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Ontario lowers screening age for colorectal cancer to 45
New guidelines published online by Cancer Care Ontario say the province is lowering its colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 in response to a “notable” increase in younger people diagnosed with the disease.
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Growth of Red Dress Day proof ‘our voices are very powerful,’ says project founder
May 5 marks Red Dress Day across Canada.
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Hundreds of rural roads damaged, closed as spring flooding hits Sask.
As spring flooding continues to flow over roads in much of Saskatchewan, some RMs say they’re running out of barricades — and they’re begging residents not to move the ones that are already in place.
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Residents back home after Chatham gas incident prompts evacuation of several houses
Emergency crews evacuated homes on Scane Street and part of Foster Street in Chatham Tuesday morning while workers from Enbridge tended to a gas venting incident, the municipality said in a news release issued late Tuesday morning.
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Who is Canada’s new governor general Louise Arbour and why did Wendy Crewson play her in a movie?
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general. Here’s what to know about her. Who is Louise Arbour? The governor general of Canada is the federal representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III. The office dates back to the colony of New France in…
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$1.5M bail revoked for alleged drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto cops
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from a Toronto police officer, which investigators say was used in an unsuccessful conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer, was back in custody Tuesday morning after his bail was revoked.
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While Toronto Tempo are new to WNBA, women’s basketball has long history in Canada
The WNBA, not surprisingly, chose Canada as the country to extend its footprint outside the United States for the first time. Canadian players have been playing in America for more than 30 years.
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Montreal-Ottawa high-speed rail line could cross 1,700 properties, Crown corporation predicts
The first stretch of Canada’s proposed high-speed rail network is expected to cross approximately 1,700 properties, including at least 500 agricultural lands, the Crown corporation behind the project has told Radio-Canada.
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Maya Gebala’s fifth surgery a success, reports her father. ‘Could be her last’
Tumbler Ridge shooting survivor Maya Gebala may have undergone her fifth and final surgery on Monday. Her “cranioplasty was a success!,” her father, David Gebala shared in an X post on Tuesday. The family is hoping that Maya’s hydrocephalus will subside, so she can avoid another surgery for a shunt. “Right after surgery, we were…
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Ontario judge bans girl, 11, from attending nudist camps
An Ontario family court judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting an 11-year-old girl from attending nudist camps, citing concerns about her mental health, safety, and the child’s own thoughts on getting naked in nature. The girl’s father applied to the Superior Court of Justice for the order after learning his daughter had gone “naked…