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CBC News spoke with former Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy employees who believe the company is taking advantage of the MedsCheck service by pushing staff to bill for consultations patients don’t necessarily need. The company can then bill the province up to $75 per call. Internal letter describes push for billable …

A Calgary man with autism and obsessive compulsive disorder told jurors he killed his father because he called him a Chinese word meaning “useless.” The 41-year-old is on trial, accused of second-degree murder in the death of his father, Kwan Fong, 70. On Tuesday, Vincent Fong testified in his own …

Lisa Red Young Man was one of at least 1,706 Albertans who died of opioid poisoning last year. The opioid crisis in Alberta has reached across populations and communities over the past number of years, but the First Nations population has been disproportionately affected.  Lisa Red Young Man had a …

Relatives of an elderly couple in rural Nova Scotia who endured a two-month landline outage say it’s a safety concern, calling landlines an essential service that should be prioritized by phone companies. Couple lost home phone service for nearly two months. When Jim Sacouman and Barb Moore lost landline service …

Two men are dead and three others are in hospital after two separate shooting incidents in the city Tuesday morning. One incident happened little before 5 a.m. in north Toronto on Hickory Tree Road near Weston Road. Toronto police said two men were rushed to a trauma centre where they …

A Toronto-based research team met with and surveyed some 10,000 Canadians about the state of the health-care system — and what they found is deep dissatisfaction and frustration with primary care as the country grapples with a severe shortage of family doctors.  OurCare Initiative finds primary care is the top …

The Alberta government’s seven-month ban on new large-scale wind and solar power projects will come to an end this week, but the province is unlikely to return to its previous status as a hotbed of investment. Province will lift ban on new projects this week and begin introducing new rules. …

A 74-year-old retired nurse with mental illness who has been jailed and hospitalized dozens of times in the past six years was released from custody on Friday, and her brother — and the assistant Crown — worry it’s just a matter of time before she’s arrested again. Barbara Cleary was …

An Ontario university is pulling dozens of vending machines that were tracking the age and gender of customers in the latest example of pushback against technology that tests the boundaries of privacy rules. Questions raised on Reddit lead to all 29 machines being removed. An Ontario university is pulling dozens …

Quebec consumers will have fewer choices and be paying more for everything from coffee makers to washing machines if the government follows through with its revisions to the province’s French language charter, legal and industry experts say. There will be fewer, more expensive options in stores and online due to …