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Organized crime groups driving Canada’s worst-ever auto theft epidemic are adapting by increasingly selling hot vehicles in Canada to unsuspecting buyers with little protection, police say. Veteran investigators argue they exploit a weakness in provincial registration systems that needs to be fixed.
9 days ago
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Canadian combat engineers teaching front-line Ukrainians landmine detection, destruction.
about 1 year ago
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Marketplace has been investigating the hidden fees tacked onto consumers’ bills at hotels, restaurants and attractions in Niagara Falls, Ont., and has found the fees continue to increase with little oversight or regulation.
about 1 year ago
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Uptown Toronto dentist Dr. Amir Haydarian began a two-year sexual relationship with a woman soon after she became his patient, a relationship that produced a child, in what a panel with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario is calling sexual abuse.
about 1 year ago
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Following an undercover investigation by CBC’s Marketplace into a group of national moving companies accused of deceptive pricing, Toronto police have arrested two key figures and charged them with a slew of criminal offences.
almost 2 years ago
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Charges of sexual assault and sexual interference have been withdrawn against
Toronto dentist Dr. Amir Haydarian after prosecutors said there was “no
reasonable prospect of conviction” and that they had doubts about the
credibility of the main complainant.
almost 2 years ago
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Western Union reached a settlement to repay victims of phone scammers after it
was targeted in a federal investigation in the United States for its role in the
scheme, in which fraudsters convinced people to send money through the transfer
service. Compensation is available globally, including in Ca…
almost 2 years ago
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The world’s top nuclear monitor warned Tuesday that while Ukraine has regained
control over the Chornobyl power plant, there’s a need for ongoing vigilance at
the infamous facility amid the war. The warning came 36 years to the day after
the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster at the site.
about 2 years ago
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The RCMP’s Project Octavia arrested 11 people in Canada who were accused of funneling money to criminal syndicates running phone scams that target Canadians. But before any of those cases made it to trial, the Mounties disbanded the special task force
about 2 years ago
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Canadian team’s virtual reality trainer allows medical students and surgeons to
hone their craft by donning goggles and using simulated scalpels, surgical
drills and other tools to practice different types of surgery.
about 3 years ago
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Advances by manufacturers are bringing the latest crop of electric-powered
vehicles to the point where they’re starting to overcome the four main reasons
Canadians say they’re wary of going electric.
about 5 years ago
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The Canadian Coast Guard is about to open something it’s never had before — an Inshore Rescue Boat Station in Canada’s vast North, crewed almost entirely by post-secondary students from Inuit backgrounds.
almost 6 years ago
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A rare look inside a Canadian submarine, HMCS Chicoutimi, as it conducts a surveillance mission in Asia-Pacific waters.
about 6 years ago
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CBC Marketplace investigated how bot software often beats the general public to grab the best seats so resellers can peddle them to fans at a markup.
over 7 years ago
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CBC’s Marketplace investigated why it’s so hard for fans to get good seats and found that only one-third of tickets for the Tragically Hip’s Man Machine Poem tour made it to fans at face value.
over 7 years ago
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There could soon be robots wandering our sewers, sucking up what we flush down to analyze our diets, our drug use and our health, and to watch out for disease outbreaks.
almost 8 years ago