Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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27 sickened by salmonella in outbreak linked to dog food and treats
VANCOUVER - The Public Health Agency of Canada says 27 people have been sickened with salmonella, mostly in Alberta and British Columbia, in an outbreak linked to contaminated dog food and treats. The...
Sep 15, 2025
11 hospitalized, 79 sickened in salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios
TORONTO - Eleven people have been hospitalized, and almost 80 salmonella cases have been reported after an outbreak of infections linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing produc...
Sep 15, 2025
Alberta to add citizenship to ID cards to streamline service, protect elections
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is adding mandatory proof of citizenship markers to driver's licences and other forms of identification to streamline services and prevent...
Sep 15, 2025
Touting better HIV treatment, Toronto service organization closing after 42 years
TORONTO - An organization that bills itself as Canada's oldest HIV service agency will close next year, in part due to groundbreaking medical advances that have reduced the need for its services, even...
Sep 11, 2025
Appeals court allows Trump's administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
BOSTON (AP) - A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. A federal judge in J...
Sep 11, 2025
Judge upholds publication ban on B.C. festival attack mental fitness evidence
VANCOUVER - A judge has upheld a ban that prevents media from publishing evidence heard at a mental fitness hearing for the suspect in the Vancouver Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people...
Sep 11, 2025
Carney says federal government will sign more pharmacare deals with provinces
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is committed to signing pharmacare deals with all provinces and territories, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday, ending months of speculation about the pr...
Sep 11, 2025
ER visits for pneumonia doubled last fall, CIHI data shows
TORONTO - The number of emergency department visits for pneumonia more than doubled last fall over the previous year, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says. The new data released Thursday...
Sep 11, 2025
Study estimates 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke caused 82,000 premature deaths globally
VANCOUVER - Smoke from record-breaking Canadian wildfires in 2023 caused an estimated 5,400 acute deaths and about 82,100 premature deaths worldwide, a new study shows. The study published in the peer...
Sep 10, 2025
Saskatchewan NDP wants review of government response to 'Queen of Canada' occupation
RICHMOUND - Saskatchewan's Opposition is asking why the province and its health authority responded so late to the occupation of a compound by the so-called "Queen of Canada," months after the sewer s...
Sep 09, 2025 Romana Didulo, a conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada," looks on while leaving provincial court after she was granted bail in Swift Current, Sask., Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...