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World The Trump administration transferred hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations. Separately, a doctor from Lebanon who has been in the U.S. for much of the past seven years was barred from entering again. Hundreds of VenezuelansContinue Reading

Frustrated with police, Meggie Cywink is determined to find the truth about the death of her sister, Sonya Cywink, even if that means investigating the case herself. WARNING: This story contains details concerning the murders of Indigenous women. It also may affect those who have experienced sexual assault or knowContinue Reading

Canada Monday might be the last St. Patrick’s Day that Mark Carney can truly claim to be Irish, as Canada’s newly sworn-in prime minister moves to renounce both his Irish and U.K. citizenships. Dual, never mind triple, citizenship can make life complicated for a prime minister Geoff Nixon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 15,Continue Reading

Canada Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says.Continue Reading

The Canadian military is training for potential conflicts in the North. Here’s what that looks like in Eeyou Istchee Natalia Weichsel/CBC A swarm of troops dressed in white and wearing snowshoes glide across a frozen valley. Suddenly they stop, form a line, kneel and pull out their rifles. Smoke fillsContinue Reading

Saskatchewan·First Person Marwa Abu Eita had a career as an architect, but while working with her husband’s construction company, came to feel like lost her independence. Making the leap to immigrate to Canada helped her find a new direction and professional fulfilment. In Dubai, I lost my confidence. In Regina,Continue Reading

Canada·CBC Investigates CBC’s visual investigative team tracked 68 flights by the RCMP’s Black Hawk helicopters that were aimed at cracking down on illegal migration. Mounties leased helicopters for $5.3 million amid effort to tighten border Tracking the $5.3M border Black Hawks: Were they worth it? The RCMP leased two BlackContinue Reading

Canada In B.C. and Ontario, there’s been public chatter about doing away with time changes for years. In Saskatchewan, most people have never changed their clocks. Here’s a primer on where each of the provinces and territories stand. Most provinces have mulled ditching twice annual time changes at some point.Continue Reading

Canada A historic deal that calls for three major tobacco companies to pay out billions in compensation to provinces and territories as well as former smokers across Canada has cleared its final legal hurdle in Ontario, bringing a decades-long court saga to a close. 3 major companies to compensate provinces,Continue Reading