Prince Edward Island is now short another family doctor, the province’s health agency confirmed Thursday. Dr. Harold Molyneaux has taken an immediate leave due to medical reasons, Health P.E.I. said in a statement. As a result his Summerside clinic, which served around 2,500 patients, will close immediately. The health agency …

Parents in Sudbury, Ont., say they have to either stay home with their children or pay the higher cost of private child care due to long waitlists to access licensed, subsidized daycares under the national $10-a-day program.  Average wait time for a daycare spot in the city is 23 months. …

The Bank of Canada left interest rates unchanged this week, at least in part because it doesn’t want to add fuel to a real estate market that’s already heating up.  As housing market heats up, central bank leaves interest rates unchanged at 5%. The Bank of Canada is trying to …

For the past two decades, geologists have wrestled with whether humans have changed the planet enough to kick off a completely new epoch in geological time called the Anthropocene. Now, a subcommittee of Earth scientists has reportedly made a decision: No, we haven’t. Proposed that start of new epoch was …

The Russian ambassador to Canada said in an interview with CBC News that Western electronics might be found in Russian drones being used in Ukraine.  Russia’s ambassador to Canada says that despite sanctions, Western electronics could still end up in drones. The Russian ambassador to Canada said in an interview …

The Bank of Canada left interest rates unchanged this week, at least in part because it doesn’t want to add fuel to a real estate market that’s already heating up.  As housing market heats up, central bank leaves interest rates unchanged at 5%. The Bank of Canada is trying to …

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.  EU climate agency says temperatures past internationally set threshold for long-term warming. For the ninth …

Six people — four children and two adults — were killed inside a townhouse in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven late Wednesday night, police say. One person was arrested at the scene.  1 person taken to hospital with injuries, male arrested at the scene, police say. Six people — four …

Only 58 per cent of the Canadian Armed Forces would be able to respond if called upon in a crisis by NATO allies right now — and almost half of the military’s equipment is considered “unavailable and unserviceable” — says a recent internal Department of National Defence presentation obtained by …

Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law late Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children, after facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state.  But legislature didn’t address legal status of IVF-created embryos that was …