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People with diabetes in lower-income areas at higher risk for amputations: report
By Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
TORONTO – The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more than 7,000 people with diabetes undergo a leg, foot or toe amputation every year – and the majority of those procedures could have been prevented. The report issued today says people with diabetes living in the lowest-income neighbourhoods are three times more likely to have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Macron, Trudeau meet as French president visits Canada
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to his home in Ottawa Wednesday for an informal private dinner. Trudeau greeted Macron outside Rideau Cottage with a hug and a big smile at the start of Macron’s second official visit to Canada. The two leaders will hold more formal meetings Thursday in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Evacuation orders near Grand Forks, B.C., as U.S. wildfire threatens to cross border
By The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
GRAND FORKS, B.C. – Tactical evacuations are underway outside the B.C. southern Interior town of Grand Forks, as an out-of-control wildfire in Washington state surges north and threatens to cross the border. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary says the evacuations are taking place west of Grand Forks as embers from the Goosmus wildfire shower ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Big Sam’: Paleontologists unearth giant skull of Pachyrhinosaurus in Alberta
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
It’s a dinosaur that roamed Alberta’s badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant. On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie pulled its 272-kilogram skull from the ground. They call it “Big Sam.” The adult Pachyrhinosaurus is the second plant-eating dinosaur to be unearthed from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Foreign ministry rang alarm bell over challenges in countering disinformation online
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – A newly released memo shows Canada’s foreign ministry expressed alarm about its shrinking ability to counter foreign disinformation online due to limited access to data and the evolving tactics of adversaries. The memo, released by a federal inquiry into foreign interference, noted Canada had led the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism to identify and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Liberal government survives non-confidence vote, as Bloc sets deadline
By Laura Osman and Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – The minority Liberal government survived a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, but if the prime minister wants to avoid an election before Christmas the Bloc Québécois said he will have to meet its demands by the end of next month. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet and his caucus joined the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Haiti-born engineer named as next senator from Quebec
By The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a civil engineer who grew up in Haiti as the next senator from Quebec. Suze Youance will sit as an independent in the upper chamber. She immigrated to Canada from Haiti in 2006, having spent more than a decade on Canadian aid projects based out of Port-au-Prince. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Climate change made some heat waves at least 10 times more likely: Environment Canada
By Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
A new rapid analysis says climate change made August heat waves over some of Canada’s most northern ““ and rapidly warming ““ regions at least 10 times more likely. Environment and Climate Change Canada says the heat waves in Inuvik, N.W.T., as well asKitikmeot and Kivalliq, Nvt., generated peak temperatures between 12 and 13 degrees ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paleontologists unearth giant skull of Pachyrhinosaurus in northern Alberta
By The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – A giant skull from a rare dinosaur that’s about the size of a baby elephant is being excavated in northern Alberta. Emily Bamforth, the paleontologist leading the excavation, says the skull of the adult Pachyrhinosaurus weighs about 272 kilograms. It’s estimated to be 72 million years old. Bamforth says the dinosaur ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crown loses bid to have security officials testify in lawsuit behind closed doors
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Crown has lost a bid to have several current and former security officials testify behind closed doors in the lawsuit of a Montreal man who was detained in Sudan. Federal Court Justice Patrick Gleeson has rejected a motion from government lawyers to exclude the public and media from the courtroom during the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservative non-confidence motion defeated; Liberal government survives
By The Canadian Press on September 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Liberal minority government has survived a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons by a count of 211-120. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre put forward the motion asking MPs to declare they did not have confidence in the prime minister or his government. Poilievre failed to get the support of other opposition ... Read More »
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