Category: Canada

LIVE CHAT: Are your vet bills too high?

Categories: Business, Canada, Community

Tags: Business, Canada, Community

marshallthebulldog-220.jpgChat live with CBC's Marketplace co-host Erica Johnson and Hemopet founder Jean Dodds about the upcoming season of the show and the role Marshall the bulldog played in the first episode.

Memories of Loblaws 'food guru' Dave Nichol flood social media

Categories: Business, Canada, Community

Tags: Community, Storify

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Dave Nichol, the man who was the face of the Loblaws grocery chain for decades, died on Sunday just days after his 73rd birthday.

As the news broke of the death, Canadians began their outpouring of affection for the nation's favourite grocer.

Team Canada or Petro-Canada? Hockey fans react to leaked 'Olympic jerseys'

Categories: Canada, Community, Sports

Tags: Community, Community Reaction, Sports

Canada sweatersA photo of what is purported to be the three sweaters Team Canada will be wearing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi was posted to Reddit yesterday and Canadians are posting their reactions all over the internet. 

SARS doctor Donald Low video ignites assisted-suicide debate

Categories: Canada, Community, Health

Tags: Canada, Community Reaction, Health

SARSdoctor-220.jpgA brain tumour may have taken Dr. Donald Low's life, but some of his last words are still spreading across Canada as thousands of people watch his posthumous plea for assisted suicide, sparking furious debate.

Canadians remember Ben Johnson's tainted race, 25 years later

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ben-johnson-220.jpgCanadians are sharing their memories of Ben Johnson's golden 100-metre race 25 years ago, and the disgrace days later when he was stripped of his Olympic medal after a positive drug test. 

Jail B.C. girl for texting nude photo of other girl, say CBCNews.ca readers

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texting-220.jpgA B.C. girl who is facing child pornography charges after texting a naked photo of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend should be charged and even sent to jail, argue many CBCNews.ca readers.

Facebook to blame for Rehtaeh Parsons dating ad, say CBCNews.ca readers

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parsons-220-2.jpg Facebook is at fault for a dating ad featuring Rehtaeh Parsons appearing on the site, although the issue of blame is not black and white, according to CBCNews.ca readers.

bohemian-gravity-220.jpgA physics graduate student at Montreal's McGill University has created an a capella version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody with the lyrics changed to references to the finer points of string theory. 

Firefighters' career-ending tweets spark debate

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Tags: Canada, Community, Community Reaction, social media, Storify, Toronto, Twitter

SalesReaders on CBCNews.ca are polarized in their reaction to a Toronto story about firefighters being fired after sexist remarks were posted on Twitter and other social media. 

Many comments on CBCNews.ca said that the dismissal was too harsh a punishment for posting offensive tweets, but others said it was appropriate.

Waitress fired after stopping drunk driver is praised online

Categories: Canada, Community

Tags: Canada, community, Community Reaction, Quebec

in-220-keys-drink.jpgA waitress from Quebec is receiving a lot of praise online after she said that her intervention in preventing a drunk customer from driving home led to her being fired the next week.