As students in most of Canada enjoy their last few moments of
their summer break, students in British Columbia still don't know when
they will be returning to the classroom.
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Melissa Hudson says 30 years of experience in the Toronto
business world hasn't been enough to land her a job, despite numerous
call-backs on her resume for first-round interviews.
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Fourteen weeks have passed since B.C.'s more than 40,000
unionized teachers walked off the job in a rotating and then full-scale
strike last June, ejecting half-a-million children from classes about
two weeks before summer break.
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Driven by rising land prices and an enterprising spirit,
some Orthodox Mennonite families have relocated into rural areas of
Canada in search of new opportunities that they hope will support future
generations.
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There is an increasing Canadian presence in the Australian
drug scene, where traffickers brave harsh enforcement for large profits
in a 'high-risk, high-reward' market, authorities say.
A rescued false killer whale calf has been moved to a larger
pool at the Vancouver Aquarium, six weeks after it was found stranded
and near death on a Vancouver Island beach.
More than 50 years after a Saskatchewan uranium mill that is
a key part of Canada's nuclear history closed, heavy machinery is once
again rumbling across the remote northern corner of the province.
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