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Raptors coach Nick Nurse will miss Friday's game due to COVID-19 protocols
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Raptors coach Nick Nurse will miss Friday's game due to COVID-19 protocols

Sports/Basketball/NBA: Head coach Nick Nurse and five other members of the coaching staff, will not be part of Friday night’s game against the Houston Rockets, because of health and safety protocols, the team announced.
Alberta judge rejects injunction to maintain last-resort opioid treatment program
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Alberta judge rejects injunction to maintain last-resort opioid treatment program

News/Canada/Edmonton: An emergency court injunction that would have maintained a last-resort treatment for Albertans suffering from the most severe forms of opioid addiction has been rejected. 
Canadian Medical Association elects first Indigenous president
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Canadian Medical Association elects first Indigenous president

News/Politics: The Canadian Medical Association has elected its first Indigenous president — a milestone that arrives as the health care sector grapples with its own racism problems.
WestJet to lay off undisclosed number of pilots amid labour negotiations
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WestJet to lay off undisclosed number of pilots amid labour negotiations

News/Canada/Calgary: WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it is laying off an undisclosed number of pilots amid negotiations with the union that represents them.
Ontario alerts healthcare workers about counterfeit N95 respirators that slipped detection
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Ontario alerts healthcare workers about counterfeit N95 respirators that slipped detection

News/Canada/Toronto: Ontario’s health ministry said Friday a number of counterfeit N95 respirators were sent to health care providers and that it's now investigating how they products wound up in the provincial stockpile.
Canada Pension Plan chief resigns after getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dubai
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Canada Pension Plan chief resigns after getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dubai

News/Business: The chief executive of the fund that manages Canada Pension Plan investments has resigned after it was revealed that he decided to travel to the United Arab Emirates, where he arranged to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Health Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine
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Health Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine

News/Politics: Health Canada has approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, which is expected to arrive in Canada in the second and third quarters of this year.
There's a mad rush for summer campsites in Ontario Parks right now
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There's a mad rush for summer campsites in Ontario Parks right now

News/Canada/London: It seems people are sick of being hunkered down at home in pandemic lockdowns and are yearning for a summer getaway, snapping up campsites at Ontario Parks in record numbers.
Ontario man fined $3.8K at land border crossing amid confusion over who's 'essential'
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Ontario man fined $3.8K at land border crossing amid confusion over who's 'essential'

News/Canada/Windsor: An Ontario man who says he normally has no problem crossing the Windsor-Detroit border for work was surprised to learn this week he's subject to new rules — because, he was told, he doesn't cross every day.
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford ready to 'get back at it' in 1,500m at Texas Qualifier
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Gabriela DeBues-Stafford ready to 'get back at it' in 1,500m at Texas Qualifier

Sports/Olympics/Summer Sports/Track and Field: Gabriela DeBues-Stafford headlines a group of seven Canadians at the Texas Qualifier on Saturday night, running her first outdoor 1,500-metre race since lowering her national record 16 months ago at the 2019 world championships.
Assault victims lash out at plea deal for Ottawa police officer
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Assault victims lash out at plea deal for Ottawa police officer

News/Canada/Ottawa: Two women who were assaulted by Ottawa police Const. Eric Post say a plea deal brokered by the Crown diminishes the violence and fear the officer inflicted upon them. Post initially faced 32 charges related to alleged violence against seven women. In January, he pleaded guilty to five offences and 27 charges were dropped.
Family seeks return of Cindy Gladue's remains from Alberta medical examiner's office
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Family seeks return of Cindy Gladue's remains from Alberta medical examiner's office

News/Indigenous: The family of Cindy Gladue, a 36 year-old Cree-Metis woman whose killer was found guilty of manslaughter last week, wants Alberta’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to return her remains so they can lay her to rest.
Site C dam budget nearly doubles to $16B, but B.C. NDP forging on with megaproject
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Site C dam budget nearly doubles to $16B, but B.C. NDP forging on with megaproject

News/Canada/British Columbia: B.C. Premier John Horgan and Energy Minister Bruce Ralston say the megadam will move forward despite the elevated costs.
B.C.'s top doctor 'taken aback' by criticism of her comments on police reform
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B.C.'s top doctor 'taken aback' by criticism of her comments on police reform

News/Canada/British Columbia: “There was absolutely no criticism at all of anything that front-line police officers are doing and the misinterpretation of that is something I regret,”  Dr. Henry told reporters.
B.C. babysitter's conviction in death of child may have been miscarriage of justice, review finds
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B.C. babysitter's conviction in death of child may have been miscarriage of justice, review finds

News/Canada/British Columbia: A B.C.’s babysitter’s conviction in the 2011 death of a toddler may have been the result of a miscarriage of justice, according to a special prosecutor appointed by the province.
Body of newborn baby found in basement, man and woman charged, police say
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Body of newborn baby found in basement, man and woman charged, police say

News/Canada/Hamilton: Hamilton police have charged a 34-year-old man and 24-year-old woman after finding the body of a newborn baby buried in the basement of a home in the central lower city.
Parents of missing N.S. toddler take fight against cyberbullying to court
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Parents of missing N.S. toddler take fight against cyberbullying to court

News/Canada/Nova Scotia: The parents of a toddler who went missing last May in Truro, N.S., are heading to court next week to fight back against the deluge of harassment and vitriol they’ve received since the little boy vanished.
Feds get another month to reform assisted-dying law as bill stalls in the Commons
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Feds get another month to reform assisted-dying law as bill stalls in the Commons

News/Politics: The federal government was granted one more month today to expand access to medical assistance in dying even as its efforts to do so stalled in the House of Commons.
Federal Conservatives call for suspension of hotel quarantine policy following reports of sexual assault
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Federal Conservatives call for suspension of hotel quarantine policy following reports of sexual assault

News/Politics: Some Conservative MPs are asking the federal government to suspend the mandatory hotel quarantine policy in the wake of two reports of sexual violence.
Inside the ER in Laval, Que., one of the worst hit cities in Canada
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Inside the ER in Laval, Que., one of the worst hit cities in Canada

News/Canada/Montreal: For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Laval's Cité-de-la-Santé hospital gave CBC News exclusive access inside the ER to see how it works and the precautions it has put in place to keep everyone safe.