Murray Wood: Arrest in 2001 Saskatoon assault case should make perpetrators worried
A 52-year-old man has been charged in connection with a 2001 sexual assault allegation in Saskatoon. Murray Wood says he...
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1,400 annual deaths linked to wildfire smoke in Canada: climate and health report
A new global health report suggests that every year from 2020 to 2024 about 1,400 deaths in Canada were associated with wildfire smoke pollution as climate change takes an increasing toll on the count...
Oct 28, 2025
Quebec medical specialists announce legal challenge of new compensation law
QUBEC - Medical specialists in Quebec are planning a legal challenge to a recent law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians, which they say violates individual freedoms. The bill, whi...
Oct 28, 2025
Canadian Space Agency unveils four new studies for International Space Station
MONTREAL - Four Canadian-designed studies are set to be conducted aboard the International Space Station, soon to be hosting Albertan astronaut Joshua Kutryk. The studies announced Tuesday during a Ca...
Oct 28, 2025
Health Canada authorizes long-awaited drug to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease
TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Lecanemab is the first medication approved in Canada that targets the buildup of amyloid plaque in t...
Oct 27, 2025
Ontario to boost home care funding by $1 billion
TORONTO - Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy has announced that as part of the upcoming fall economic statement, the province will be increasing home care funding by $1 billion over three yea...
Oct 27, 2025
Canada's status as a country without endemic measles can now be revoked
TORONTO - Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark. The coun...
Oct 27, 2025 Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., Thursday, May 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
Food costs are spiralling. These Canadians are turning to food banks for help
TORONTO - Sticker shock hit hard when single mom Kristina Kennedy saw the sausages she usually buys were $1.50 more than expected. As the sole caregiver to four children, the 40-year-old says price hi...
Oct 27, 2025 Leisa Muthra, who uses food banks, is seen in Toronto in an undated handout photo. Both Food Banks Canada and Daily Bread released reports Monday morning that reveal a deepening reliance on food banks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Leisa Muthra
'Shocking' data shows more treatment needed for youth with opioid use disorder: doctors
TORONTO - An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday says more youth are using opioids and calls for urgent action to provide treatment when they become addicted. "Th...
Oct 26, 2025
U of T emergency fund offers 'lifeline' to researchers facing U.S. funding cuts
TORONTO - The University of Toronto has created an emergency fund to support its researchers who are facing unexpected losses in funding to due cuts and policy changes at U.S. federal research agencie...
Oct 25, 2025
Vancouver authorities should have known festival attacker posed threat, lawsuit says
VANCOUVER - In the weeks before a deadly attack at a Vancouver Filipino festival, suspect Adam Kai-Ji Lo asked to have his antipsychotic medication reduced, even as his mental health was deteriorating...
Oct 24, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 7
8:30 - Today is Green Shirt Day, which falls one day after the eighth anniversary of the Humboldt Bus Crash. The anniver...