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Almost one-quarter of all Alberta MLAs facing citizen-led recall petition drives
EDMONTON - Almost one-quarter of all politicians in the Alberta legislature now face citizen-led petition drives to remove them from office. Alberta's chief electoral officer told a legislature commit...
Dec 05, 2025
Mother says Saskatchewan's involuntary drug treatment bill would have helped her sons
REGINA - Saskatchewan's government tabled a bill Friday to force treatment on those battling drug addictions, a plan a mother of two dead sons says would have helped them. Angela McPhee says her sons,...
Dec 05, 2025
Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication
OTTAWA - An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environment groups in Canada to ask the federal gover...
Dec 04, 2025
Montreal-area measles case is first reported in Quebec since April
MONTREAL - Quebec is reporting a new case of measles in the Montreal area, the first in the province since April. The case involves a person who visited a pediatric clinic in St-Eustache, Que., an off...
Dec 04, 2025
Judge to rule in January if man accused in triple murder was criminally responsible
MONTREAL - A man who stabbed his parents and grandmother to death inside their Montreal home in March 2023 should be found not criminally responsible for the crimes, the prosecution and defence told a...
Dec 04, 2025
Children's hospitals seeing more flu cases as earlier season takes a toll
TORONTO - Hospitals are seeing more children sick with flu after the virus began circulating earlier than usual this year. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario said it saw eight times more kids ...
Dec 04, 2025
Alberta health authority CEO on leave of absence, interim replacement named
EDMONTON - Alberta's transforming provincial health authority is in for another shakeup as it says its chief executive officer is on a leave of absence. Alberta Health Services says it can't provide d...
Dec 03, 2025
Two cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers
EDMONTON - Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government's decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override teachers' rights and shut d...
Dec 03, 2025
Quebec doctor and ex-politician suspended for his treatment of Lyme disease
MONTRAL - A doctor and former head of a Quebec political party has been suspended for six months from practising medicine by the province's college of physicians for his approach to treating patients ...
Dec 03, 2025
B.C. New Democrat legislator Joan Phillip facing health issue, says party caucus
VICTORIA - The British Columbia NDP caucus says legislator Joan Phillip is dealing with an illness that requires additional testing. New Democrat caucus chair Garry Begg said in a news release on Wedn...
Dec 03, 2025
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