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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:10 EDT
Who is eligible for a 4th COVID-19 vaccine dose? A province-by-province breakdown
As a seventh wave of COVID-19 begins sweeping across Canada, with the Omicron BA.5 subvariant driving transmission, some provinces are expanding eligibility for a fourth dose of the vaccine. ...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Waiting for an accessible unit, this St. John's woman is trapped in her bedroom
Phyllis Churchill is effectively a prisoner in her own room, unable to move down the stairs or find an apartment that's suitable to her needs.

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Too few nurses means Mount Forest's hospital ER will close overnight Saturday and Sunday
The emergency department in Mount Forest, Ont., will close evenings and overnights this Saturday and Sunday because of "significant gaps in nursing coverage."

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
B.C. doctors warn rural emergency rooms are bearing the brunt of health-care shortages
ER doctors warn that the pandemic highlighted, rather than created, persistent problems in B.C.'s health-care system — with ERs bearing the brunt of the breakdowns in other areas of the system. ...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:33:56 EDT
Premiers close 2-day summit, call on feds to stop negotiating health funding through the media
Canada’s premiers ended their two day summit in Victoria B.C. calling on the federal government to stop negotiating through the media and sit down with them to discuss the future of health-care fund...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:30:04 EDT
Charter not violated in denying transplant to patient who refused COVID-19 vaccine, court rules
The woman was diagnosed in 2018 with a chronic, progressive disease with no cure. Doctors told her that a transplant was her only hope of survival.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:13:40 EDT
Ex-boyfriend charged in Elnaz Hajtamiri's abduction from Wasaga Beach home
The ex-boyfriend of Elnaz Hajtamiri has been charged with kidnapping in her violent abduction from a home in Wasaga Beach earlier this year, Ontario Provincial Police say.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:58:59 EDT
Search for potential human burial sites begins at former Vancouver Island residential school
On Tuesday, the search at the Alberni Indian Residential School began using ground-penetrating radar, a technique employed by dozens of First Nations across Canada embarking on similar searches. ...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:13:08 EDT
Hamilton police say video of road rage is 'hate incident' but they can't lay charges
Police in Hamilton say they've seen a viral video of a road rage incident they consider a "hate incident," but no charges will be laid because what took place in the Ontario city isn't illegal. ...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:28:18 EDT
Quebec tells federally regulated firms to guarantee use of French among employees
With a federal law to modernize the Official Languages Act still being debated in Parliament, Quebec has acted to shore up French in federally regulated businesses on its territory.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:47:30 EDT
Grieving families mark one year since crane collapse killed 5 men in Kelowna
One year after five men were killed in a crane collapse on a construction site in Kelowna, B.C., police and workplace safety investigators are still combing through evidence about what happened and wh...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:43:35 EDT
Rob Thomson becomes 1st Canadian to manage MLB game in Canada as Phillies face Blue Jays
Philadelphia skipper Rob Thomson became the first Canadian to manage a Major League Baseball game in his home country when the Phillies played the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:00:53 EDT
In 1st event after 6 horses died, Stampede chuckwagons return with new safety measures
Chuckwagon races are well underway at the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth," and organizers say they've implemented new measures intended to boost the safety of the event.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:40:43 EDT
N.S. mass shooter had a history of intimidation, violent altercations
The man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in April 2020 had a history of violence in the decades before his final rampage, inflicting assaults and harassment of strangers, employees, and patients al...

Fri, 8 Jul 2022 12:20:50 EDT
Rogers says it will credit customers with 5 days of service after massive outage

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:33:27 EDT
Ottawa fast-tracking travel visas for AIDS conference amid sharp criticism
The federal government says it is now prioritizing temporary travel visas for people seeking to attend the International AIDS Conference in Montreal at the end of July.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:21:03 EDT
Sudbury police urge public not to take 'matters into your own hands' after racist incident captured on video
Greater Sudbury police urge the public to refrain from taking matters into their own hands amid an investigation into an altercation at a gas station in the northern Ontario city that was captured on ...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:34:38 EDT
Cree hockey hopeful living a childhood dream with Habs invite
"The whole Cree Nation is rooting for him … you see that through social media," said the father of Israel Mianscum, one of 40 players invited to take part in the Montreal Canadiens development camp ...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Hamilton man was unable to call 911 during Rogers outage as sister was dying
A Hamilton family is in mourning after facing a life-or-death situation last week during the Rogers outage that had the country reeling, and an expert says it's evidence of the "fragility" of Canada's...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:35:23 EDT
This Indigenous priest will lead Pope Francis on his visit to Canada this month
When Vatican officials were looking for someone in Canada to act as a liaison for program planning during the Pope's visit later this month, they had specific criteria. Ideally, the person would have ...



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