watch out for. Meta,Continue Reading

Mommy bloggers. Family vloggers. Kid-fluencers. Sharenting. There are any number of cute terms to describe the modern parenting phenomenon of sharing your children’s lives online — and in the case of monetized influencers, making a hefty profit off them. But there’s been a recent backlash to the sharenting trend, sometimes ledContinue Reading

Canada Canadian scholars who receive some of their funding from the U.S. government sources are flagging a troubling new questionnaire they have been receiving. It asks political and ideological questions about their research. Academics asked to confirm that their work doesn’t deal with ‘gender ideology,’ ‘environmental justice’ Canadian researchers haveContinue Reading