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Among the worst marketing blunders of 2019 are the now infamous Peloton commercial, Tesla’s Cybertruck unveiling and Facebook’s attempt to create its own currency. But these missteps created opportunities for other companies to score some major wins.

Toronto renters are bracing themselves for a possible rent hike in 2020. That’s because the Ontario government is allowing landlords to increase rents by 2.2 per cent without needing special permissions.

Alberta scrapped its provincial carbon tax when the United Conservatives came to power. But now, the federal carbon tax will replace it in 2020 -- increasing fuel and heating costs. Though economists say there will be long-term financial incentive from the tax, Albertans remain divided.

An Ontario family is waiting for news that the immigration process that allows parents and grandparents to join their families in Canada will be reopening. Three generations of 87-year-old Beryl Hughes’s family permanently lives in Canada. Hughes wants to stay here with her remaining family.

Demonstrators created mayhem in and around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad today as retaliation for the airstrikes that killed 25 people in Iraq and Syria on Sunday. U.S. marines stationed in Kuwait are now deploying for Iraq.

CBC reporter Susan Ormiston reflects on covering the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

Jessica and Ricardo Batista's 4-month-old daughter, Eva, suffers from muscular atrophy, a potentially deadly genetic disease. The only hope the family has for accessing a dose of the $2.8 million drug needed to treat her is a lottery that offers 100 free doses a year.

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Bear Clan Patrol, an Indigenous grassroots street patrol, opens a chapter in Calgary after a resurgence in Winnipeg. The volunteer-run group aims to keep Indigenous communities safe by picking up needles and connecting with vulnerable people.

Horse-drawn carriages or calèches are banned in Montreal effective Wednesday after horses collapsing from heat, and being hit by cars. Stable owners and calèche drivers have failed to get the ban suspended and now question their future and the horses'.

E-COMM, British Columbia’s biggest 911 dispatch call centre, lists their most annoying 911 calls from the past year, for things like a bad haircut or a broken ATM, in order to remind people how not to use the emergency line.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, the company that made the Canadarm, will move its headquarters back to Canada after a Toronto-based investment firm headed by Jim Balsillie purchased it for $1-billion from U.S. company Maxar Technologies. The company is also responsible for Radarsat Earth-observation satellites.

As more information comes about the man accused of storming into a rabbi’s home and stabbing five people in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, a private security firm receives the OK from local authorities to patrol Jewish neighbourhoods.

Wildfires have plagued parts of Australia for months and continue to grow, destroying homes, endangering wildlife and recently killing a firefighter. At the height of summer, the heat continues to rise and conditions are likely to get worse.

The issue of tenants being evicted before apartments are renovated — and rents increased — is a hot-button issue for renters.

Ahousaht, accessible only by air or boat, is set to get wireless internet and phone service next month for the first time.

The City of Sydney Council gave the green light although fire authorities warned the fireworks could be cancelled if catastrophic conditions are declared.

A gunman opened fire during the service, killing one, wounding another.

Antisemitic threats, vandalism and violence are increasingly commonplace.

A man stabbed and wounded five people as they gathered at a rabbi's home north of New York City to celebrate Hanukkah.

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