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KweliTV Streams Content For the Global Black Community, Filling a Gap in the Industry
The founder of the streaming platform, DeShuna Elisa Spencer, created KweliTV after realizing that there was barely any content she could relate to on other channels. KweliTV now has 30,000 paying subscribers and is home to independent...
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Facebook's Co-Founder on How to End Poverty in the U.S.
Chris Hughes, author of "Fair Shot" and co-founder of Facebook, has a radical idea to change the economy and "end poverty once and for all." It involves a guaranteed income for people earning less than $50,000.
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Canadian food prices to rise
Dalhousie University's Food Price Report says the cost of food is rising faster than what Statistics Canada's food inflation report indicates
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Toronto prepares for fentanyl overdoses
Toronto's top officials are making an action plan, preparing to respond to an expected sharp rise in fentanyl overdoses and deaths
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Canadians' debt-to-income ratio rises to 163.7%
Statistics Canada says Canadians owed $1.89 trillion at the end of September
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Saskatoon officials talk plan to combat violent crime
Mayor Charlie Clark said an "all hands on deck" news conference with the new police chief and acting fire chief Monday was held to assure residents that efforts are underway to help vulnerable people and improve public safety.
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'We are not on a path to remove anything from the English-speaking community': Roberge
Quebec's French language minister announced a $603M plan to help French remain vital in the province and reverse its 'decline.' Jean-François Roberge says the government is committed to helping the English-speaking community learn French...
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Moms Stop the Harm co-founder says safe supply has become harder to promote
Leslie McBain, a co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm, says it is harder now -- eight years into B.C.'s toxic drug crisis -- to promote the safe supply of drugs because of opposition from conservative politicians.
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Violence against journalists on the rise, 'atmosphere of impunity
United Nations statistics reveal at least 74 journalists across the globe were killed in 2022.
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1 in 5 working Canadians now nearing retirement: census
Canada's working-age population is older than ever, with more than one in five working adults now nearing retirement, according to new census figures. Canada now has a larger proportion of people aged 55 to 64 than it does of those...
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Hate crimes up 80% from 2019-2020: StatsCan
Data from the federal government shows police-reported hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity spiked sharply across the country during the first year of the pandemic.
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Prairie drought drives Canada's canola, wheat production down more than 35%: StatsCan
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says 99 per cent of Prairie agricultural land is 'abnormally dry,' leading to the worst year-over-year decline in crop production ever recorded.
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Canada's inflation rate jumps to 4.4%, highest since 2003
Canada's inflation rate rose to a new 18-year high of 4.4 per cent in September, with higher prices for transportation, shelter and food contributing the most to the jump in the cost of living.
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Hinshaw expresses regret over COVID-19 surge as ICUs fill up
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says she regrets her role in the province removing all public health restrictions in July, acknowledging it started the trajectory to the current COVID-19 surge that has intensive care...
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COVID-19: Does one vaccine have more side effects?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Alex Wong answers questions about COVID-19 vaccines, including whether any of the vaccines has more side effects and if vaccines can be mixed.
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Nigeria violence: Attacks devastate farms in northwest Nigeria
Statistics show three of Nigeria’s 10 poorest states are in the northwest, a region blighted by these attacks.
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Gang violence surges in Metro Vancouver
Vancouver is experiencing a spate of gang-related shootings — one of the victims was just 14 years old. And now, a former gang member is trying to help.
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Latin America reports worst economic crisis in over a century
The pandemic is the main cause of an overall seven percent drop, a figure representing mass job losses and businesses shutting down.
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Statistics about Canadian deaths don’t tell full story
As the pandemic delayed surgeries and treatments for patients who didn’t have COVID-19, new data shows a slight uptick in non-COVID-19 deaths in some provinces. But the bigger issue may be how incomplete the national data is, despite the...
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More than 1 million Canadians lost their job in March
Canada's economy lost more than one million jobs in March, Statistics Canada says, pushing the jobless rate up to 7.8 per cent. Economists had been expecting the figure to come in at around 500,000 jobs lost.
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New study says Vancouverites have every reason to be very happy
Despite what Vancouverites might say about living in the city, a new report shows there are plenty of reasons to be happy. The 2025 Happy City Index has ranked Vancouver the happiest city in North America. Justin McElroy explains how the...
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Born abroad, living in the EU: How migration shapes the EU’s population
The number of non-EU citizens living in the EU has grown by 2.3 million in 2023, with Ukrainian, Turkish, and Moroccan citizens representing the three largest groups.
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Edmonton building different kinds of homes in hopes of keeping up with booming population growth
As more people move to Edmonton, the push is on for more diverse housing options in more parts of the city. The CBC's Natasha Riebe has more.