Thunder Bay-born Barbara Reynolds lived and made regular pension payments in the U.K. for two decades before returning to Canada, where she made another one-time payment to the British government to top up her contributions. That didn’t protect her from worrying about paying the rent on her Halifax apartment this month after she …

In the early days of the pandemic, the federal government announced a multi-million-dollar funding agreement with the National Research Council (NRC) to expand a vaccine facility in Montreal — a site Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said would pump out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by November 2020. Two years after the prime …

A Russian missile hit a residential area of a southern Ukrainian town not far from a nuclear power station on Saturday, wounding 12 civilians and heightening fears of a nuclear accident during the months-long war, Ukrainian officials said. Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, said on the Telegram messaging app …

Some familiar faces will take another shot at winning a seat on a Toronto city council that’s poised for a lot of change in this fall’s election. With seven incumbents departing, a group of former city politicians, and some veterans of the tumultuous 2018 campaign, have registered to run. The official deadline to enter …

This story is part of Situation Critical, a series from CBC British Columbia reporting on the barriers people in this province face in accessing timely and appropriate health care. (CBC) Data shows that sick leaves in B.C.’s health-care sector are up by a marked amount compared to pre-pandemic levels. According to numbers requested by CBC News, an average of 9.7 per cent of health-care workers in the public system were off sick for at least …

This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. The current staffing crisis in health care has reignited debate over privatization of the Canadian system — and while more needs to be done to take the pressure off hospitals, critics say more private care …

Fatima Sherefa, 17, had a rough night at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Aug. 6.  Her flight from Toronto home to Winnipeg had been delayed several times and then, just after midnight, it was cancelled.  Sherefa says Air Canada staff didn’t offer hotel accommodation for the night, and instead passed out yoga …

Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses. At least 40 people were also wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including …

ਟ੍ਰਿਬਿਊਨ ਨਿਊਜ਼ ਸਰਵਿਸ ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ, 20 ਅਗਸਤ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਗਊਆਂ ‘ਤੇ ਪਈ ਲੰਪੀ ਸਕਿਨ ਦੀ ਮਾਰ ਮਗਰੋਂ ਹੁਣ ਸੂਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਛੂਤ ਦੀ ਬਿਮਾਰੀ ਨੇ ਜਕੜ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ। ਸੂਬੇ ਦੇ ਪਸ਼ੂ ਪਾਲਣ, ਡੇਅਰੀ ਵਿਕਾਸ, ਮੱਛੀ ਪਾਲਣ ਤੇ ਪੋਲਟਰੀ ਪਾਲਣ ਵਿਭਾਗ ਨੇ ਅਫਰੀਕਨ ਸਵਾਈਨ ਫੀਵਰ (ਏਐੱਸਐੱਫ) ਤੋਂ ਪੀੜਤ ਸੂਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਤੁਰੰਤ ਮਾਰਨ ਦੇ …

ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ, 20 ਅਗਸਤ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਸ਼ਾਹਬਾਜ਼ ਸ਼ਰੀਫ਼ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਗੱਲਬਾਤ ਜ਼ਰੀਏ ਭਾਰਤ ਨਾਲ ਪੱਕੇ ਤੌਰ ‘ਤੇ ਸ਼ਾਂਤੀ ਚਾਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਮੁੱਦੇ ਨੂੰ ਸੁਲਝਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਜੰਗ ਕਿਸੇ ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੇ ਹਿੱਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ। ‘ਦਿ ਨਿਊਜ਼ ਇੰਟਰਨੈਸ਼ਨਲ’ ਅਖ਼ਬਾਰ ਦੀ ਰਿਪੋਰਟ ਮੁਤਾਬਕ, ਹਾਰਵਰਡ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਤੋਂ ਆਏ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਇੱਕ ਵਫ਼ਦ …