Murray Wood: What the stars of the World Cup could learn from four-year-olds
Murray Wood says despite what his granddaughter's soccer team lacks in skill - or even understanding of why they're on t...
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Five more Alberta UCP legislature members facing recall, bringing total to 14
EDMONTON - Elections Alberta has issued recall petitions against five more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus, bringing the total to 14. The new total means that almo...
Nov 25, 2025
Alberta bill allows doctors to toggle between public and private pay for surgeries
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has tabled a bill that would open the door for surgeons to charge patients for privately delivered procedures while keeping a foot in the public system and billing ta...
Nov 24, 2025
Health minister dismisses key recommendation from expert report on pharmacare
OTTAWA - Health Minister Marjorie Michel is dismissing the key finding of an expert advisory committee on pharmacare, which says Ottawa should fully fund a list of essential medicines without cutting ...
Nov 24, 2025 Health Minister Marjorie Michel rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Ottawa announces $35 million for 30 oral health training programs across Canada
MONTREAL - The federal government has announced more than $35 million over three years to train dental students across the country. Health Minister Marjorie Michel made the announcement today in Montr...
Nov 24, 2025
Nunavik's Inuit residents show resilience in the face of persistent water shortages
PUVURNITUQ - In Quebec's Nunavik region, it's not unusual to run out of drinking water at home, or to have a full wastewater tank. But the Inuit residents demonstrate an impressive resilience to water...
Nov 24, 2025
Stopping overdoses like bailing a boat with a thimble, B.C. court hears
VANCOUVER - The co-founder of a Vancouver "compassion club" that bought heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine so it could be tested and sold to save lives said he wanted to stop the dangerous street dru...
Nov 24, 2025
In Quebec's Nunavik region, constant water shortages compromise health care
PUVIRNITUQ - Even if they're surrounded by vast bodies of water as far as the eye can see, residents of Quebec's Far North lack a reliable water supply. Not only does this impact citizens' health thro...
Nov 23, 2025
Doctor and nurses are leaving Nunavik over water shortages that affect care
PUVIRNITUQ - Doctors and nurses in Quebec's Nunavik region say constant water shortages are a factor that is pushing some colleagues to leave, in a region where retention of staff has long been an iss...
Nov 23, 2025
New Nunavut premier takes office as federal government pushes infrastructure drive
OTTAWA - As John Main settled in for one of his first interviews since being chosen as Nunavut's new premier, his phone rang while he was in the middle of a sentence. "Hi Doug," he said, taking a cong...
Nov 23, 2025
Hospital staff back to work after AUPE reaches tentative deal
EDMONTON - The union representing 16,000 hospital workers says it reached a tentative agreement with Alberta's health authority a minute before its members hit the picket lines Saturday morning. Sandr...
Nov 22, 2025
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