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Cyber Actors Take Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic to Exploit Increased Use of Virtual Environments




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With extra year, Christine Sinclair aiming to change colour of Canada's Olympic medals

In isolation with dog Charlie, Canadian soccer legend Christine Sinclair recalls "dream come true" of 2012 Olympic bronze and "heartbreak" of repeat in Rio in an interview with CBC Sports.




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National women's team win over Brazil at Rio 2016 'Canadian soccer's finest hour'

On this week's edition of Olympic Games Replay, CBC Sports showcases some of the big moments from Canada's journey through the women's soccer tournament at the Rio Olympics.




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Indoor soccer star from Hamilton flies under the radar back home in Canada

A showman and all-star with the Milwaukee Wave, Canadian Ian Bennett is a marquee goal-scorer in the Major Arena Soccer League. Still, the 36-year-old Hamilton native flies under the radar north of the border.



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Canadian soccer star Alphonso Davies, a former refugee, helping raise funds for UN relief

Teenaged Edmonton soccer star Alphonso Davies said he welcomes being a role model to young kids and wants to put his platform to good use.




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CPL, CEBL join Canadian Football League in requesting federal aid to endure pandemic

After the Canadian Football League confirmed its request for financial assistance from Ottawa on Wednesday, the Canadian Premier League and Canadian Elite Basketball League have followed suit.





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'Not ready' to reopen: Cree and non-Indigenous leaders in James Bay united, ask for more time

"We don't have the big hospitals and specialized care. Should COVID-19 spread, we don't have the capacity or the resources to deal with it," said Cree Grand Chief Abel Bosum.



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COVID-19 numbers from provincial, First Nations data sharing agreement won't be made public without consent

Manitoba health officials have an agreement with First Nations leaders to track and share COVID-19 data, but the public may never know specifics of what the unique agreement yields.



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Champion Manitoba jigger launches online competition to spread joy amid pandemic

Acclaimed jigger Ryan Richard, from Sandy Bay First Nation, is calling all dancers to showcase their skills in an online jigging competition.



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Supporters propose changes to N.B. motor vehicle act to honour Brady Francis

Friends and family of Brady Francis, a 22-year-old man who died in 2018 after a hit-and-run collision, are proposing changes to make reporting vehicle collisions with wildlife mandatory in New Brunswick.




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Fry Bread: Children's book explores the connection between cooking and colonization

Award-winning children's book explores big questions about colonization and identity.




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Communitech virtual job fair connects people with 350 tech jobs across Canada

More than 1,000 people looking for work in the tech industry are signed up for a virtual job fair on Thursday afternoon.



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Why birthday parades are OK but garage sales are not during COVID-19

As part of the province's approach to curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a number of rules in place that people have to follow. Kitchener and Waterloo bylaw officials offer some insight on what's allowed and what's not.



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Police say 2 Waterloo Regional Police Service badges stolen

Waterloo regional police two police badges were stolen from a home in Cambridge.



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Claypool, Gallimore top-rated Canadian prospects available in 2020 NFL Draft

Winnipeg Blue Bombers GM Kyle Walters isn't spending much time evaluating Oklahoma defensive lineman Neville Gallimore and Notre Dame receiver Chase Claypool, as neither are expected to set foot in the CFL for some time, if ever.



  • Sports/Football/NFL

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Lions trade up to select ECU's Jordan Williams with No. 1 overall pick

The B.C. Lions opened the draft with a bang, securing the No. 1 pick from the Calgary Stampeders then taking Williams first overall.



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Food truck owner adapts to COVID-19 by selling meal kits from driveway

Even though this year's food truck season is looking dicey, Tyler Schmidt says he's doing his best to find business where he can.



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Zoey Roy first Indigenous author to participate in NAC's #CanadaPerforms

Last month, the National Arts Centre launched #CanadaPerforms, an initiative that pays musicians and writers to perform from their living rooms. Poet Zoey Roy gave an intimate performance from her living room in Kingston. 




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Pandemic won't stop summer roadwork in Saskatoon

The COVID-19 pandemic won’t slow down road construction in Saskatoon. The city says it re-evaluated all planned projects for the year and determined it can move forward with the majority of the projects.



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MLB, NFL possible in empty stadiums, disease expert Dr. Fauci says

The NFL campaign and an abbreviated baseball season may be possible if games are played without fans and players are kept in lockdown, U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading infectious disease adviser said Wednesday.



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Patriots trade Rob Gronkowski to Brady's Buccaneers as TE ends retirement

Four-time All Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski has agreed to a reunion with Tom Brady. The trade, finalized Tuesday night, brings Gronkowski and a seventh-round pick to Tampa Bay in exchange for a fourth-round selection.



  • Sports/Football/NFL

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Brad Treliving, fellow NHL GMs hope to learn from remote NFL draft

Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving will watch Thursday's remote NFL draft and is planning to focus on how his football counterparts deal with the realities of their world during the COVID-19 pandemic.



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Canadian Duvernay-Tardif reworks contract to give NFL's Chiefs cap space

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and the Kansas City Chiefs have agreed to a restructured deal for the Canadian offensive lineman.



  • Sports/Football/NFL

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Canadian receiver Chase Claypool selected by Steelers in 2nd round of NFL draft

The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Canadian receiver Chase Claypool in the second round of the NFL draft Friday night. Claypool was the 17th player taken in the round, 49th overall.



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49ers acquire Pro Bowl LT Trent Williams among multiple NFL Draft Day trades

The San Francisco 49ers acquired one Pro Bowl left tackle and said goodbye to another as they traded for LT Trent Williams.



  • Sports/Football/NFL

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Tampa mayor offers lighthearted apology to star QB Tom Brady

Mayor Jane Castor has issued a letter of apology after Tampa didn't exactly give the best of welcomes to one of its newest and most famous residents when NFL superstar Tom Brady was ejected from a downtown park while working out.



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Patriots not drafting QB after Brady departure 'wasn't by design', says Belichick

New England head coach Bill Belichick said not taking a quarterback in the Patriots' first post-Tom Brady draft "wasn't by design."



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Canadian NFLer Duvernay-Tardif joining medical front line in Quebec

A Quebec-born Super Bowl champion is making the move from the offensive line to the medical front line.



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Legendary Dolphins head coach Don Shula dies at 90

Don Shula, who won the most games of any NFL coach and led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in league history, died Monday at his home, the team said. He was 90.



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B.C. government extends deadline on Victoria tent city closures

The province has extended the deadline for people to leave tent cities in Victoria until May 20. The original deadline was May 9 for campers to be out of Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park as well as Topaz and Pandora parks in Victoria.



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B.C. confirms 1 additional death, 29 new cases of COVID-19

Provincial health officers say they have confirmed 29 new cases of the virus and one additional death from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.



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P.E.I. grandmother keeps snowball in her freezer for more than a decade

It's not often people want to hang onto winter, but a Summerside, P.E.I. woman has kept a piece of it in her freezer for over a decade: a snowball in a ziplock bag.



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How a $5 roadside tortoise turned into a Halifax icon

Gus has been captivating visitors to the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History for more than seven decades.



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Mickey Mouse display earns Canadian balloon twisting team 5 world awards

A team of Canadian balloon twisters earned five awards at the World Balloon Convention in California this month for their Mickey and Minnie Mouse as Romeo and Juliet design.



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While in His presence - Ecuador

The figures of impact were impressive during a recent medical outreach in the indigenous region of Guamote in Ecuador. But only because He showed up.




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From rickshaws to the Gospel - Bangladesh

Winning a rickshaw in a race sponsored by the OM sports ministry team in Bangladesh changes Anwar's life and his family's life.




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On the road throughout Europe - International

Throughout the year Bus4Life provides encouragement to local pastors and OM teams in Eastern Europe, partnering with them to share the Gospel.




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The headman's story - Zambia

Dimas, the headman of a small village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, shares about the challenges of being a headman and Christian.




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Woman at centre of deadly drugstore stabbing could be allowed to live in community: review board

A woman found not criminally responsible for fatally stabbing a stranger in the heart at the makeup counter of a Toronto drugstore five years ago could ultimately be allowed to live in the community if the mental health facility where she is staying decides she can, the Ontario Review Board says.



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2 dead after fire guts Brampton house

A third person was rescued off the roof of the burning building after the house went up in flames at about 11 p.m. on Thursday.



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Scammers taking advantage of rising demand for pandemic puppies

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant a spike in demand for puppies and an opportunity for scammers who are charging inflated prices for dogs not ready to be adopted out or with missing or bogus papers.



  • News/Canada/Toronto

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Read the stories of this week's CBC Toronto 'Front-line Heroes'

CBC Toronto wants to introduce you to all the people making a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic through a series we're calling Front-line Heroes.



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Former provincial lab on Huron Church Road could have tested for COVID-19

Located on Huron Church Road, the lab was one of 12 such facilities run by the Ontario government, and processed tests for diseases like tuberculosis and West Nile virus. But it was demolished to make way for the Herb Gray Parkway.



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Lambton County resident pleads with officials to address dangerous intersection

Lambton County resident Joeleen DeGurse-MacDonald still has memories of the fatal vehicle collisions she's witnessed at the intersection of Kimball Road and Petrolia Line. Now in her 50s, DeGurse-MacDonald said she vividly remembers an accident that took place when she was only five-years-old, eating a pear picked from an orchard on her family's farm at the northest intersection of Kimball and Petrolia. 



  • News/Canada/Windsor

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Community spread blamed for over half of Ontario's new COVID-19 cases, 'perplexing' top doctor

After several days in which fewer than 400 cases of COVID-19 were added to the provincial tally, Friday's report was up again, with 477 new cases reported.



  • News/Canada/Toronto

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OPP officer punished after delays allow driver to evade prosecution in fatal Kingsville crash

An Essex County OPP officer has been slapped with a cut in pay because of "inexplicable" investigative delays into a fatal collision, allowing the at-fault driver to "evade criminal prosecution."



  • News/Canada/Windsor

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Windsor has highest jobless rate in Canada for fourth month straight

Windsor's unemployment rate soared even higher in April, according to Statistics Canada numbers released Friday. 



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Trump administration shelves expert guidelines on reopening U.S. economy

Documents created by the top disease investigators in the U.S. meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as mass transit, day care centres and restaurants during the still-raging pandemic have been shelved by the Trump administration.




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Madagascar ships unproven herbal remedy for COVID-19 to several African nations

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organization that its efficacy is unproven.