Day: June 4, 2022

One high school girl’s dream grew into the first all-female cricket team in Manitoba, thanks to a group of like-minded teenagers from Brandon. Mahee Patel grew up playing the sport with her family and decided to try and recruit girls at the Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School where she’s a student.  Patel says she was pleasantly surprised by the […]

Milk prices in Canada could be going up for the second time in a year following a rare request by Dairy Farmers of Canada for a mid-year price hike due to inflation. The industry lobby group says Canadian dairy farmers are grappling with never-before-seen price increases on goods and services they need to produce milk. […]

After decades of study on homicides resulting from domestic violence in Ontario, and after hundreds of recommendations to stop them have been filed, the people taking part in next week’s inquest into the murders of three women around Renfrew County in 2015 remain optimistic that this time, the change they’re looking for will come. In […]

There he was, a re-elected and relaxed-looking Premier Doug Ford on the morning after his win in Ontario. He parried media questions about future cabinet-making, proportional representation and more, his every pivot back to his own talking points punctuated by applause from the assembled Progressive Conservatives somewhere off-camera. Flashing those pearlies, lightly joshing with reporters. […]

As Saint Mary’s University fought a costly and public legal battle to play in a 2017 football game, the Halifax university hired a high-profile public relations company to get advice on how the institution could improve its public image. The dispute over a player’s eligibility played out in courts in Nova Scotia and Ontario, and included a […]

This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, CBC Health’s weekly health and medical science newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Canada’s toxic drug supply problem can’t be fixed by decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of drugs alone — a move that advocates say is a step in the right direction […]