Tag Archives: Health
'He stole our innocent child': Quebec daycare crash families relate heavy toll
LAVAL - The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a city bus plowed into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 told a courtroom on Thursday that the accused has left her family broken and angry. "He sto...
May 01, 2025
Valley Hill Youth Treatment Centre reopens
A youth treatment facility in Prince Albert has reopened and is looking forward to a fresh start. Operations at the Valley Hill Youth Treatment Centre were suspended in August last year and Meyers Nor...
Apr 30, 2025
Battlefords Pickleball Club gets injection of funds for upgrades and training
A sport that is gaining in popularity worldwide is serving up some fun and comradery in the Battlefords. Earlier this week, the Saskatchewan Senior Fitness Association (SSFA) awarded the Battlefords P...
Apr 30, 2025
Filipino nurses shaken by Vancouver festival attack say tragedy 'will not define us'
Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the da...
Apr 30, 2025
Collective trauma after festival attack could ripple for months, experts say
VANCOUVER - Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people on the weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columb...
Apr 30, 2025
Surgeries cancelled at one of Quebec's largest hospitals after violent storm
MONTREAL - One of Quebec's largest hospitals cancelled surgeries on Wednesday after it lost power the night before during one of a series of violent storms that swept through the province. Officials a...
Apr 30, 2025
Notable Canadian cases where an accused was found not criminally responsible
A judge has ruled that Pierre Ny St-Amand, 53, was not criminally responsible for the 2023 bus attack on a Laval, Que., daycare that killed two small children and injured six others. Superior Court Ju...
Apr 29, 2025
Judge declares accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash not criminally responsible
LAVAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023. Just...
Apr 29, 2025
Sask. vets urge dog owners to protect pets from parvovirus
Veterinarians at the University of Saskatchewan are encouraging pet owners to protect their dogs from canine parvovirus.Parvovirus is a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that attacks do...
Apr 27, 2025
'Tragedy all around': Murder charges follow Vancouver festival attack that killed 11
VANCOUVER - Charges have been laid against a man who's accused of racing a vehicle through a crowded street at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver, killing 11 in an attack the interim police ch...
Apr 27, 2025