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First Nation waits on logging road at centre of pipeline dispute in northern B.C.
HOUSTON, B.C. - About a dozen supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs arrived to help set up a new camp on the side of a snowy logging road that's at the centre of a disputed pipeline ro...
Jan 11, 2020
Province releases new exposure location list
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is informing the public of potential exposures to COVID-19. The following businesses are where a person or persons attended while likely infectious.North BattlefordOc...
Oct 27, 2020
Canadian government not ordering Novavax's protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is not providing Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine this respiratory virus season, citing low demand. It says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of ...
Oct 01, 2024
Liberals promise new funds for cash-strapped coast guard, fisheries department
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has promised an infusion of much-needed cash for the Canadian Coast Guard and federal Fisheries Department, which documents show have suffered from years of chronic und...
Oct 25, 2017
Painful words: How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic
Nearly 40 years ago, a respected doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine with some very good news: Out of nearly 40,000 patients given powerful pain drugs in a Boston hospital, on...
May 31, 2017
Data scientist drops Facebook defamation suit
Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the centre of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expens...
Jul 02, 2019
B.C. court hears differing diagnoses on prescription to cure medicare ills
VANCOUVER - Advocates on both sides of a legal debate over the future of public health care in Canada are offering opposing diagnoses on how to rejuvenate what many consider an overburdened medical sy...
Sep 12, 2016
Free website for medical students a prescription for augmented digital learning
TORONTO - There’s no question medical students have to cram in a lot of information on their way to becoming full-fledged doctors, and a new Canadian teaching website aims to make that journey a...
Sep 21, 2016
Team Europe head coach Krueger says his squad will play Canada without any fear
TORONTO - Few expected Team Europe, a 50-1 underdog at the start of the World Cup of Hockey, to contend for a title at the eight-team tournament. Not only did the Europeans defy expectations just by g...
Sep 28, 2016
Saudi Arabia bars citizens, residents from travel to China
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia on Thursday barred its citizens and residents of the kingdom from travelling to China amid the new virus outbreak. The kingdom's General Directorate of Passp...
Feb 06, 2020