Broad shutdowns will start in Winnipeg and surrounding areas on Monday as Manitoba moves its capital area to the red, or critical, level — the highest stage of its pandemic response scale — following days of record-shattering COVID-19 case announcements. Movie theatres, concert halls, sports facilities and restaurant dining rooms […]
Read Story Transcript A Vancouver psychiatrist says that, two decades ago, he never would have imagined the state of addiction and homelessness in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside would deteriorate the way it has. “I’ve been working down there since the late 1990s. No one was really predicting the level of deaths […]
Health Canada has asked pharmaceutical companies to put stronger safety labels on benzodiazepines and other sedative drugs prescribed for sleep and anxiety disorder to better reflect their serious risks. Doctors have long prescribed benzodiazepines such as lorazepam (brand name Ativan), alprazolam (Xanax) and Clonazepam (Klonopinin) the short term to treat […]
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole took aim Friday at what he called financial elites, saying his own party needs to take inequality more seriously and to support ongoing emergency aid. He used the midday speech to a largely business audience to say that how the country creates wealth needs to be […]
Former finance minister Bill Morneau says he was thinking of leaving federal politics and running for a top diplomatic post well before the WE Charity affair prompted his sudden departure from cabinet. On Thursday, Morneau told CBC’s Rosemary Barton that, for some time, he’s had his eye on the secretary-general position with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation […]
Nature at its most gruesome can rival a horror movie. A perfect example is the disturbing way the parasitoid Emerald jewel wasp turns the American cockroach into a zombie, kidnaps it, and precisely lays its eggs on the roach. The larval wasps then develop on and in this living nursery, slowly […]
As questions mount about how police officers handle mental health calls, a new RCMP report shows the number of interactions between Mounties and people experiencing mental health crises has increased in most provinces and territories. Last year, Mounties reported more than 123,000 “mental health occurrences” — the RCMP’s term for a police interaction with someone […]
The Liberal government will miss a target it set during the 2015 federal election campaign to lift all long-term drinking water advisories in First Nations by March 2021 — in some cases by several years — according to a survey of communities by CBC News. More than a dozen First Nations […]
The Alberta government says it’s prepared to give billions of dollars to lure investors willing to build or expand petrochemical facilities in the province, part of what it says is a push to be a top global player in the field. In a news release introducing the new Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive […]
Halloween won’t be the same this year. Trick or treating will be minimal across much of the country, if it happens at all. The same with Halloween parties for adults. COVID-19 is making this a scary holiday for the wrong reasons. But we could use this time to think about our priorities. For […]
