Carolyn Dunn

Facing labour camps after the fall of Saigon, the Trinh family became among the millions of people to escape Vietnam. Their journey of hunger and danger aboard a rickety fishing boat, ending in a successful life in Canada, has inspired a new Heritage Minute.

A Carl’s Jr. franchisee has been caught on video violating at least 10 food safety regulations. Jack Webb co-owns the fast food restaurant in Red Deer, Alta. CBC News has exclusively obtained the video that got him temporarily tossed from his own kitchen.

Over the last four years, Lethbridge NDP MLA Shannon Phillips has had suspicions that some members of the city’s police force have been monitoring her. A cache of newly released documents shows she was right.

The largest solar project in the country will have 1.3 million solar panels over 3,300 acres of farmland. When it’s done, it will put enough electricity directly in to the grid to power the equivalent of 150,000 homes.

Despite claims to the contrary, witnesses say Jason Kenney was, at a minimum, present for money discussions about funding Jeff Callaway’s campaign for the UCP leadership, set specific conditions of his own and even gave Callaway a gift at a thank you party after he dropped out of the race.

Sam Everitt, who recently moved from Montreal to Toronto, discovered his “guaranteed” U-Haul reservation didn’t actually guarantee him a moving truck when and where he expected. The resulting hassle took hours and cost him hundreds of dollars. And he’s not alone.

An Edmonton man was surprised to find he could see the private information of other Brinks home security customers through the Brinks system in his house. He was even more surprised it took Brinks months to fix it, even after he repeatedly called to alert them.

An Ontario man’s car burst into flames right after routine servicing, and there was seemingly no investigation by the dealership or insurance company. One safety expert says this highlights a gap in road safety regulations, but Transport Canada says new rules are on the way.

Instacart shoppers are again questioning whether they’re being paid correctly. The grocery delivery giant says it’s all accurate and according to their contracts, but it also no longer shows shoppers a mileage breakdown of their pay, so they have to take the company’s word for it.

After losing his phone at the Toronto airport, Olu Awoseyi was encouraged to see it had taken a photo of an Air Canada employee, who had apparently tried to unlock it. But after five weeks of back and forth — and despite the airline saying it had ID’d the employee — he still doesn’t have his phone.