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Manitoba announces more budget red ink as spending jumps in health, wildfire fight
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government ran a higher-than-expected deficit in the last fiscal year and is on track to miss its target again this year, according to documents released Friday by the Finance ...
Sep 26, 2025
Alberta to legislate authority not to enforce international agreements Canada signs
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to ignore international agreements signed by Ottawa. The future legislation is l...
Sep 26, 2025
Stay of ostrich cull in southeast B.C. an ongoing potential health risk, CFIA says
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the "ongoing delay" in carrying out the cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm presents "potential animal and human health risks." The agency said in a s...
Sep 26, 2025
Alberta justice minister told to legislate new safeguards, oversight of MAID
EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister has been directed to introduce new legislation on medical assistance in dying, or MAID, that would give the government greater control and oversight of the progra...
Sep 25, 2025
Fact File: COVID-19 fuelled drop in life expectancy, contrary to podcast claims
In September, a clip from a January 2024 episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast resurfaced online. Rogan's guest, the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, claimed Canada experienced an "unprecedented" dr...
Sep 25, 2025
Police probe threats of violence aimed at businesses linked to B.C. ostrich cull
EDGEWOOD, B.C. - Mounties in British Columbia say they are investigating "escalating threats of violence" directed at businesses linked or thought to be associated with a cull of some 400 ostriches, w...
Sep 25, 2025 Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the Canadian Food Agency prepared to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. The farm has since been granted an interim stay. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Canadian virus research hub in Saskatoon turns 50 amid concerns over U.S. funding
SASKATOON - One of Canada's premier vaccine centres celebrates its 50th birthday this week, but researchers say it comes amid unease over U.S. policy changes and funding cuts that threaten to upend th...
Sep 25, 2025 Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) researchers demonstrate work in a Containment Level 2 lab during a tour of the building on the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Sask. on Thursday, August 21, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
16 hospitalized, 105 sickened in pistachio-linked salmonella outbreak
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says the number of people confirmed sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios has risen to 105. The outbreak update issued Wednesday reports 2...
Sep 24, 2025
New Brunswick health network apologizes for use of restraints at psychiatric facility
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's francophone health network is expressing remorse for the way its staff used restraints and seclusion rooms at an adult psychiatric facility in the province's north. Sbast...
Sep 24, 2025
Alberta Premier Smith dismisses critics who say she's misleading public on trans law
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told critics of a law restricting health care for transgender youth Wednesday they need to read up on puberty, while Alberta doctors say she's being condescen...
Sep 24, 2025
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