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Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room ( www.cbc.ca )

The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit's at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local...

For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight ( www.cbc.ca )

Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military's ranks as the war enters...

For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight ( www.cbc.ca )

Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military's ranks as the war enters...

B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations ( www.cbc.ca )

A B.C. coal mining company in northeastern B.C. has been fined more than $45,000 for repeated violations of the province's environmental protection rules, including the failure to monitor mine waste into fish-bearing water and failure to limit particulate being put into the air....

Repairs to Calgary's water main could take another three to five weeks, city says ( www.cbc.ca )

City officials said at a press conference Friday afternoon that five further locations require repair along a water feeder main that's drastically affected water service in the city. That means repairs could take another three to five weeks....

Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba ( www.cbc.ca )

The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....

Ontario landlords who owe investors $144M 'misappropriated' funds for 'extravagant' expenses: court report ( www.cbc.ca )

As their real estate business was failing, a group of Ontario landlords spent millions of dollars of investors' money on "extravagant" expenses, ranging from renting a luxury vacation home in Hawaii, to footing a $5,000 Miami strip club bill to flying on private jets....

Who are these people? They supposedly worked for a Toronto police board member's companies ( www.cbc.ca )

Until recently, a black-and-white photo of a woman holding her face in her hands was used to depict Mary Ellen Steinam — also known as Ellen Steinam — across social media and on the website of a marketing company founded by Toronto Police Service Board member Nadine Spencer....

Cubs of rare white grizzly bear killed in highway collision in Yoho National Park ( www.cbc.ca )

The deaths of two bear cubs of a well-known rare white grizzly — known as Bear 178, but nicknamed Nakoda by locals — in Yoho National Park this week has reignited calls for increased awareness and highway safety for those visiting the mountains....

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