Tag Archives: Health
Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22
CAIRO (AP) - Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in th...
Feb 05, 2026
New survey suggests Canadians feel health-care system has deteriorated
TORONTO - A new survey suggests Canadians feel the health-care system has deteriorated over the last decade as they increasingly struggle to access family doctors and encounter hurdles to seeing speci...
Feb 05, 2026
Police suspected 'murder-suicide' in Prince Rupert family's deaths: B.C. official
An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...
Feb 04, 2026
Police suspected 'murder-suicide' in Prince Rupert family's deaths: B.C. official
An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...
Feb 04, 2026
Feds revive bill to build digitally connected health data systems for patients, providers
TORONTO - The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems, giving both patients and providers access t...
Feb 04, 2026
Friends rallying to bring home B.C. man after 40-metre fall from ice wall in Colorado
Friends of an avid adventure seeker critically injured after a 40-metre fall from a Colorado ice wall are rallying to bring him back to Canada to continue his long recovery. Vratislav (Vrato) Durech a...
Feb 03, 2026
Canadian who says he was tortured in Syria wants court to force Ottawa's hand
OTTAWA - A Canadian man who says he has been tortured in Syria is asking the Federal Court to order Ottawa to decide whether to help bring him home. The man, known publicly only as SS, is one of sever...
Feb 03, 2026
Appeals court overturns former UCLA gynecologist's sex abuse conviction
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former campus gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, on sex abuse charges. James Heaps was se...
Feb 02, 2026
Seniors struggle with cold and loneliness in freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall
TORONTO - Calls to Toronto Seniors Helpline are on the rise as older adults struggle with issues ranging from no heat in their homes to loneliness amid brutal cold and impassable snow-covered sidewalk...
Jan 31, 2026
CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...
Jan 30, 2026