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Security review needed after Inuk women highway deaths near lodge in Quebec: coroner
MONTREAL - A Montreal-area Inuit health centre should review its security measures in light of the deaths of two patients who were struck and killed on highways within a 24-hour span in 2022, a Quebec...
Jul 04, 2024
Alberta town in health crisis must pay to keep clinic open as doctor roster dwindles
EDMONTON - In Hinton, Alta., an industrial town in the shadows of the Rockies, residents left without a doctor to write prescriptions face a three-hour drive to Edmonton to try their luck at a walk-in...
Jul 04, 2024
First Nation seeks halt to Yukon mining after failure at gold mine
MAYO, YUKON - A First Nation in central Yukon is demanding the immediate halt of all mining activity in its traditional territory, and an independent investigation into the recent failure of equipment...
Jul 03, 2024
Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona abortion-rights supporters said Wednesday that they turned in more than double the signatures needed to put the issue on November's ballot in the key swing state. In Nebraska, o...
Jul 03, 2024
With expansion of phone app, Nova Scotia patients can access a suite of health info
HALIFAX - Information on hospital visits and other medical records is now available for Nova Scotians through the province's mobile phone application called YourHealthNS. The province is expanding acc...
Jul 03, 2024
What you need to know about Saskatchewan's first urgent care centre
Saskatchewan's first urgent care centre is finally open. The $18.7 million facility is currently operating seven days a week at 1320 Albert Street in Regina, and is open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. In th...
Jul 02, 2024 The Urgent Care Centre is officially open and ready to accept patients. (Nicole Garn/980 CJME)
Five years after historic tobacco ruling, 'nothing has changed'
TORONTO - In the span of a few short years, Jean-Luc Duval lost two of the most important people in his life to lung cancer. His wife Monique was diagnosed on her birthday and died on July 3, 2005 - t...
Jul 02, 2024
'War in the operating room': Ukrainian eye surgeons to learn at University of Calgary
CALGARY - Some scars can't be hidden. It's why Dr. Olga Denysiuk is coming to Canada from the Ukraine war zone to learn more about saving and rebuilding smashed and damaged eyes. "I'm doing everything...
Jul 01, 2024
Are you proud to be Canadian? Poll suggests that feeling is dwindling, for some
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the vast majority of Canadians are proud of their home and native land, but our sense of national pride is lower than it was a few years ago. Polling firm Leger surveyed 1...
Jun 30, 2024
Hope Air touches down in Regina for charity event
A one-of-a-kind charity touched down in Regina this past week. Hope Air hosted its Give Hope Wings event at the Regina Airport on Wednesday, bringing together pilots and patients to tell their stories...
Jun 30, 2024 "We've been around since 1986 but over the last several years we've been growing quite significantly," said Jon Collins, chief development officer of Hope Air. (Hope Air/Facebook)
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Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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