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Canada had more than 220 gambler suicides in last decade — but no inquests
This story is part of a CBC News series examining the public health impacts of online gambling. Dave, a retiree recovering from gambling addiction, says that when he was winning, he felt like a king, hooked by the prospect of wealth and recognition. But he says like most gamblers, he "inevitably" started losing. "Not only money — trust, people we care for, spouses, children, we lose the whole gamut.
MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada amid mounting harms
This story is part of a CBC News series examining the public health impacts of online gambling. For T.S., a 22-year-old Ontario man recovering from a gambling problem, widespread advertising for online casinos and betting during sports broadcasts is "frustrating." "Imagine you're an alcoholic and there was a beer ad during every show you watched," he told CBC News. His gambling started three years ago as a fun Friday night activity with friends, but escalated.
MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada amid mounting harms
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Problem gambling jumps, suicides triple in Ontario after expansion of online casinos
Investigates Nearly 130,000 Ontarians now show signs of problem gambling, compared to some 43,000 in 2018, a tripling of the number of people who meet the criteria of gambling too frequently, losing money and struggling with addiction, CBC News has learned.
Loblaw backtracks on dropping produce labels after customer backlash, new trade war
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Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash
Investigates·CBC Investigates Loblaw has reversed course on its decision earlier this month to drop country-of-origin labeling on produce signs in its stores in most provinces, following customer backlash.
Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores
More than a year after the Buy Canadian movement took root, grocery giants Loblaw and Sobeys are facing increased scrutiny over "maple washing" — the practice of promoting imported goods as homegrown. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) slapped two Loblaw-owned stores in January with $10,000 fines each for maple washing, and one month later, two other Loblaw-owned stores got formal warnings for the same violation, CBC News has learned. Sobeys is also on the CFIA's radar.
CBC investigation finds grocers Loblaw, Sobeys overcharging for underweight meat — again
A CBC News secret shopping investigation has uncovered — once again — several Loblaw-owned and Sobeys-affiliated stores overcharging for underweight meat, despite claims last year the grocery giants had taken steps to rectify the problem. "People are getting ripped off," said Terri Lee, a former inspector with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
Reported illnesses have tripled in some school districts. Experts say mental health is a factor
A child being mercilessly bullied in the schoolyard. A student with anxiety and ADHD who struggles to walk into a crowded, noisy classroom. A mortified teen who’s had an embarrassing photo shared with their entire grade. Such experiences are common. For some kids, they make going to school feel impossible. It’s called school avoidance, sometimes even school phobia. It happens when school does not feel safe and staying home becomes a form of self-protection.
Ontario's multimillion-dollar deal with American health clinics | CBC News
Hundreds of Ontario patients have been sent to U.S. hospitals and clinics for government-reimbursed medical care since 2018, according to exclusive data obtained by CBC News. The costs — over $212 million — were covered by taxpayers money through OHIP, the province's publicly funded health-care plan.
Mike Holmes-endorsed reno company says it's closing down, blames CBC News investigation
Business·CBC Investigates A home renovation company endorsed by celebrity contractor Mike Holmes said Tuesday it is closing down, blaming CBC News coverage. CBC reported 2 stories on AGM Renovations earlier this month Sophia Harris, Andreas Wesley · CBC News · Posted: Feb 15, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago An image from an AGM Renovations ad featuring Mike Holmes, right, and company founder Ivan Atanasov.
Mike Holmes endorsement ads for renovation company disappear amid CBC News investigation
Trusted Canadian TV celebrity contractor Mike Holmes has endorsed AGM Renovations in more than a dozen slick ads on radio, TV and social media.
$4M worth of prescription opioids disappeared from an Ontario pharmacy. No one can say where they went
Opioid painkillers are supposed to be closely guarded on their journey from manufacturer to patient. They are highly addictive, can cause deadly drug poisonings and have a high street value. So how could almost a quarter million of them disappear? The loss of more than 245,000 hydromorphone tablets, all eight milligrams and sold under the brand-name Dilaudid, was reported to Health Canada in May 2023 by a pharmacy somewhere in Ontario. They would be worth about $4 million if sold on the street.
Kids missing more school since pandemic, CBC analysis finds
It's a typical weekday in Beth Acton's Montreal home. Two of her children are at school, but another, 12-year-old Connor, is asleep upstairs under a pile of Squishmallows. Acton logs on to an app on her phone to report Connor's latest absence to his school, something she's been doing regularly since the fall of 2022, which was the second time Connor got COVID-19. "He is ill very, very frequently. You know, kind of catches anything that's going around….
Mike Holmes responds to CBC News story on demolished 'Holmes Approved Homes'
News·CBC Investigates For the first time, Mike Holmes has spoken publicly about a lawsuit that alleges houses in a “Holmes Approved Homes” housing development in Meaford, Ont. were built with defects, saying his company had no access to the houses during construction and was unable to help spot potential problems.
Social media apps that facilitate sextortion blamed for not doing enough to prevent it
Canada While the efforts of social media companies like Meta and Snap Inc. have helped remove leaked photos and videos from the internet and provided some support for victims of sextortion, experts say they do little to actually prevent the abuse from happening in the first place. Canadian tipline reports rising numbers, despite measures by big tech companies Social media companies like Meta and Snap Inc.
Foreign nurses out $24,000 — and left with no recourse — after job offers in N.L. disappear | CBC News Original
Joy Thompson has a dream of reuniting her family and having her daughters finally join her in Canada. Thompson came here in 2004 as a domestic worker to help support her children and put them through school back in the Philippines. "If I did not go out of my country, there's nothing for them. There's nothing for us," she said. Thompson saw her children occasionally over the years. Her son, also a nurse, works in Yellowknife.
Courts not protecting our kids, domestic violence survivors say
Warning: This story contains accounts of intimate-partner violence and self-harm. Kristen's nine-year-old daughter says she's afraid of her father and wants nothing to do with him. But there's a court order saying they have to spend time together, something the B.C. mother says she can't understand. Court records show the father has a criminal conviction for assaulting a family member.
Domestic violence survivors say family courts are failing them | CBC News
A couple of years into what at first seemed like a fairytale romance, Anna says, she started to feel like things weren't right. Her partner's behaviour was becoming erratic. There was drug abuse, emotional manipulation and infidelity, the B.C. woman said, along with increasing violence directed at her and her two young sons. Her partner would lose his temper, break down doors. She'd left twice and returned to try to make it work, but the third time, she made it clear the relationship was over.
Exclusive ski club received $1.4M in federal COVID relief amid 'record' year
Leaked financial documents show that Georgian Peaks, an exclusive Ontario ski club, received almost $1.4 million in federal pandemic relief in 2020/21 — a record-breaking season. The club ended up with a $1.5-million budget surplus, and hiked initiation fees to $43,000. Georgian Peaks Ski Club, near Collingwood, Ont., opened this new, 'state of the art' $13-million lodge this season, after receiving almost $1.4 million in federal COVID relief last fiscal year.
Parents begged for investigation of controversial junior hockey coach during stint in Alberta town
On Jan. 29, 2020, a group of hockey parents and billet families with the Edson, Alta., Junior A Aeros spent a long evening debating the wording of the letter they were writing, and worrying about the fallout. But they were in agreement — something had to be done about the team's coach, Bernie Lynch. In January 2020, parents and billet families in Edson, Alta., wrote a letter to the Western States Hockey League expressing their concern about the behaviour of Bernie Lynch, head coach of Edson Aeros.
Junior hockey coach's suspension for 'inappropriate' texts, emails to player not made public by team or league
In January, Bernie Lynch was suspended without pay from his job as head coach of the Fort Frances Lakers, a Junior 'A' club in northwestern Ontario, and ordered to have no further contact with the players. But more than two months later, neither the team nor the league has publicly disclosed this.
New Ontario law leaves Toronto and other big cities with challenge of securing landfills for their garbage | CBC News
Ontario’s large cities may be left scrambling to find space for their garbage because of new legislation that makes it much harder to build landfills in the province. City workers pick up garbage from Canada Day beachgoers in Toronto in July. The Toronto-operated Green Lane Landfill is estimated to reach capacity in 14 to 16 years.
We looked at every confirmed COVID-19 case in Canada. Here's what we found Original
Canada's first known case of COVID-19 was detected eight months ago this week. As of Sept. 22, the coronavirus has been confirmed in 146,663 people across the country. CBC News has dug deep into the data collected by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to examine how COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, affects the young, the elderly, men and women in order to better understand what's most likely to land you in hospital — or worse.
Which party has the most effective carbon plan, and how will it affect the economy?
Climate action versus economic growth Each plan goes to the heart of the party's ideological approach to tackling climate change. The Liberals rely on market-driven measures, arguing that climate action and a strong economy can co-exist, while the Conservatives reject taxes on consumers or regulations on industry in favour of green technology.
RCMP launch hate crime probe of leader of nationalist group vying for party status in federal election | CBC News
RCMP in Saskatchewan have launched an investigation into an online video featuring the head of an extremist group that's poised to become Canada's next official political party. A video featuring Travis Patron, leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, is the subject of an RCMP investigation. (Nationalist.ca) RCMP in Saskatchewan have launched an investigation into an online video featuring the head of an extremist group that's poised to become Canada's next official political party.
1,200 misconduct allegations against Canada's border agents likely just 'the tip of the iceberg' | CBC News
The Canada Border Services Agency investigated 1,200 allegations against its own staff over a two and a half year period starting in January 2016, including accusations of criminal association, excessive force and sexual assault, documents obtained by CBC News through an access to information request show. An agent of the Canada Border Services Agency inspects a vehicle entering Canada at the Rainbow Bridge Border Crossing in Niagara Falls.
'You have to upsell them': Marketplace exposes how dealerships push maintenance you don't need
An undercover Marketplace investigation has exposed evidence of what many car owners have long suspected: some dealerships sell unnecessary service and push regular maintenance much sooner than the manufacturer recommends. Using hidden cameras and bait cars that were inspected by independent expert mechanics, Marketplace discovered some common upselling techniques used by service advisers.
Health Canada finds lead in Ardene jewelry, months after retailer vowed 'more stringent monitoring'
Months after Canadian fashion chain Ardene vowed stricter monitoring to keep toxic metals out of its jewelry, the company has recalled a set of necklaces Health Canada found to contain lead. The necklaces feature colourful pendants, shaped like a watermelon and a cactus, as well as two hearts inscribed with the words: "Best" and "Friends." The lead was found in April during a spot check conducted by the federal agency.
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