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B.C. Health Ministry restores drug funding for girl with rare disease
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Health Minister Josie Osborne says she has reinstated funding for a nine-year-old girl who has an extremely rare disease. Charleigh Pollock has Batten disease, and the drug Brineura costs around $1 million a year. Osborne says she spoke with the girl’s family tonight and told them that the funding would be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. Health Ministry restores drug funding for girl with rare disease
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Health Minister Josie Osborne says she has reinstated funding for nine-year-old Charleigh Pollock’s drug coverage. The Vancouver Island girl suffers from Batten disease, and the drug Brineura costs around $1 million a year. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Report says Alberta government created command challenges fighting Jasper wildfire
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
JASPER, ALTA. — A report into a wildfire that devastated the Rocky Mountain resort town of Jasper last summer says crews did their best but command and control was hampered by the Alberta government. The report was commissioned by the town and surveyed participants and firefighters who battled the wind-whipped blaze that destroyed a third ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Jasper fire report says Alberta government complicated response
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
JASPER — A report into a wildfire that devastated the Rocky Mountain resort town of Jasper says crews did their best but command and control was hampered by the Alberta government. The report was commissioned by the town and surveyed participants and firefighters who battled the wind-whipped blaze that destroyed a third of buildings in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search of Manitoba landfill for women’s remains ends, dig at second site to start
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
WINNIPEG — The search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women has concluded with a new search soon set to begin at a different site for another victim. The Manitoba government announced Thursday that crews finished looking last week through the Prairie Green landfill, just north of Winnipeg, for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa army unit head removed as part of social media misconduct probe
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — The head of an Ottawa-based Canadian Army regiment has been temporarily removed as part of an investigation into alleged online behaviour that the commander of the army says disgraced the military. Lt.-Gen. Michael Wright says the commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa has been removed from his post in connection with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Timeline of 4 women slain in Winnipeg, searching landfills for their remains
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government said Thursday that the search of a landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women has concluded and that there would soon be a new search at a different site for another victim. Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of four women. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why Indigenous leaders are so concerned
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney held a meeting with hundreds of First Nations chiefs Thursday, amid widespread skepticism and frustration over his controversial major-projects legislation. Bill C-5 gives the federal government sweeping new powers to speed up permitting for what the Liberals call “nation-building projects.” Carney says Bill C-5 is needed to shore up ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney’s meeting with First Nations on major projects leaves some chiefs frustrated
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was optimistic about finding consensus on the Liberals’ major projects law as he met with hundreds of First Nations chiefs on Thursday, but by mid-afternoon some leaders had walked out of the summit. Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Grand Chief Cody Diabo says he took the microphone to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Premier David Eby leans on Ravi Kahlon again as he reshuffles cabinet
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
VICTORIA — B.C. Premier David Eby has leaned on Ravi Kahlon from the moment Eby officially sought the government’s top job, with Kahlon co-chairing his leadership campaign. When Eby created the province’s stand-alone housing ministry in 2022, he asked Kahlon to head it, and when U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war on Canada ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search of Manitoba landfill for more remains of slain women concludes
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two victims of a serial killer has finished. The province began searching the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, in December for the remains of First Nations women Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, who were killed in 2022. Some ... Read More »
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