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Catherine Calling Last remembers breathing through her contractions and hoping she would make it, as her husband drove down the highway between Pincher Creek and Lethbridge.  Town’s doctors say they can no longer support labour and delivery in the community. Catherine Calling Last remembers breathing through her contractions and hoping …

The City of Ottawa has revived an anti-rat working group to coordinate its struggle against the pesky rodents.  The move comes as councillors field complaints of rat infestations across the city, with one warning that an “inadequate” response is leaving residents to fend for themselves. “Residents were basically told, ‘Hey, …

Rashawn McCarthy (10) of Blackwater goes up against two Converge defenders. PBA IMAGE Blackwater pulled away late in the game and relied on Rashawn McCarthy’s game-long brilliance to outlast Converge, 102-97, in their PBA On Tour preseason match on Wednesday at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City. The sweet-shooting …

Jason Walmsley has been behind bars before. He’s hoping a sentence in the federal Stony Mountain Institution will set him up with the supports he needs to fight addiction, both in custody and once he’s released.  ‘How can federal prison be the best option out of all these other options?’ …

Several shoppers have complained about receipt-check signs recently spotted at their Loblaw-owned grocer. Each of those signs has now disappeared, but Loblaw won’t say if it has abandoned receipt checks, which can be unpopular with shoppers and difficult to enforce.  Legal experts say customers generally don’t have to comply with …

Despite renovations to its dining area, Windsor’s Street Help doesn’t have a free spot for clients to sit — that’s because it’s full of donations.  In March 2022, Street Help added two 40-foot shipping containers behind its building as it said it needed extra storage space for donations. At the …

Joanne Nicklas says it’s exciting to think that, in future, ranchers like her may not have to worry about constant shade or turning on sprinklers around the clock to cool their cattle if summer temperatures soar like they did in B.C.’s last heat dome.  Angus-Senepol hybrid cattle have a natural …

Canada’s boreal forest will look different in the years to come. Scientists say the changing climate and increased severity of wildfires are altering their makeup.  Increased severity of wildfires and dryer, warmer weather means different species are growing back. In 2015, scientist Ellen Whitman set out on a visit to …

The Preamble of the Philippine Constitution serves as a timeless reminder to all Filipinos that building a democratic nation is a continuing endeavor: “We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish a government that shall embody …

OVER the past few months, a common theme among institutions concerned with combating climate change is that there must be a substantial increase in private sector investment in climate adaptation and mitigation. Public sector resources coursed through various institutions such as the UN-managed climate funds, the World Bank, the Asian …