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MARKETPLACE Debt, pain and more surgery: The true cost of gastric band procedure hyped as weight-loss fix
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The commercial made it seem so easy — "You're in, you're out and you're shopping … what could be better?" But Barbara Litt's gastric band surgery couldn't have gone worse. It left her in debt and in pain. And she's not alone.
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$500M recouped worldwide from tax cheats due to Panama Papers — but none of it in Canada
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Governments around the world say they've recovered a combined $500 million in unpaid taxes thanks to the Panama Papers leak in 2016. But none of that was in Canada, where the CRA says it will be at least 2½ more years before it can announce anything.
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CBC Investigates Theatre star Albert Schultz steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
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Albert Schultz is taking a leave of absence as artistic director of the Toronto-based Soulpepper Theatre Company and says he will "vehemently" defend himself against allegations from four women who have accused him of sexual harassment.
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CBC Investigates The tiny Nova Scotia towns with lots of politicians, but not many people
CBC News has tallied up the number of mayors, wardens and councillors in Nova Scotia and the cost of governing 50 separate municipalities. Some elected officials represent thousands residents. Others just dozens.
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CBC Investigates Marc Butler nearly died as a defibrillator lay nearby. It's one of 100s still not registered
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Nova Scotia's new system allows 911 dispatchers to alert to people with defibrillators of a nearby cardiac arrest. The problem: Many of the life-saving devices in the province aren't registered.
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CBC Investigates Lobster fisherman defends maligned practice of 'controlling agreements'
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Lobster fisherman Hubert Saulnier speaks out about being in a so-called controlling agreement, a practice DFO has been trying to break.
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PARADISE PAPERS Millions of Canadians have pension money offshore — without knowing it
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Seven of the country's so-called Big 8 pension funds, representing more than 25 million workers, have used tax havens as they invest Canadians' retirement savings, a CBC investigation reveals.
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Should journalists warn interview subjects of potential online blowback? One expert thinks so
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Expert predicts that in the era of online trolls, the risks associated with speaking to the press will grow — especially for women and minorities.
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CBC Investigates B.C. victims of government-funded brainwashing experiments want apology
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Two B.C. residents are speaking out about the price they paid for brainwashing experiments done by researchers at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s.
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FIFTH ESTATE Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says
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Forty years after revelations that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency funded brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting Canadians, the Trudeau government is continuing a pattern of silencing the victims, a lawyer for one of the families says.
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- Debt, pain and more surgery: The true cost of gastric band procedure hyped as weight-loss fix
- $500M recouped worldwide from tax cheats due to Panama Papers — but none of it in Canada
- Theatre star Albert Schultz steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
- The tiny Nova Scotia towns with lots of politicians, but not many people
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- Debt, pain and more surgery: The true cost of gastric band procedure hyped as weight-loss fix
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- Fruit flies can taste calcium: Does that mean humans can?
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