Category: Canada

Are unpaid internships worth your time?

Categories: Canada, Community, World

Tags: CBC Live Online, community

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This week on CBC Live Online, host Lauren O'Neil will work through the arguments for and against unpaid internships with a panel of special guests.

Are these opportunities categorically wrong? Or does it make sense to work for free if it means getting a proverbial foot in the door?

Readers react to Trudeau's speaking fees, charities and the PMO

Categories: Canada, Community, Politics

Tags: Canada, Community, Community Reaction, Politics

TrudeauThe CBC Community has had an enormous response to our coverage of the Prime Minister's Office accusation that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is profiting on the backs of charities that book him to speak, and to Trudeau's offer to refund the money

CBCNews.ca readers have written more than 4,600 comments on those two stories alone.

Divorced Edmonton couple splits family home

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: community

si-220-hand-holding.jpgMonica McGrath and Kent Kirkland may have their differences, but the divorced Edmontonians still agree that their young children should live under one roof.

That conviction inspired the pair to construct a unique home: a duplex with two separate sides joined by a hallway accessible to both.

Father's Day 2013: Here are your best lessons from dad

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, community

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For Father's Day this year we asked you to share some of the most memorable life lessons your dear old dad taught you.

The messages you submitted ranged from the strictly practical to sweet and heartfelt. Here are some of our favourites. 

#AsCanadianAs 'not winning the Stanley Cup'

Categories: Canada, Community, Sports

Tags: Callout, Canada, Community, Community Reaction, Photos, Sports, video

as-canadian-as-rink-220.jpgWhen we asked the CBC Community to come up with a way to end the saying "As Canadian as...," we expected to see "hockey" a lot. 

You didn't disappoint and your hockey-themed entries did our national game proud. But one in particular cut us to the quick. 

National Aboriginal Day: Tell us who inspires you

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, Community

si-220-nad-canada.jpgFriday is National Aboriginal Day, a day to celebrate this country's unique and diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

It's also a chance to celebrate their many achievements. Help CBCNews.ca celebrate National Aboriginal Day by telling us about the accomplished aboriginal members in your community.

New Heritage Minute spotlights First Nations warriors

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, community

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A little-known story about a group of First Nations warriors who were instrumental in the battle of Queenston Heights has been released to mark National Aboriginal History Month.

The Historica-Dominion Institute launched its new Minute, only the second in nearly a decade, on Wednesday.

100-year-old great grandma graduated from UofT on this day

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: community

si-220-plaut.jpgOn this day in 1990, a 100-year-old great-grandmother named Selma Plaut received an honorary degree from the University of Toronto.

Do you know anyone who completed a major project or goal later in life?
hadfield-drawing-220.jpgAstronaut Chris Hadfield announced his retirement from the Canadian Space Agency on Monday, during his first visit to Canada after returning from space on May 13. 

Canadians and people around the world responded with an outpouring of good wishes for him and suggestions for his next career. 

40% of 'designated drivers' drinking, U.S. study finds

Categories: Canada, Community, World

Tags: U.S., World

si-220-DD.jpgA study published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs found that roughly 40 per cent of the designated drivers they interviewed had drunk enough to register on a breathalyzer test  - and 20 per cent had had enough to "significantly impair" their driving.

Do you trust your designated driver?