Tag Archives: Health
Here's what the Liberals promised for health care. But can they deliver?
TORONTO - Until U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty came along, many thought health care would be a key issue in the federal election. Instead, it came across as ...
May 01, 2025
Vancouver festival attack suspect to appear in court on Friday
VANCOUVER - The suspect in the street festival attack that killed 11 people in Vancouver will appear in provincial court in the city on Friday, just hours before a memorial mass to pray for the victim...
May 01, 2025
'He stole our innocent child': Quebec daycare crash families relate heavy toll
LAVAL - The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a city bus plowed into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 told a courtroom on Thursday that the accused has left her family broken and angry. "He sto...
May 01, 2025
Filipino nurses shaken by Vancouver festival attack say tragedy 'will not define us'
Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the da...
Apr 30, 2025
Collective trauma after festival attack could ripple for months, experts say
VANCOUVER - Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people on the weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columb...
Apr 30, 2025
Surgeries cancelled at one of Quebec's largest hospitals after violent storm
MONTREAL - One of Quebec's largest hospitals cancelled surgeries on Wednesday after it lost power the night before during one of a series of violent storms that swept through the province. Officials a...
Apr 30, 2025
Nanaimo massage therapist accused of sexual misconduct
NANAIMO - Interim orders apply to a local massage therapist in response to a complaint from a female client. The patient made the report to the College of Complementary Health Professionals of BC (CCH...
Apr 29, 2025
Notable Canadian cases where an accused was found not criminally responsible
A judge has ruled that Pierre Ny St-Amand, 53, was not criminally responsible for the 2023 bus attack on a Laval, Que., daycare that killed two small children and injured six others. Superior Court Ju...
Apr 29, 2025
Judge declares accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash not criminally responsible
LAVAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023. Just...
Apr 29, 2025
Tim Hortons' Smile Cookie campaign backs Nanaimo hospital
NANAIMO - All Tim Hortons locations in Nanaimo are united in raising funds for a new specialty imaging camera at NRGH. With roughly $1 million more required to make the new SPECT/CT camera project val...
Apr 28, 2025