The Canadian Press LIONS BAY, B.C.–Friends and family members of five hikers who died in the mountains near Vancouver gathered yesterday afternoon to support each other, says the Korean consul general. Sunggu Kim said hearing the cries of a hiker’s daughter amid families grieving their losses was difficult. “She was […]
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By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — An influential U.S. government health panel is dropping its opposition to routine prostate cancer screening in favour of letting men decide for themselves after talking with their doctor. The new draft guidelines echo those of several leading medical groups, but they don’t […]
The Canadian PressKristy Kirkup OTTAWA–Federal Health minister Jane Philpott says Ottawa now will pay for someone to travel with indigenous women who need to leave their communities to give birth–a change to what she called an “extremely unhelpful” policy. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Philpott said she heard […]
The Canadian PressMike BlanchfieldNicole Thompson Though there are no surviving veterans who fought at Vimy Ridge, Canadians across the country are making sure their legacy is not forgotten on the battle’s centennial anniversary. Those who were not among the 25,000 Canadians at the site of the battle in France to […]
The Canadian PressBy Lee Berthiaume VIMY RIDGE, France–They came together from coast to coast to coast, by the thousands, to say thank you and to remember. Canadians of all ages and all walks of life gathered under the soaring pillars of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial yesterday to mark the […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Public Services minister Judy Foote is taking an indefinite leave of absence from her job for personal and family reasons. He says Natural Resources minister Jim Carr will fill in for her during her absence. Trudeau said in a statement that families […]
The Canadian PressKristy Kirkup OTTAWA–Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak says her party’s decision to sanction her for comments about Canada’s residential school history amounts to a threat to freedom of speech. In a statement released yesterday, Beyak, who was removed Wednesday from the Senate committee on Aboriginal Peoples, says political correctness […]
The Canadian Press EDMONTON–A freezer malfunction at the University of Alberta has melted some of the world’s largest collection of Canadian Arctic ice core samples. The university says about 12 percent of the collection was damaged when temperature in the storage freezer soared to 40 C over the weekend. The […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — Health officials say nearly half of U.S. adults have caught HPV, a sexually-transmitted bug that can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. About 45 per cent of Americans ages 18 to 59 had some form of genital human papillomavirus, according to […]
The Canadian PressAllison JonesJessica Smith Cross TORONTO–Ontario’s premier says she isn’t buying an argument from the development industry that stricter rent control will do more harm than good for renters in the province. Kathleen Wynne’s comments Tuesday came amid reports of some residents in Toronto seeing their rents double–a situation […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Liquor Control Board of Ontario staff represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union will be holding a strike vote April 24 and 25. The union long has railed against the government’s move to sell beer, wine, and cider in grocery stores, calling it “creeping privatization.” At […]
The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA–Thousands of Canadians have started what some are calling a “pilgrimage” to France this week as the country prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of one of its most iconic battles: Vimy Ridge. Among them are 12,000 students who have studied and saved for months to […]
