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Alice Munro, Canadian author who mastered the short story, dead at 92 (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Alice Munro, Canadian author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 92.
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Ontario to suspend driver's licences of convicted auto thieves (Tue, 14 May 2024)

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Shawn Lemon appeals sports gambling suspension, training with Alouettes (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Defensive lineman Shawn Lemon has appealed his sports-gambling suspension and is back with the Montreal Alouettes.
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Advocates want changes to police investigating police gender-based violence accusations (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Observers say solutions include hiring more women, transferring more oversight to an independent agency and reallocating money to community-based services. 
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Frito Lay Canada recalls 2 of its most popular snacks for possible salmonella contamination (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Frito Lay Canada is recalling two of its most popular snacks due to a possible risk of salmonella contamination.
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WATCH | Are you boycotting Loblaw? We asked people across Canada (Tue, 14 May 2024)
CBC News spoke to people in Alberta, B.C., Ontario and New Brunswick about the Loblaw boycott and why they’re participating — or not. Here’s what they had to say.
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Immigrant workers say future in limbo as government ranking system scores soar (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Kanika Maheshwari moved to Brampton from India in 2020 to study business management. Her dream, she says, was to open a jewelry business one day.
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Politicians love to bet on sports — but why? (Tue, 14 May 2024)
As the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers both play for a win on Tuesday night, politicians are also looking for a little bit of success by making friendly, public bets together.
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Where did the ice go? Why big bergs aren’t making it to Newfoundland this year (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Icebergs are smaller and rarer, sea ice is thinner and sparser. There’s a lot more blue than white in the ocean around Newfoundland and Labrador this year. Is it another sign of climate change, or just a bad year for bergs? As the CBC’s Zach Goudie explains, it’s both.
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RBC customer's cheque was cashed twice. He says his bank shouldn't have let it happen (Tue, 14 May 2024)
With the vast majority of paper cheques now deposited via mobile app, a security expert says it’s cheaper for banks to reimburse clients than change the deposit system.
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Some blame outsiders for spread of pro-Palestinian encampments. The idea isn't new, say students and experts (Tue, 14 May 2024)
As pro-Palestinian protests continue to grow across Canadian campuses, CBC News looks at what student organizers and observers have to say about claims that the protests are being funded or influenced by outside forces.
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Crown lays out arguments as Pat King goes to trial on conduct during 2022 convoy protest (Tue, 14 May 2024)
Crown attorneys are arguing a key figure in what became known as the Freedom Convoy is guilty of crimes in part because of his presence and conduct during the weeks-long protests in 2022.
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Watchdog finds Mounties failed to properly investigate Indigenous woman's death — twice (Tue, 14 May 2024)
More than two decades after her body was found at the side of a road, the RCMP has agreed to apologize to an Indigenous woman's family for failing to properly investigate her death.
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Water in N.W.T.'s Great Slave Lake is now so low, some houseboats won't float (Mon, 13 May 2024)
It's another year of extreme low water in many parts of the N.W.T. In Yellowknife, that's become an issue for some who live on houseboats in Yellowknife Bay.
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Driver in deadly highway crash east of Toronto was under court order not to drive (Mon, 13 May 2024)
The driver of a cargo van involved in a deadly wrong-way crash on Highway 401 east of Toronto late last month was under a court order not to be behind the wheel, according to court records.
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