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Manitoba NDP government marks mandate midpoint amid challenges to budget promise
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is preparing a new effort to contain spending in order to meet its promise to balance the budget, Premier Wab Kinew said Friday on the second anniversary of his NDP ...
Oct 03, 2025
Saskatchewan's Moe faces call to clean up sewage fouling area at cult compound
Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP says Premier Scott Moe's government needs to step up, snap on some rubber gloves and clean up the sewage fouling the air and land at a building forcibly abandoned by a cu...
Oct 03, 2025
N.L. has the country's highest per-capita debt. It's all but hidden in the election.
ST. JOHN'S - Business and taxpayer organizations are calling on party leaders in Newfoundland and Labrador to stop making costly election promises, as the province carries the country's highest per-ca...
Oct 03, 2025
Toronto hospital housing model 'a gift' to residents as ER visits reduced by half
TORONTO - Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner. Behind bars, he lifted weights all day and made connections that led him to commit more dangerous crimes...
Oct 03, 2025
People on meth, other drugs could be detained longer under proposed Manitoba law
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government introduced a bill Thursday that would allow authorities to detain intoxicated people for up to 72 hours instead of the current 24. The extra time would apply to peop...
Oct 02, 2025
Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta after pregnant mother contracts disease
EDMONTON - A newborn in Alberta has died of measles marking the province's first death from the disease this year, the government said Thursday. Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said the child...
Oct 02, 2025
Dr. Balfour Mount, father of palliative care, dies at 86
MONTRAL - Dr. Balfour Mount, widely recognized as the father of palliative care, is being remembered for his contribution to revolutionizing how people live out their final days. Mount died on Sept. 2...
Oct 02, 2025
All Sask. newborns eligible for RSV immunization in winter months
All babies born in Saskatchewan this winter will be eligible for immunization against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health said RSV is a common virus that infects...
Oct 01, 2025 While the program was previously only available to high-risk newborns, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health said all children born between Wednesday and March 31 will be eligible to receive the immunization. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Ottawa Public Health says province hasn't approved supervised consumption site
OTTAWA - Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn't given her permission fo...
Oct 01, 2025
Marineland decries Ottawa decision to bar export of remaining beluga whales to China
TORONTO - Marineland says it is "profoundly" disappointed by the federal government's decision to deny its request to ship 30 belugas to China and the park has "no ability to pay" for their care - wit...
Oct 01, 2025
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