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Canada loses measles elimination status, causing entire region to lose designation
TORONTO - Canada has officially lost the measles elimination status it had held since 1998, causing the entire region of the Americas to also lose the designation. The status is granted and revoked by...
Nov 10, 2025
Doctors gather to protest physician payment bill at Bell Centre
MONTREAL - More than 10,000 demonstrators descended on Montreal's Bell Centre on Sunday to demand the suspension of a new law that changes how doctors in the province are paid. Organized by a quartet ...
Nov 09, 2025
B.C. ostrich farm is 'ground zero for change' as family reels from shooting cull
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - With the flock of several hundred ostriches on the British Columbia farm co-owned by her mother shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,...
Nov 08, 2025
Gunshots herald ostrich cull after police limit access to British Columbia farm
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Gunshots rang out at a British Columbia ostrich farm as a Canadian Food Inspection Agency operation to cull hundreds of the birds got underway. The shots were comi...
Nov 07, 2025 Ostriches are corralled inside of a cull enclosure near the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the farm’s appeal against an order to cull more than 300 of its ostriches on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
New Brunswick hospital ordered to pay man $5K because staff didn't speak French
A New Brunswick court has ordered an anglophone health network in the province to pay $5,000 to a Moncton man for violating his language rights. Paul Ouellet launched a lawsuit against Horizon Health ...
Nov 06, 2025
Parliamentary committee revises order to share federal grant applicant data
A parliamentary committee has amended a controversial order that seeks 25 years' worth of data on researchers who applied for health and science grants. The Standing Committee on Health and Research h...
Nov 06, 2025
Winnipeg detention facility for highly intoxicated people to open in two weeks: Kinew
WINNIPEG - A facility the Manitoba government is spearheading to detain people who are intoxicated on methamphetamines and other long-lasting drugs for up to three days is slated to begin accepting pe...
Nov 06, 2025
Gunshots ring out at B.C. ostrich farm as cull moves ahead
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Numerous gunshots rang out in the night at a British Columbia ostrich farm, punctuated by shouts of "Murderers!" and "Stop!" as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency...
Nov 06, 2025
N.S. patients waited for more than 70 hours in the ER for hospital admission
HALIFAX - An NDP member of the Nova Scotia legislature says some patients at a hospital waited more than 70 hours in the emergency room before they were admitted. In a letter to the health minister, P...
Nov 05, 2025
Over 5,000 researchers oppose order to share 25 years of federal grant applicant data
TORONTO - More than 5,000 researchers have signed an open letter pushing back against a parliamentary committee order that they say draws parallels with the U.S. government's crackdown on equity, dive...
Nov 05, 2025
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