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A Canadian class-action lawsuit accusing a popular fertility-tracking app of sending users’ intimate health information — including details about their periods, sex lives and pregnancies — to companies like Facebook without their knowledge has been allowed to go ahead. Claim says Flo shared users' sensitive data, like details around periods …

When Vicki Gruber was a kid growing up in Stoney Creek, she loved to watch the cargo ships pass from Lake Ontario to the Hamilton Harbour through the Burlington Canal. Now, as Hamilton's harbour master, she's in charge of making sure such vessels transit safely. Vicki Gruber was Hamilton's first …

More than 2,500 people have signed a petition demanding a public inquiry to determine why the electricity bills of some Nova Scotia Power customers have jumped far more than 6.5 per cent, after the utility instituted a rate hike of that amount on Jan. 1. More than 2,500 people are …

Amy and Greg Hoyt want their son to be acknowleged in his school's yearbook, but the district has said no, citing 'suicide contagion.' Carson Hoyt died in 2021, education minister says he should be included in yearbook WARNING: This story contains details about suicide. From kindergarten until the end of …

More than 2,500 people have signed a petition demanding a public inquiry to determine why the electricity bills of some Nova Scotia Power customers have jumped far more than 6.5 per cent, after the utility instituted a rate hike of that amount on Jan. 1. More than 2,500 people are …

A legal tussle over a dog has cost both sides thousands in legal fees — and plenty of heartache — while highlighting how the law treats pets in estate battles. Former partner appeals ruling that the pet belongs to dead man's estate A legal tussle over a dog has cost …

The RCMP is apologizing after an officer failed to properly investigate Jennifer Johner's claim 20 years ago that she was attacked while fighting off a sexual advance. The RCMP says the officer, now retired, refused to take part in investigating her complaint Jennifer Johner's voice shakes when she reads the …

Can you put a price on protecting your children from a potentially deadly meningitis-causing bacteria? It's about $320, unless you happen to have private insurance that covers a vaccine recommended by public health officials in Kingston, Ont. — one of a handful of regions in Canada seeing a spike in …

CBC’s Marketplace documented driving schools and instructors in Ontario offering a shortcut to beginner driver education certificates for a fee, making drivers eligible for insurance discounts and a reduced wait for road tests. Schools submit false information to government saying drivers completed 40 hours of training Many Ontario driving instructors …

Residents of the south Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven say they are struggling to process the horrific mass killing of a Sri Lankan family, including a mother, her four young children and a family acquaintance, by a young man who was living with them. 6 people, including 4 children, killed inside …