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Lisa Vick, 48, is one of many women in Saskatchewan facing bottlenecks in the health-care system due to a shortage of radiologists and surgeons with breast specializations.  Health minister says progress being made to address breast cancer diagnostic, surgical backlogs. A mother of two from Weyburn, Sask., has known since …

A new report on tent encampments across Canada calls for urgent action at all levels of government to end what federal housing advocate Marie-Josée Houle describes as a “life and death crisis.”  Marie-Josée Houle wants to see national response plan implemented by Aug. 31. A new report on tent encampments …

A Brantford woman who pleaded guilty after harassing and fraudulently seeking the services of Ontario doulas will learn her fate today. The sentencing hearing in the Court of Justice comes nearly a month after over a dozen victims spoke of the devastating impact her actions have had on their lives.  …

Matthew R. Morris grew up in Scarborough both a good student and an athletic talent, yet it was always the latter that his teachers encouraged. Now a teacher himself, he’s challenging stereotypes of Black male identity and, by bringing his whole self to the classroom, setting an example for his …

WARNING: This story contains details of gun violence. From the hospital room where she’s spent months now recovering after being shot 13 times and nearly dying, Jaspreet Kaur Sidhu recalls the night her parents were killed. On Nov. 20, 2023, Sidhu, 28, says a man broke into her family’s Caledon, …

Allowing international students to work more than 20 hours a week could distract from their studies and undermine the objective of temporary foreign worker programs, public servants warned the federal government in 2022.  Government has temporarily lifted a cap on the number of hours international students are allowed to work. …

Energy critics within the NDP’s provincial affiliates in Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against MP Charlie Angus’s private member’s bill targeting fossil fuel advertising. The dispute between provincial and federal New Democrats comes days after two candidates to lead the Alberta NDP expressed openness to loosening the formal ties …

As the number of dementia patients in Canada continues to climb, so do the calls to allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID). There’s currently a petition before the House of Commons requesting a Criminal Code amendment to allow people facing a capacity-diminishing diagnosis to request MAID in …

Proposed changes to B.C.’s Land Act to align the legislation with the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act has sparked reactions that the First Nations Leadership Council calls ‘inaccurate and unhelpful.’  Terry Teegee says suggestion changes would allow First Nations a ‘veto’ is false and inflammatory. Recent …

As short-term rentals have become big business in cottage country, Muskoka Lakes property owners say partying and noise are a growing problem. The township wants more regulation, but some say proposed fees and limitations hurt responsible renters.  Renters say responsible property owners are being punished for the actions of a …