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Alice Munro’s alma mater says it’s considering how to move forward after the Nobel laureate’s daughter revealed she was sexually abused by her stepfather and Munro chose to stay with him.

The whooping cough is spreading in Quebec. As of Saturday, the Quebec health ministry documented over 6,000 cases of the infectious pulmonary disease since the start of the year.

Thousands of Ticketmaster users may have had their data compromised in a security breach. Ticketmaster says it discovered unauthorized activity on an isolated cloud database hosted by a third-party data services provider between April 2 and May 18. The company…The post Ticketmaster says data security incident may affect users’ personal details appeared first on Canadian Underwriter.

The union says its pressure tactics will not have an impact on the health of animals.

Maple Leaf Foods (MFI) is spinning off its pork business into a separate publicly traded company as it tries to turnaround its poor-performing stock. In a news release, Toronto-based Maple Leaf said it is spinning off its pork division so that it can focus on its more profitable packaged goods business that includes ready-to-serve foods such as Ready Crisp bacon.Under the plan, Maple Leaf stockholders will receive shares in the new company, while Maple Leaf will retain a 20% ownership stake in the still unnamed pork company. Additionally, the new pork company will continue to provide Maple Leaf…

The LCBO says it has scrapped a plan to temporarily reopen five stores to allow bar and restaurant owners to buy alcohol amid the ongoing strike after the Crown corporation said the union threatened to picket at these locations.

Federal officials are set to say how much more likely Eastern Canada’s heat wave was because of human-caused climate change.

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The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation could see its budget slashed by $16 million.

The number of young people donating blood in Quebec has been declining for the past five years, a challenge for Héma-Québec, which is continuously working to fill its blood bank.