CBC News said on Monday that a Calgary clinic wanted almost $5,000 a year for a membership for two parents Health Canada says it has written to Alberta officials to let them know that a Calgary clinic’s policy of letting patients “buy preferential access” is against the Canada Health Act. In an email, a government…
Since the afternoon of July 17, Confederation Line has been closed At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the City of Ottawa will talk about the latest LRT problems. Since July 17, when it stopped running, the LRT has not been running. The latest shut down was caused by a problem with the bearings, but the city…
Anglers say that fish congregate around blooms. Scientists have found levels of a liver toxin in fish Even though algae blooms are often said to smell bad and look bad, Eric Hirzel and Matthew Hehn say they help them catch more fish in Lake Erie. Both have been charter fishing captains for a long time.…
Bruneau was known for his tap dancing in Montreal’s clubs Many people knew Ethel Bruneau as the tap dance queen of Montreal. She has died. Majiza Philip, Bruneau’s granddaughter, told CBC on Monday night that the news was true. He was 87 years old. “I can’t believe she’s actually gone,” Philip told CBC Montreal.Daybreak. “I’m…
The city says the number is the “highest monthly average recorded” by central intake In June, homeless shelters in Toronto told an average of 273 people a night that there were no beds available for them. This is a new record high for the city. Advocates for the homeless told CBC Toronto that they think…
At this point, the N.W.T. premier says, “It doesn’t look good. Leona Mantla-Reddad was ready when the people of Behchok, N.W.T., were told to leave their homes Monday night.She had packed her bags, gotten supplies for her dog, and filled up her car earlier in the day because an evacuation alert had been sent out…
The U.S. Coast Guard says that a huge investigation is still in the fact-finding phase As part of the huge investigation into the explosion of OceanGate Expedition’s Titan submersible, investigators in the United States are trying to figure out whose remains they have on hand. Large pieces of the submersible, which was thought to have…
Jim Garwood has always said that his mother, Jessie Garwood, who died when she was 87, didn’t die by accident A man in Winnipeg says he finally has the news he’s been waiting almost 20 years for: his mother’s death is now being treated as a murder. In an interview with CBC last week, Jim…
I saw a way of life that seemed to be hundreds of years removed from my city apartment This First Person article is about a Montreal filmmaker named Colin MacKenzie’s experience. See for more information on CBC’s First Person stories.the FAQ. I used to spend my summer vacations as a child lying across the seat…
Around Kamloops, where 344 homes had to be evacuated because of a fire to the south, it might rain less often For the first time in more than a month, rain and cooler temperatures are coming to dry parts of British Columbia. This could give people working to put out hundreds of wildfires a break.…