Lifeline

Canada

‘Rail is our lifeline’: Businesses brace for possible CN/CPKC shutdown amid lockout-strike threats

To business executive Daniel Peretz, the possibility of a railway strike or lockout is more than a headline.  “The rail…

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Canada

Winter roads are a lifeline in the north. Climate change is making them more untenable

When the weather turns cold, and the ice starts to form, residents in Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta start to…

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Health

With inconsistent support for brain injuries in Canada, peer groups are a lifeline

It’s early December and Barb Butler is handing out photocopied, handwritten notes to the group seated in a circle around…

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Nova Scotia

Donated phones a lifeline for people who are homeless or escaping violence, advocates say

Some Nova Scotia organizations working with vulnerable communities are urging members of the public to donate their old cellphones so…

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Nova Scotia

Group of Lower Sackville neighbours offer lifeline to those living in homeless encampment

For the people living in tents on a baseball field in Lower Sackville, N.S., a group of strangers has become…

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Tech

Ecological corridors can provide animals — and people — with a lifeline in a warming world

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our…

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Nova Scotia

Ocean Lifeline Saved NS Lobster Pound Cut Off by Wildfires for 13 Days

The situation was bleak. The wildfire was closing in and there were $5 million worth of live lobsters in tanks…

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