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Manitoba Crown prosecutors are facing a tough decision on whether to lay criminal charges against an elderly man with dementia in the 2017 death of a 74-year-old woman at a Winnipeg personal care home. The incident that led to the death happened at Southeast Personal Care Home on Sept. 19, …

Justin Trudeau never promised to be perfect. “When we make a mistake, as all governments do, it is important that we acknowledge that mistake and learn from it,” he wrote in an open letter to Canadians issued the day he was sworn in as Canada’s 23rd prime minister. “We know …

Winnipeg police are apologizing after one of their officers took a photo of an intoxicated man while a first responder crew was helping him last Friday. In the photo, posted by Justin Highway, a smiling Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) employee is seen sitting next to a man who appeared …

A grizzly bear that terrorized a couple for roughly 12 hours on a remote lake in the Northwest Territories was known to be a problem, according to a territorial wildlife officer. The man and woman, who are originally from the U.S., were on a canoe trip 480 kilometres east of …

Canada’s largest underwater volcano is off the coast of British Columbia and, over the next two weeks, a team of national scientists will be doing a deep-sea exploration mission of the area. The team from Fisheries and Oceans Canada set off Monday on the deep-ocean journey to research the Explorer …

The death of six horses at the Calgary Stampede has spurred calls for change around the sport of chuckwagon racing, but the family who owned four of those horses are standing by a sport they love. Neil Salmond is the father of Evan Salmond, who lost four horses during the …

This story is part of Moon Landing: 50th Anniversary, a series from CBC News examining how far we’ve come since the first humans landed on the moon. Fifty years after Apollo 11, the space race has changed from a Cold War, state-funded contest to privately backed economic competition as companies …

Hinterland Who’s Who, the series of iconic public service announcements about Canadian wildlife, has released a new video on the common raven available in six Indigenous languages. The 30-second vignette joins the profiles on freshwater turtles and wolverines released in 2017 that are available with Woods Cree, Denesuline, Inuktitut, Mohawk, …

Against a backdrop of shocking declines in the health of the world’s ecosystems and species, a new report from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) says the federal government must commit to much more ambitious targets to protect the country’s land and water if it’s to have a chance …

A Saskatoon software company has clinched one of the largest venture capital investments in prairie tech sector history. Vendasta CEO Brendan King says a $40-million cash injection from private investor groups will allow the company to more than double in size in three years, to 650 employees from 285. “We’ll …