Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Memo warned PM of public anxiety about mental health, firearms after B.C. shootings
OTTAWA - Three days after the February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., government officials warned Prime Minister Mark Carney that online sentiment was shifting from collective grief toward "eme...
May 26, 2026
Manitoba doctors support provincial government's proposed social media ban
WINNIPEG - The negative effects social media has on children and youth's mental and physical health is outweighing other health concerns like substance use and injuries prompting some Manitoba doctors...
May 25, 2026
St. Paul's Hospital kidney campaign brings in $10M, supporting home-based treatments
Kidney care is coming closer to home for those living outside of Saskatoon. The St. Paul's Hospital Foundation announced this week that it surpassed its $10 million goal for the By Your Side Kidney Ca...
May 24, 2026 Lecina Hicke, CEO of the St. Paul's Hospital Foundation, said the campaign was focused on improving the support kidney disease patients receive after their diagnosis. (Marija Robinson/650 CKOM)
Community voices frustration as Burnaby hospital expansion project is put on hold
BURNABY - Dozens of protesters carrying placards gathered in a park in Burnaby, B.C., to rally against the provincial government's cancellation of a construction contract for a hospital expansion in t...
May 24, 2026
Best of times, worst of times: Montreal clinic cares for pregnant women with cancer
MONTREAL - On May 15, 2024, Habalet Andre Loblegnon learned she was pregnant for the fourth time. Two weeks later, she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. She had noticed a lump under her ri...
May 24, 2026
Ontario patient tests negative for Ebola, while new border screening measures are in place amid Congo outbreak
TORONTO - A person in Ontario tested negative for Ebola after returning from Ethiopia with symptoms consistent with a range of illnesses, Canada's top doctor said Friday, noting the risk of the virus ...
May 22, 2026
Ebola: How it spreads, the treatments available and why this outbreak is so devastating
TORONTO - As a rare strain of Ebola virus continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, here's what Canadians need to know. ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EBOLA? Yes. There are a f...
May 22, 2026 A woman mourns her child, who died of Ebola, at the General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Quebecer graduating from Polytechnique with service dog who attended every class
MONTREAL - When Victor Bal walks across the stage to collect his mechanical engineering degree at Polytechnique Montral, his service dog Kopeck will be by his side - just as she's been for every singl...
May 22, 2026
What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo
People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola. Some have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Con...
May 21, 2026 Red Cross workers carry the body of a person who died of Ebola into a coffin at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Cases of Lyme disease in Montreal highest in more than 20 years
MONTREAL - Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025. That's the highest number of cases since 2003, when Lyme infections be...
May 21, 2026
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