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A former teacher at a Winnipeg high school has been sentenced to five years in prison, after she was convicted of sexual assault following what a judge called an "inherently wrongful" months-long relationship with a teenage student. http://dlvr.it/TDVPLv

A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to apparently mechanical failure. http://dlvr.it/TDTx5k

Quebec's Alimentation Couche-Tard started with one store in 1980. Now, the retailer stands a serious chance of taking over the largest operator of convenience stores in the world: 7-Eleven.  http://dlvr.it/TDTcHq

The harp emoji is the brainchild of beloved harpist Mary Lattimore and filmmaker Theo Schear, the man behind such emoji hits as juice box, disco ball, and Italian hand gesture. http://dlvr.it/TDTF3v

Up to 2,600 new housing units planned for the Heather Lands in Vancouver will be sold at 60 per cent of market value, according to a joint announcement by the province, the city and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. http://dlvr.it/TDSb1L

Youtube MrBeast is accused of creating "unsafe" employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants' odds at winning his new Amazon reality show's $5-million US grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants. http://dlvr.it/TDRwy7

Seven years after sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein turbocharged the #MeToo movement, the ex-movie mogul faces a new sex crime charge from an accuser who's never told her story publicly. http://dlvr.it/TDRHt3

The Saskatchewan Party has released its full slate of 61 candidates for the 2024 provincial election. Alongside that social media post Friday was a list of five candidates that have past convictions for impaired driving. http://dlvr.it/TDRHWS

CBC London Morning host Andrew Brown recently went out with the non-profit group 519 Pursuit to meet the hidden homeless in the southwestern Ontario city. The outreach organization knows people by name, delivering 80 hot meals, sandwiches and water, every week day to camps in alleys, along the river and in the woods.  http://dlvr.it/TDQvd4

Manitoba's NDP caucus chair says an MLA booted from caucus earlier this week had shown a pattern of deceit and disrespect before he was removed. http://dlvr.it/TDQDjc

On Dec. 22, 2023, Mathis Boivin, 15, died after overdosing on nitazene, a synthetic opioid five times stronger than fentanyl. His father, Christian Boivin said he felt “a lot of emotion” when he received a call from police announcing arrests tied to the death of his son.  http://dlvr.it/TDPZBV

Residents of an encampment in Kingston, Ont., say the two men who were killed there last week didn't see eye to eye, nor even like each other very much, but that didn't stop one from running to the other's aid when the violence broke out. http://dlvr.it/TDNy3j

Ali Hijazi’s brother was beaten to death in the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre in Montreal last week, and now he wants answers. http://dlvr.it/TDNZFm

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A supermoon is already visible in parts of the world on Tuesday, including the Middle East and Asia. And the celestial spectacle will be visible across North and South America when the moon rises there. http://dlvr.it/TDMvLd

Health Canada authorized Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday to roll out in fall and winter immunization campaigns. http://dlvr.it/TDMFQH

For a long time in her family, Liz Harrison says it has been a privilege to be able to afford to dental hygiene and cleaning. http://dlvr.it/TDLcZZ

The Toronto-born poet and author is recognized for her novel, Held, which weaves together historical figures and events. http://dlvr.it/TDLDZY

Logging is the third-highest carbon emitter in Canada, a new report says. Critics say it’s time the country updates how the industry tracks its environmental footprint — and the industry changes its practices. http://dlvr.it/TDKsqL

Mark Wasyliw has been removed from the Manitoba NDP caucus "effective immediately," the party said Monday, because one colleague in his law practice is defending convicted sexual predator Peter Nygard in court. http://dlvr.it/TDKZRG

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How can the federal government prevent other countries from trying to meddle in Canada’s elections? That will be the focus as the public inquiry into foreign interference begins its second phase of hearings on Monday. http://dlvr.it/TDJJVJ

The family of a Truro firefighter who died in 2019 after an accident at Nova Scotia's only firefighter training school say they're appalled to learn that serious gaps at the school continued as recently as this spring. http://dlvr.it/TDHxY9

The UNRWA has opened 36 makeshift classrooms in Khan Younis, to serve 7,600 kids while they shelter there. After almost a year of war, children and their parents are wary of the new school year, but students remain excited to learn. http://dlvr.it/TDHbwQ

Ontario's Ministry of Education will launch an investigation into the financial operations of London's largest school board, after officials revealed on Thursday that senior administration spent nearly $40,000 on a three-day planning retreat in Toronto last month.  http://dlvr.it/TDHKQL

B.C. Hydro started filling the Site C dam reservoir last month. As the $16-billion hydroelectric megaproject gets closer to becoming operational, worries persist — in Alberta and beyond — that it could lower water levels in the Peace River and other rivers downstream. http://dlvr.it/TDGn9s

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A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since NASA's moonwalkers. http://dlvr.it/TDG6Vf

Anglophone schools in the province hired at least 132 teachers who had no teaching degree for this school year, and some had no degree at all. http://dlvr.it/TDFtzv

Josh Ross took home top honours Saturday with his whisky-soaked ballad of heartbreak and k.d. lang got the band back together as the Canadian Country Music Association Awards returned to Edmonton for the first time in a decade. http://dlvr.it/TDFhkk

Quebecer Nathan Macameau was hit by a car moments after stepping off a school bus in August. His family is calling for changes to regulations regarding drop-off and pick-up of students and say the accident wouldn't have happened if he got off the bus on the right side of the road. http://dlvr.it/TDFClB

Federal public servants were expected to be back in the office three days a week starting Monday, but the transition in Ottawa was anything but smooth. http://dlvr.it/TDDmt1

Special coverage of byelections in Montreal and Winnipeg begins at 9 p.m. ET, half an hour before the polls close. http://dlvr.it/TDDX7C

WARNING: This article contains details of abuse. In his new memoir Just Say Yes, Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald charts his path from an unhappy and sometimes abusive home to Canada's foremost explainer of all things scientific. http://dlvr.it/TDCvJq

It started more than a year ago, took nearly 50 days in a courtroom and may not be decided until next year, but the trial of two leaders of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" protest in Ottawa finally ended Friday. http://dlvr.it/TDClB4

A Montreal-based circus company, Cirque Éloize, lost millions of dollars worth of equipment, costumes and archives when a city water main broke and flooded its storage facility last month. http://dlvr.it/TDCJ2Q

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly's announcement Tuesday that Canada's suspended 30 military export permits to "ask questions" may have been intended to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo on Israel. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle. http://dlvr.it/TDBZzW

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at how longer wildfire seasons is affecting firefighting, explain how geothermal heating works and look at a project cooking up fresher, healthier hospital meals while offering climate benefits. http://dlvr.it/TDBDPJ

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government will end the provincial carbon tax on consumers and shift the onus to "big polluters" if the federal government removes a legal requirement to keep the tax in place.  http://dlvr.it/TD9gDY

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gave the federal government and First Nations organizations a blunt, imploring message as the latest hearing in a complex, 17-year-old human rights complaint concluded in Ottawa. http://dlvr.it/TD9V5j

Health Canada has issued a recall for vitamins and medication sold by a Canadian pharmaceutical brand, according to notices this week. http://dlvr.it/TD91jS

Aaron James still can't see out of his new left eye. But the fact that his body accepted the transplant is being hailed as a major breakthrough on the path to developing vision-restoration surgery. http://dlvr.it/TD8HjD

Former MLA Derek Fildebrandt’s trial got underway Wednesday with testimony from three teenaged boys who said the accused threatened to shoot them and chased them in his pickup truck.  http://dlvr.it/TD7wVw

The Toronto International Film Festival says it's not pulling a controversial documentary about Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine from its schedule, despite outcry from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to propaganda. http://dlvr.it/TD7CBN

A dramatic four-day rescue operation has successfully freed a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear in the Hecate Strait off British Columbia's North Coast. But a 20-metre fin whale found in Prince Rupert Harbour was not as fortunate. http://dlvr.it/TD70bN

Former residents of the transitional floor of the Villa des Brises care home say the call buttons could ring for hours, as families say they dealt with indifferent staff. http://dlvr.it/TD6Pmy

This year’s hurricane season began ominously enough — with warnings from Canadian and U.S. forecasters that it was going to be rougher-than-normal season, and Hurricane Beryl plowing through the Caribbean as the earliest Category 5 storm in history. http://dlvr.it/TD5fZ2

Three people have been arrested and charged with criminally harassing federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller and two other people in his entourage. The arrests led to protests on Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse, with people saying the accused's arrests were unfair. http://dlvr.it/TD5L55

Canada's military ombudsman has launched a review of the Department of National Defence's (DND) treatment of former language and cultural advisers who served alongside Canadian troops in Afghanistan. http://dlvr.it/TD4PGF

A Halifax mother says she was left feeling terrified after her eight-year-old twin daughters were more than 4½ hours late returning home from school on the bus, prompting her to call police amid a lack of communication from school and transportation officials. http://dlvr.it/TD4P2k