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Kathryn Lewis used to walk about five kilometres every day along Prince Edward Island’s Confederation Trail. But the 67-year-old woman says she’s too scared to go back after an incident on Saturday that left her shaken and her dog injured and traumatized. Lewis said she was walking with her dog …

The art of cancer care balances hope and reality, says a Canadian oncologist helping to start a movement that aims to encourage honest conversations about end-of-life care.  People may celebrate a 2-week improvement in survival without acknowledging costs. Tom Somerville’s decision stop medical treatment for his end-stage cancer was a …

A band councillor on James Smith Cree Nation is angry that a convicted killer using an alias worked in the cultural centre on the First Nation following the Sept. 4, 2022, stabbing massacre. Kelley Thackeray was convicted of 2nd-degree murder in 2004. A band councillor on James Smith Cree Nation …

As the number of people across Ontario without a family doctor reaches a record high, there’s a fresh push on Premier Doug Ford’s government to make family practice more attractive to physicians by improving compensation. Inflation has outpaced average OHIP billings, prompting some doctors to opt out of family practice. …

A polar bear guard describes how to deter the animals from wandering near humans while a biological scientist explains how climate change is making these encounters more frequent and more dangerous. Climate change is bringing these bears into human contact more often than before. With climate change causing more polar …

Ojibwe filmmaker Jeremy Torrie is at the helm of a re-envisioning of the 1994 movie Once Were Warriors over a decade after acquiring the option rights to the film. Many Wounds features predominantly Indigenous cast, is currently being filmed in Manitoba. Ojibwe filmmaker Jeremy Torrie is at the helm of …

In an effort to accommodate a waitlist that has reached 7,683 households, the agency that runs public housing is using a new strategy. They’re moving single people and couples out of larger units meant for families. But the process is slow, and can be painful for some. Nova Scotia Provincial …

Warning: This article contains details of sexual assault that could be upsetting to some readers. Calgary police are asking for public assistance in the investigation of a sexual assault that occurred early Sunday morning in the city’s southwest. At approximately 1:15 a.m. a woman was waiting at a bus stop …

Click here to view the video It’s a societal upheaval that arrives twice a year like clockwork. Opposing camps argue that this thorny issue is bad for our health, bad for our children, and bad for our economy. What do we do about Daylight Saving Time (DST)? Most organized attempts …

The “crises” rocking national and international affairs are likely to get worse over the next few years and could have a significant effect on the federal government and Canada’s federal police force, says an internal report prepared for the RCMP.  Report examined ‘shifts in domestic and international environments’ that could …