Digital and broadcast news reporter, producer and feature writer with more than 15 years of experience working in Canada and Australia. Currently working on The Pit podcast for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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A rural couple makes an unusual discovery under a shed and is called to testify in court. Greg forces his own lawyers to make a difficult decision. The trial brings more surprises as the seventh anniversary of Sheree's disappearance passes by.
There's been a spike in deaths in Australia linked to a lethal substance frequently discussed on the offshore forum. Some of those who've died spent time on the site, which experts say has guided suicidal people toward death instead of away from it.
Sarah* says the time her husband Peter* was violent with her was a shocking, one-off incident. She did not want to separate from him, but she says the government made that choice for her when it tried to deport him.
A West Australian coroner remains "concerned" and "troubled" about police use of a physical restraint that has been linked to deaths in custody, recommending even stricter limits as part of findings into the death of Noongar man Roderick Narrier in Perth.
The use of the Liquor Control Act to ban vegan protester Tash Peterson from every licensed venue in Western Australia has been described by legal experts as an "overreach" and "misuse" of the law, in a state with no human rights legislation through which to challenge it.
John and Susan's son has been in jail for four years, but not because he was convicted of a crime. He is in custody under a controversial law the West Australian government promised to reform urgently in 2016, but six years later it remains unchanged.
When Anam Irshad travelled from Pakistan to Australia, she sacrificed the luggage space she had for clothing to make room for her pharmacy books.
Nearly six years after her disappearance, Sheree Fertuck's husband is on trial for murder in Saskatoon. Today Front Burner explores the controversial undercover police sting at the heart of the case. Nearly six years after Sheree Fertuck's disappearance near Kenaston, Sask., a murder trial is underway for her husband in Saskatoon.
The text message came to Shelby Hnatuk's cellphone at 10:12 a.m. CST on April 12, 2016. It was from Mekayla Bali, a classmate at Sacred Heart High School in Yorkton, Sask. Bali, who was 16 at the time, had sent the message from somewhere else in Yorkton, a quiet prairie town.
For months, CBC Saskatoon reporter Alicia Bridges was granted special access to the work of Canadian scientists racing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Today on Front Burner, their trials and tribulations and what it could mean for Canadians' access to one.
By ALICIA BRIDGESMay 30, 2017 With one push on the piston of a syringe, crystal methamphetamine made Debbie Roberts's world a darker place. She thought she was taking another drug, Ritalin, the day she went blind. But someone must have swapped it out while she was in the washroom.
Brenda Duhaime tries to avoid spending the night in her own home. She's been staying with family off and on since August 2017. That's when her husband, Robert Duhaime, was found unconscious on their living room floor. He had taken his own life.
It was a case in point nobody wanted to make. At a meeting calling for urgent action on suicides in northern Saskatchewan on Wednesday, one of the guests had to cancel to help an 11-year-old girl who had overdosed in a nearby community.
Workers in communities all over Saskatchewan say they have been bullied and harassed on the job. Some expressed concerns for their physical safety. Others are facing financial trouble after long periods on medical leave. Some left their jobs. Others left town.
Sheree Fertuck was last seen driving away from her family farm in a gravel truck near Kenaston, Sask. 80 kilometres south of Saskatoon, on Dec. 7, 2015. While her truck was discovered abandoned near the pit, Sheree was nowhere to be found.
The day that Alice Tataryn asked for medical assistance to end her life and avoid a painful death, her daughter Susan Tataryn showed her a letter she had written to the Office of the Chief Coroner in Saskatchewan. Alice was in a Prince Albert, Sask., hospital dying from terminal lung cancer that had spread into her skull, liver, spine and collarbone.
Eleven-year-old Ava Walls had a dream that her grandma, Monica Goulet, walked out of an operating room in a beautiful, bedazzled dress from Hawaii. In the dream, Goulet was glowing. She had just received a new kidney. Although the kidney is still a dream, the dress is not.
At least 29 rural municipalities in Saskatchewan have failed to meet the legal requirement to have workplace harassment policies in place for employees. CBC News asked hundreds of rural municipalities across Saskatchewan if they have a harassment policy, which is required underSection 36 of the province's Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and the Saskatchewan Employment Act.
A figure wearing shorts, Crocs and a military backpack strides confidently through the glow of neon lights. A pug trots at his heels. Terry Grady - ex-military member, recovering addict and former monastery resident - is headed into a high-crime, high-poverty neighbourhood on Saskatoon's west side.
When Saskatoon man Ian Longman found out he had HIV, it was two years before he sought treatment. He thought the diagnosis meant certain death, and he didn't know treatment was an option. "I just started hating myself and hating other people and hating what they were saying about me and stuff like that," said Longman.
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools is denying it cancelled a dodgeball fundraiser at one of its schools because it learned the money raised would go towards teaching young men about sexual identity. 'As soon as I mentioned sexual identity, that's when really the conversation flipped and the whole tone really changed.'
The lawyer for Alexa Emerson, who is the subject of a Canada-wide arrest warrant in connection with six white powder scares in Saskatoon, says his client is at a property in rural Alberta for which police already have the address.
The son of an 88-year-old woman recovering after she was hit by a Saskatoon city bus in December says the city needs to do a full transit safety review after another woman was hit at the same intersection Thursday night.
Taxi rides spanning hundreds of kilometres were offered to passengers on more than 40 cancelled bus routes after the Saskatchewan Transportation Company shut down temporarily on Wednesday. The service stopped operating temporarily Wednesday afternoon when the provincial government announced it was winding down the service as part of the provincial budget spending cuts.
The Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley is suing a member of the public who allegedly claimed on a Kununurra-based Facebook page that public servants were stealing money. Shire chief executive Gary Gaffney confirmed last week the authority was taking legal action against a woman he claims defamed three council employees by suggesting they were pocketing money from a Kununurra council facility.
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Scientists are using innovative research to save a tiny bird with a cult following and some fascinating genetic quirks.
GRIZZLY bears and bad hair might not seem to have much in common, but Perth artist Sean Morris seeks intricacy in his subject matter, and he sees it in both. Since completing a media degree at Curtin University, Morris has found his niche in "stripped back" but intricate illustration.