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CANADA: Oldest living Habs champ talks hockey from condo overlooking Barrie's lakeshore

CANADA: Oldest living Habs champ talks hockey from condo overlooking Barrie's lakeshore

Ahead of tonight's Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final, BarrieToday sits down with Paul Masnick, who won the Cup with Montreal in 1953
CANADA: Peaceful protest to raise residential school awareness held outside Northern Ontario church

CANADA: Peaceful protest to raise residential school awareness held outside Northern Ontario church

'It’s not an attack on one individual church. We want this to go higher,' says one of the protesters
ONTARIO: More lawsuits pending over fake Norval Morrisseau art

ONTARIO: More lawsuits pending over fake Norval Morrisseau art

Lawyer Jonathan Sommer wants to hear from others who want to join an action
CANADA: Documents detail outreach, take-up of little-used federal victims benefit

CANADA: Documents detail outreach, take-up of little-used federal victims benefit

The Liberals overhauled the program following a critical review of the benefit by a federal watchdog in 2018 that showed administrative costs far outstripped the amounts paid to parents
CANADA: New research highlights an early childhood educator recruitment crisis

CANADA: New research highlights an early childhood educator recruitment crisis

In expanding early learning and care, Canada must addresses a current crisis is retaining and recruiting educators
ONTARIO: Free app offering a tour of Francophone destinations to promote tourism in the North

ONTARIO: Free app offering a tour of Francophone destinations to promote tourism in the North

Available in both English and French, Destination Northern Ontario app offers ten points of interest in nine cities with interactive maps and videos 
OPINION: Five education issues exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic

OPINION: Five education issues exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic

School disruptions have exposed the fragility of the modern, centralized, bureaucratic education state, education prof says
CANADA: Country's tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S.

CANADA: Country's tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S.

'They don't teach this in schools,' says prominent U.S. Indigenous activist. 'Now we're no longer able to hide from those truths.'
CANADA: Black women entrepreneurs lack access to capital, mentorship, report says

CANADA: Black women entrepreneurs lack access to capital, mentorship, report says

The study, produced by Toronto-based market research firm Pitch Better, is based on an online survey of more than 1,500 Black women-led for-profit and non-profit businesses in Canada
BEYOND LOCAL: Canadians must be savvy in navigating COVID-19 expertise, observers say

BEYOND LOCAL: Canadians must be savvy in navigating COVID-19 expertise, observers say

While access to a wide variety of sources and less institutional gatekeeping are positive overall, the sheer volume of information can contribute to confusion, particularly when it is changing so quickly, said Tim Sly, an epidemiologist and risk communication expert at Ryerson University