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Sask. offering new online therapy course to help parents with mental health
A new online therapy course for expecting and postpartum parents is aimed at addressing their mental health concerns. The Wellbeing Course for New and Expecting Parents is a program offered through th...
May 07, 2025 Dr. Heather Hadjistavropoulos, the director of the University of Regina's Online Therapy Unit, said she believes the new course will help bridge the gap in care for some parents. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
Study finds no evidence to support New Brunswick's mystery brain disease
FREDERICTON - There is no evidence to support claims of a mystery brain disease in New Brunswick, says a new study that suggests the media may have played a role in feeding patients' fears. Published ...
May 07, 2025
Ontario health minister defends province's approach amid worsening measles outbreak
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones defended on Wednesday the province's approach to the measles outbreak as new infections increase sharply and criticism mounts. The latest p...
May 07, 2025
Quebec to set 150-metre limit between schools and supervised injection sites
QUBEC - The Quebec government has tabled legislation that would ensure a minimum 150-metre distance between supervised injection sites and schools and daycares. Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant...
May 06, 2025
Under pressure, Quebec finds money to pay for renovations to major Montreal hospital
QUBEC - The Quebec government says it has found the funds to begin much-needed repairs this year to a major Quebec hospital, following severe criticism from the opposition. The Coalition Avenir Qubec ...
May 06, 2025
'We will emerge stronger': Legislator praises resilience after festival attack
We must "continue to wrap our arms around" the Filipino community as it deals with the burden of the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy that killed 11 people, British Columbia legislator Mable Elmore said on Monda...
May 06, 2025 MLA Mable Elmore wipes away tears on Sunday, April 27, 2025, while visiting a memorial near the site of an attack where a vehicle was driven into crowd at a street festival on Saturday night in Vancouver. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
Alberta ramps up measles vaccination push as 3 children in intensive care
EDMONTON - Alberta's government says three children are in intensive care in hospital after contracting measles. A health ministry spokesperson declined to disclose their ages, citing privacy concerns...
May 05, 2025
Faqiri family demands answers on implementing coroner inquest recommendations
TORONTO - The family of a mentally ill man who died in a provincial jail is demanding to know if the Ontario government has implemented any recommendations that came out of a coroner's inquest, saying...
May 05, 2025
A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
VANCOUVER - In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. "Br...
May 03, 2025
Q & A: Black Lives Matter Canada co-founder Sandy Hudson on her new book, 'Defund'
TORONTO - Sandy Hudson's new book on police abolition comes just ahead of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, and while much has changed since then, the urgency with which many of the ...
May 02, 2025
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