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Ever since the Galvin brothers introduced the first car radio — the Motorola — back in 1930, we’ve enjoyed all sorts of audio while behind the wheel. For decades, the radio was our main source of entertainment and information while we travelled from point A to point B.

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As more Canadians seek IVF treatment, advocates warn about infertility ‘crisis’

Cassie and Brady Staigh had been trying to have a baby for about three years when they finally decided to seek help.

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Ukraine rescue group brings home 31 children taken by Russia

The head of a Ukrainian rescue organization said Saturday that the organization has brought back 31 children from Russia, where they had been taken during the war.

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CRA ‘confident’ a compromise is possible as tax season strike fears grow

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says it will be transparent about any impact to its services if workers go on strike — potentially as soon as this week.At the same time, the agency says it is “confident” a compromise can be reached.“The CRA is committed to being transparent with Canadians about impacts to services, should they happen,” the agency said in a statement released Friday.The deadline for filing income tax and benefit returns for 2022 is April 30, but since that’s a Sunday CRA says Canadians can still file on May 1. Read more: CRA workers vote in favour of strike action as tax deadline nears An ongoing labour dispute over contracts and wages resulted in CRA workers voting Friday in favour of strike action.The CRA said it will resume negotiations later this month with the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Union of Taxation Employees to try to reach a new collective agreement that is both fair to workers and reasonable for taxpayers.A final round of negotiations is set to take place April 17-20, with CRA workers in a legal strike position starting April 14.“We are confident that the parties will find many areas of potential compromise and trade-off, through honest discussions and concessions by both sides, during the upcoming negotiations,” the CRA said.

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‘A desperate situation’: Injured N.B. man stranded in Florida due to full hospitals at home

Florida, which was supposed to be a dream vacation for them. The 82- and 84-year-olds were hoping to use the time to travel around the Southern U.S.

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Will TikTok vanish on campus? Universities debate its future as app-maker cries foul

TikTok, a move the app-maker calls “ill-conceived.”The University of British Columbia (UBC), Dalhousie University, McGill University and Memorial University of Newfoundland have either implemented or are planning to enact policies or recommendations on the use of the popular social media app. Read more: UBC encourages students to uninstall TikTok app, citing ‘not yet’ proven data risks Canada has joined a growing number of countries in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region that have banned TikTok from government devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns increase.

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‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse sex abuse charges upheld, drug crime dropped

A Nevada judge on Friday threw out a drug trafficking charge against a Dances With Wolves actor but upheld a Las Vegas grand jury’s sweeping indictment on 18 sexual abuse-related felony crimes.

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Ex-husband of Edmonton soldier who tried to kill their children sues Canadian military

The ex-husband of an Edmonton soldier who tried to kill their children eight years ago has filed a $11-million lawsuit against the federal justice department and military over how the investigation into the situation was handled.

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Total solar eclipse to arc across North America in April 2024

One year from now, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions of Canadians will be taking it in.

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Pop star Paul Cattermole, member of S Club 7, dead at 46

British pop star Paul Cattermole, a member of the late 90s group S Club 7, has died aged 46, a statement published on the band’s Twitter page said.

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Deadly ice storm leaves 3 dead, hundreds of thousands still without power

In Quebec and Ontario, hundreds of thousands of households remained in the dark Friday after Wednesday’s powerful spring ice storm downed trees and brought down power lines, leaving three men dead in the two provinces.

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CRA workers vote in favour of strike action as tax deadline nears

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers have voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of taking strike action, according to a statement released Friday from the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

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Soft, hard or ‘bumpy’ landing? Gauging Canada’s odds of a recession

Ottawa’s 2023 budget — will Canada’s previously roaring economy coast into a so-called “soft landing” as it slows, or tumble sharply into a recession?Ongoing calls from a chorus of economists predicting a recession to hit Canada in 2023 have come up against surprisingly strong economic data in the early part of the year, making the tea leaves of an economic downturn especially hard to read.A recession is a widespread decline in economic activity over a certain period of time – usually defined as two straight quarters of negative growth.Ottawa’s 2023 budget bases its economic forecast on a consensus of private sector economists.That document, released March 28, showed that economists’ place the odds of a recession higher than when they were last polled for the 2022 fall economic update.But if the economy is supposed to be slowing down right now, someone might want to tell the economy.January’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures outpaced initial estimates from Statistics Canada with 0.6 per cent growth, rebounding from the flat reading in the final quarter of 2022.Canada’s labour market meanwhile held tight with a 5.0 per cent unemployment rate through the first quarter of 2023. The country’s employers have been in a hiring mood as of late, with net 383,000 positions added since last September.

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Lori Vallow trial: What to know about the ‘cult mom’ accused of killing her 2 kids

dead bodies of kids Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, who were 7 and 16 at the time of their disappearance, on a rural Idaho property belonging to their stepfather.The grisly investigation that followed revealed allegations of doomsday plots and fringe religious beliefs, and ended with the children’s mother, Lori Vallow, and their stepfather, Chad Daybell, being charged for their deaths. Vallow and Daybell are also believed to be behind the murders of each person’s former spouse.Daybell’s trial has yet to be scheduled but Vallow’s murder trial moved forward this week when jury selection began on Monday.

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Bud Light partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney prompts backlash

Bud Light beer.A brand deal between Bud Light and transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney has triggered loud anti-trans backlash online. The deal, which saw Mulvaney’s face printed on a single signature Blue can, has sounded numerous calls for LGBTQ2 opposition to destroy their beer stockpiles and potentially boycott the brand entirely.Mulvaney, who has 10.8 million followers on TikTok, shared the Bud Light-sponsored post to Instagram on Saturday.

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RCMP arrests two women after they return to Canada from ISIS camps in Syria

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COVID-19: Spring vaccination campaign shifting focus to most at-risk, MLHU says

COVID-19 outcomes will be the focus of the local vaccination effort through the spring, officials with the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) say.It comes after Dr. Kieran Moore, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said Thursday that those considered high-risk, like residents 65 and older and residents who are pregnant, should get a booster dose this spring if it’s been six months since their last dose or COVID-19 infection.“This is a bit of a shift in terms of the booster campaigns.

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High-risk people should get next COVID boosters this spring: Ontario’s top doctor

COVID-19 infection should get their next vaccine booster shot this spring.Dr. Kieran Moore says high-risk individuals include anyone age 65 and older, pregnant women and people living in senior care facilities, such as long-term care homes.The list also includes people over 18 who are immunocompromised as well as First Nations, Inuit or Metis age 55 and older and their non-Indigenous household members of the same age.

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A grocery rebate scam is targeting Canadians. How to avoid getting tricked

Scammers are using Ottawa’s proposed grocery rebate to target unsuspecting Canadians, cybersecurity officials say.

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‘Clear violation’: Experts say Alberta premier must explain call with accused

Premier Danielle Smith must explain to Albertans why she discussed a criminal case with the accused before his trial, whether she still believes such calls are OK and whether she will continue to have these conversations, legal experts and political scientists say.

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19-year-old’s body exhumed 7 years after he was found dead near Murdaugh home

On July 8, 2015, the badly injured body of 19-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of a rural road in South Carolina, just 24 kilometres from the home of the now-infamous Murdaugh family.

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The DNA results are in: Woman who said she was Madeleine McCann not missing girl

DNA test results are in for the Polish woman who captured international attention earlier this year for claiming to be Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation in Portugal.The tests revealed that Julia Wendell, 21, is not the missing girl. Wendell has near 100 per cent Polish heritage, with no evidence of British or even German ancestry, according to spokeswoman Dr.

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Majority of Canadians who don’t own a home have ‘given up’: poll

Despite a sizeable drop in home prices over the past year and a slew of federal government measures aimed at addressing housing affordability, a new poll suggests Canadians are no more encouraged about breaking into the housing market.

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Why is your grocery bill so high? Canadians blame price gouging, survey finds

food prices are higher, despite grocery store CEOs testifying otherwise.The report was done by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Lab in partnership with Caddle, and surveyed close to 10,000 Canadians at the end of March.It found that in all provinces except Saskatchewan and Quebec, grocery chain price gouging was chosen as the main reason food prices have risen in Canada recently. Nova Scotians chose that reason the most, at 51.8 per cent, followed by Newfoundland and Labrador at 38.1 per cent, and Prince Edward Island at 36.1 per cent.Other provinces trailed a little above 30 per cent in choosing that reason, with those in Saskatchewan and Quebec choosing it the least.

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‘American Idol’ contestant quits show weeks after Katy Perry ‘mom-shaming’ comment

Despite insisting from singer andAmericanIdol judge Katy Perry, contestant Sara Beth Liebe doesn’t think show business is for her.

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Carson Briere booted from NCAA hockey team after charges laid in wheelchair incident

Carson Briere, the 23-year-old son of Gatineau hockey great Daniel Briere, has been officially removed from the Mercyhurst University men’s hockey team, a Division 1 team in the NCAA.Briere was temporarily suspended from the Mercyhurst Lakers hockey team shortly after security footage of him shoving an unoccupied wheelchair down a staircase at a bar in Erie, Pa., went viral.Two weeks ago, Erie County pressed charges against Briere and Patrick Carrozzi, another Mercyhurst athlete, for the stunt after the wheelchair’s owner filed a complaint listing extensive damage to her chair. Read more: Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felonies On Monday night, Mercyhurst Athletics announced that Briere “has been removed” from the university’s hockey team.“Mercyhurst cannot comment further on this matter,” the statement concluded.A statement on behalf of Mercyhurst University and Mercyhurst University Athletics.

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Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felonies

Former U.S. President Donald Trump faced a judge in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned on business fraud charges over hush money payments allegedly made to a woman who say they had sexual affairs with him.

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Four dead bodies found near Cancun beach resort in Mexico

Cancun said they found the bodies of four dead people in the city’s hotel zone near the beach on Monday. The incident marks the latest outbreak of violence in the famous resort town as tourists flock south for Easter holidays.The Attorney General of Quintana Roo, the Mexican state where Cancun is located, said police initially found three bodies on Monday in a lot near a resort along Kukulkan Boulevard.

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Cruise ship passenger dies after falling from balcony, landing on another traveller

A Virgin Voyages cruise ship returned to its Miami port Sunday after a passenger fell from a balcony and onto a lower deck, killing them.

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Bitcoin scam: Victim faced with excuses, told to pay large fees when trying to withdraw funds

A victim in a cryptocurrency scam who invested $400,000 was faced with multiple excuses and told to pay large fees when attempting to withdraw the funds, Toronto police say.

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The Rogers-Shaw deal is done. What happens next for Canadian consumers, telecom

Two years after it was first announced, Rogers Communications Inc.’s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. is complete.

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Deepest fish ever recorded caught on camera over 8,000 metres down trench

Japan in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists captured footage of a snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below the surface, the deepest depths ever recorded.Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMST) released the video on Monday. Read more: Video captures 33 swimmers accused of harassing wild dolphin pod in Hawaii In the footage initially recorded by an unmanned submersible in September, an “extremely small” young snailfish is seen swimming just above the seabed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench.

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P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives projected to win majority government

Prince Edward Island were projected to deliver a majority win to the incumbent Progressive Conservatives on Monday after an election campaign dominated by debate over heath care and housing.An hour after polls closed, Premier Dennis King’s Tories had captured 56 per cent of the votes counted and were leading in 22 of the province’s 27 ridings. King was easily re-elected in his riding of Brackley-Hunter River.The Liberals were ahead in three ridings and the Greens in two.King’s first four years in office were marked by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two major post-tropical storms and mounting health-care woes.

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Got a gift card? Use it before you possibly lose it

Bed Bath & Beyond.She knew the retailer’s Canadian locations were shutting down, but she thought since the stores were still open she could use her cards.She was wrong.“We went to use our gift cards and were told unfortunately that we weren’t able to anymore,” she told Global News. “We contacted BBB to see what kind of options we had about getting our money back for it and we kind of hit a wall.“It was really frustrating.

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Man who sued Gwyneth Paltrow over ski crash regrets ever filing lawsuit

Terry Sanderson, the retired optometrist who sued actor Gwyneth Paltrow over an alleged 2016 ski accident, regrets ever pursuing legal action.

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Italy’s government wants to ban English, with fines up to $150K

Italy‘s ruling party has introduced a law that seeks to ban governments and corporations from using English in official communications under threat of fines up to 100,000 euros, or $150,000.

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Weekend knife attack on B.C. bus was ISIS terrorism, RCMP alleges

An attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend is being treated as terrorism after RCMP national security police took over the investigation.

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Canadian Jeremy Hansen named to NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon

Artemis II moon mission next year, officials revealed Monday.Serving as a mission specialist, Hansen will be one of four astronauts assigned to the 10-day mission that is scheduled for launch in November 2024, NASA and Canadian Space Agency officials said. The other three astronauts on the mission are all American: Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover and G.

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Artemis II: Why NASA is sending a crew around the moon after 50 years

moon.NASA is planning to send four astronauts, including a Canadian, around the moon with the launch of the Artemis II mission set for next year. Read more: NASA reveals next-gen spacesuit for the next astronauts on the Moon In preparation for that, on Monday, the U.S space agency and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will be announcing the four-person crew that will venture around the moon and back.Monday’s event will be held at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston.Canada’s Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will be in attendance along with the CSA’s vice president, Mary Preville.On April 3, you will meet the team of astronauts flying to the Moon on the #Artemis II mission.These explorers will pave the way for future lunar landings and our next giant leap — human exploration of Mars.

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Extended beeping heard on Jays’ remote radio call

Blue Jays radio listeners were thrown a curveball over the weekend when an alarm-type beeping sound interrupted a remote broadcast of Toronto’s road game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Here’s proof that there’s just too much music being made. WAY too much.

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Budget 2023 won’t fuel inflation, but misses the bigger economic picture: experts

federal budget won’t fuel inflation but may be missing the bigger economic picture as a recession looms and the country’s cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze Canadians, experts say.The budget unveiled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday promises to cut more than $15 billion in spending from the government’s books, but also abandons plans from the fall economic statement that projected a map to balanced budget. The federal deficit is projected to decrease by up to $14 billion in the downside scenario by 2027-28 from $43 billion.“If you look at the size of the deficit that they are projecting going forward, they’re not really adding materially to inflation relative to the path that we were already on,” said Craig Alexander, the former chief economist of Deloitte, in an interview with Mercedes Stephenson that aired Sunday on The West Block.

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RCMP ‘will be successful’ in laying more interference charges: interim chief

RCMP says he would support additional laws that allow police to further crack down on foreign interference in Canada, as well as ways to further collaborate with intelligence officials on the issue.But Mike Duheme adds multiple investigations remain underway that he’s confident will lead to criminal charges, though he did not give specifics.“When you ask any police officers if we can have more laws — if we can have additional legislation that would ensure that it would assist us as we move forward, but also ensure the safety of the public and of Canadians — I’d say yes, I’m favorable for that and very supportive,” Duheme told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block. Read more: On foreign interference, Canada playing ‘whack-a-mole’ to China’s chess: expert He pointed to the case in November where a Hydro-Quebec employee was charged with alleged espionage on behalf of China as an example of a successful RCMP investigation into foreign interference.“We were successful in laying charges against this individual, and we have other files that are moving forward that we will be successful in laying charges,” said Duheme, who was previously deputy commissioner of federal policing and oversaw foreign interference investigations as part of his mandate.Duheme would not say if those charges were related to the alleged Chinese-operated “police stations” the RCMP says it is investigating in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal areas.He said those investigations are ongoing and urged anyone with information to reach out to investigators.

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Should you get another COVID booster? Guidelines are changing

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it no longer “routinely recommends” additional COVID-19 vaccine boosters for medium or low-risk people, but one Canadian doctor is warning the “advice isn’t probably the best.”

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Ottawa spends millions on 944K phone lines. Nearly a third are ‘dormant’

In the 2023 federal budget, the Trudeau government vowed to find savings of more than $15-billion over four years.

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Canadian Navy offers ‘no strings attached’ program amid recruitment woes

The Royal Canadian Navy is offering a one-year trial period for Canadians to join with “no strings attached” as it faces a major recruitment challenge and unprecedented personnel shortage.

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Canada’s carbon pricing is going up again. What it means for your wallet

carbon price is set to go up starting Saturday.The fuel charge is rising by 30 per cent from $50 per tonne of emissions to $65 on April 1. This will translate to an increase of roughly three cents per litre for gas, reaching a total of 14 cents per litre.The scheduled increase will apply in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon and Nunavut.Meanwhile, the carbon price jump will go into effect in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island on July 1.

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Reactions to Rogers-Shaw deal mixed in Alberta

Reaction to the $26 billion Rogers-Shaw merger in Alberta was mixed on the day it was announced.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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