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Canada

Survivors call on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism

Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report…

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Politics

Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find unmarked graves

A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they’re calling a…

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Health

Superbugs could kill 39 million people by 2050. Here’s what Canadian survivors, doctors say should change

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers…

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Canada

Sixties Scoop survivors journey home to N.W.T. to reunite with family, reconcile past

Three sisters who call Fort Providence, N.W.T., home are on a journey of reunion.  The sisters are survivors of the…

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Sports

Israeli tennis player Berdichevsky has emotional reunion with Oct. 7 survivors at Paralympics

Adam Berdichevsky cried before his wheelchair tennis match at the Paralympics on Friday. He knew playing in front of fellow…

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Health

Female genital mutilation survivors, experts push for better support in Canada and abroad

WARNING: This story contains details of female genital mutilation/cutting Shamsa Sharawe was six years old when she became convinced her…

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Canada

‘Tenacious’ Montreal philanthropist, dead at 91, helped thousands of cancer survivors, friend says

As It Happens6:17‘Tenacious’ Montreal fundraiser, dead at 91, helped thousands of cancer survivors, friend says Mike Flinker first met his…

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Lifestyle

Holocaust survivor’s daughter reunited with brother in Poland

A Toronto woman who had been searching for her biological parents since she was a child finally has the answers…

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Nova Scotia

Halifax YWCA says it’s running out of funds to help survivors of gender-based violence

The Halifax YWCA says two funds designed to help survivors of gender-based violence flee abuse are already depleted and in dire…

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Tech

Culling wolves alters the survivors and that could be ‘bad news’ for caribou, study finds

When wolves are killed by bullets fired from helicopters during Alberta government culls, surviving members of the pack quickly learn…

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