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Family health teams urge Ontario to up pay for nurses, health workers to retain them
Ontario is working toward attaching everyone in the province to a primary care provider, but family health teams are warning that as the government has its sights set on that laudable goal, the foundation of primary care is crumbling.
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Floor-crossing Liberal MP Matt Jeneroux to join Carney on trip to India, Australia and Japan
OTTAWA — Matt Jeneroux, the Liberals newest MP who crossed the floor from the Conservatives, will join Prime Minister Mark Carney on his upcoming trip to India, Australia and Japan. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt will also be travelling for parts of the delegation’s trip to India, according to the…
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‘Massive boondoggle’: Conservatives take aim at health coverage for rejected refugee claimants
OTTAWA — A Conservative motion to restrict health-care benefits to failed asylum claimants was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, with the projected cost of a federal health program for refugees expected to increase to $1.5 billion by 2030. “Under the Liberals, the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides benefits to asylum claimants,…
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Missing snowmobilers found dead beneath ice near Anahim Lake, B.C.
RCMP say frozen ice concealed the cracks indicating that a pair of missing snowmobilers from 100 Mile House had fallen through Charlotte Lake in the B.C. Interior.
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Brother of Tumbler Ridge shooter arrested after Canada-wide warrant issued, RCMP say
Jacob Jan Van Rootselaar, the older brother of Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, has been arrested and charged, Alberta RCMP confirmed Tuesday. The 22-year-old was arrested on Thursday in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, on an “outstanding Canada Wide arrest warrant from a 2024 Fort McMurray attempted murder investigation,” Cpl. Troy Savinkoff told National Post over…
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Eddie Carvery’s family vows to continue his Africville protest
Family of the late Africville activist Eddie Carvery are vowing to continue his protest on the grounds of the former historic Black community in north-end Halifax.
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Snowy winter in N.S. pushing tiny saw-whet owls into more populated areas
Northern saw-whet owls are smaller than robins and can find it difficult to penetrate the snow to reach their usual prey.
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‘Your heart feels like it’s back in Ukraine’: Sask. university student reflects on 4 years of war
University of Saskatchewan student Nikita Sereda remembers waking up in his apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to the sounds of war on Feb. 24, 2022.
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Canadian journalist narrowly misses cartel violence in Mexico
I never saw it coming. I had spent 10 days in sunny Puerto Vallarta, the Mexican resort city on the Pacific coast, enjoying what hundreds of thousands of Canadians do every winter, splashing in the surf and eating too many tacos. On the return trip to Fredericton, my family missed our connection and got stuck…
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Peel police arrest four in human trafficking investigation involving 11-to-14-year-old girls
Peel Regional Police says investigators from its vice and human trafficking unit have arrested and charged four individuals in connection with a human trafficking investigation. Police said in a press release that in January 2024 the unit investigated allegations that several young female victims, aged 11 to 14 years old, were being trafficked and exploited…