Sarah Mills: Trade barriers should be top priority for Carney, premiers
As Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with Canada's premiers in Saskatoon on Monday, Sarah Mills says the focus at the tab...
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Ontario boosts autism budget to $779M, advocates question where money is going
TORONTO - Ontario is increasing funding for its autism program to $779 million this year, the government announced in this week's budget, but advocates say it's not yet clear exactly where that money ...
May 16, 2025
N.S. health minister admits 'growing pains' with new free-parking policy at hospitals
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue. At the big hospitals in Halifax, tensions are growing as unautho...
May 16, 2025
Alberta legislature adjourns after passing 19 bills, both parties lose caucus members
EDMONTON - The spring sitting of Alberta's legislature began under the cloud of a health-care contract corruption scandal and ended with a firestorm of renewed separatist angst. The sitting, which wra...
May 15, 2025
Partner of Quebec man who received MAID after bedsores says hospital ignored her
MONTREAL - The partner of a man who received a medically assisted death after developing a severe bedsore in a Quebec hospital says medical staff didn't listen to her. Sylvie Brosseau spoke outside th...
May 15, 2025 Sylvie Brosseau shows a photo of her herself with her husband at the courthouse in Montreal on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Brosseau's partner, Normand Meunier requested medical assistance in dying last year after getting pressure sores during a stay in the St-Jerome hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Family in B.C. festival tragedy celebrates small victories on long road to recovery
VANCOUVER - Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, after he suffered devastating injuries in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver last month. On Monday...
May 15, 2025
Montreal Innu man's 'inhumane' death shows need for more homeless services: coroner
MONTREAL - The death of an unhoused Innu man whose body was found inside a portable toilet in Montreal was avoidable, a Quebec coroner said Thursday, highlighting the need for additional resources to ...
May 15, 2025
Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment's rep...
May 14, 2025
Supporters converge on B.C. ostrich farm as food agency confirms cull of flock
Operators of a British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled said Wednesday that dozens of supporters have converged on the scene, as the federal agency in charge of the opera...
May 14, 2025
California governor outlines $12 billion deficit and freeze on immigrant health program access
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California is facing a $12 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help close by freezing enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants living in Ca...
May 14, 2025
B.C. opioid rules were to reduce overdoses. But they cut cancer patients' pain meds
Rule changes designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2016 inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients by reducing their access to pain killers, a new study has fo...
May 14, 2025
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