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Cord blood bank claims all samples destroyed, hasn’t told clients

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Cord blood bank claims all samples destroyed, hasn’t told clients

A Toronto company that charged thousands of Canadian families to store their potentially life-saving stem cells is now claiming in a lawsuit that all samples were destroyed three years ago. But some clients of the Cord Blood Bank of Canada say they were never told that and they were still charged for storage.

CBC Investigates

How a bankrupt college and questionable union spending left electrical workers in the dark

Canada Nfld. & Labrador July 7

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Man whose body was found in septic tank on Alberta farm in 1977 was Sixties Scoop survivor, RCMP say

Canada Edmonton July 1

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Man whose burned body was found in septic tank on Alberta farm identified by DNA 44 years later

Canada Edmonton June 29

THE FIFTH ESTATE

RCMP suspected person leaking secrets had high-level computer access, Ortis investigation search warrants show

The RCMP suspected someone senior in their ranks was offering to spill secrets but still didn't know the identity of the alleged leaker for several months after they first learned confidential information about investigations had been compromised, according to court documents that ultimately led to the arrest of intelligence analyst Cameron Ortis.

CBC Investigates

More protections needed against police no-knock raids, lawyers say

A number of recent cases of police raids in Canada that went off the rails point to the need to reconsider how they’re done, some legal experts say. That could mean everything from Criminal Code amendments to requiring officers to video-record their operations.

CBC Investigates

Police smash couple's living room window with armoured vehicle in drug raid that finds nothing

Looking for a drug den, police smashed their way into an Alberta couple's home firing tear gas. But their evidence "amounted to a hill of beans," one lawyer says. No-knock raids like this are executed hundreds of times a year in Canada — though some police forces have mostly abandoned the practice.

Madeline McNair

CBC Investigates

Some prisoners not offered COVID-19 shots until months after general public, CBC analysis finds

Valérie Ouellet

Man hires paralegal to handle his divorce — discovers he's still married

Rosa Marchitelli

Canada Edmonton June 14

The Fifth Estate

Wealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore 'sham'

Politics June 4

UPS shipping bungle keeps oxygen device from family sick with COVID-19

Rosa Marchitelli

Canada Calgary May 18

CBC Investigates

AI has a racism problem, but fixing it is complicated, say experts

CBC Investigates

Co-founder of illegal CAFE pot shops dies in Mexico

Canada Toronto May 15

CBC Investigates

Ottawa Senators owner took Caribbean superyacht vacation during pandemic — and it went horribly, lawsuits say

Canada Ottawa May 14

CBC Investigates

Getting few answers in brother's workplace death, woman's persistence prompts fresh look at case

Elizabeth McMillan

Canada Nova Scotia May 12

85-year-old with Alzheimer's sold Bell products and services he can't use after visit to The Source

Business May 10

Former player details alleged sexual assault by junior hockey coach Bernie Lynch

Madeline McNair

Customer records 3 Bell reps offering same deal, then is told he can't have it

Rosa Marchitelli

Victims of Ponzi scheme call for reopening of probe into offshore money transfers

Harvey Cashore, Frédéric Zalac, Paul Émile d’Entremont, Mark Kelley, Sannah Choi, Lynette Fortune

CBC Investigates

CRA has nearly 1,200 complaints of companies misusing COVID money, but has issued no fines

Madeline McNair

Business April 19

Woman with dementia locked into 10-year home-heating contract — with a $15K lien on her property

Rosa Marchitelli

Business April 19

CBC Investigates

Ontario's pharmacy vaccines harder to find in some areas with high COVID rates

Dexter McMillan

Canada April 16

Courier giant DHL padded own pockets with 'hidden fees,' class action alleges

Business April 15

CRA has found 35 cases of tax dodging in the Panama Papers leak, 5 years later

'Try not to stop and start' while driving, Honda tells owners stuck with cars not fit for winter

Rosa Marchitelli

Business March 30

CBC Investigates

CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash

Canada March 19

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Genetic genealogy pushes Toronto detectives close to identifying killer in 2 cold cases from 1983

Canada March 18

Rogers fines 91-year-old woman unable to return equipment due to lockdown

Rosa Marchitelli

Business March 15

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