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Nova Scotia residents can no longer file complaints about their municipal elected officials, a move one advocate calls “dangerously undemocratic.” Last Tuesday, the province made changes to the municipal code of conduct it said stemmed from feedback from municipalities. Those changes included a clause stating that a complaint “may only …
Read More »Nearly half of First Nations people off-reserve say rising prices impact ability to meet expenses
In a new Statistics Canada survey, 49 per cent of First Nations people living off-reserve, 44 per cent of Métis and 44 per cent of Inuit who responded reported rising prices affected their ability to meet day-to-day expenses. The data from the Survey Series on First Nations People, Métis and Inuit, …
Read More »A Manitoban is losing his ability to move his muscles. A drug might prevent that, but the province won’t pay
The first thing Jeremy Bray does every morning is check whether he can still move his left thumb. He wakes up daily with the fear he may have lost the only way he has to operate his wheelchair, maintain a job and live independently. Bray has spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative …
Read More »Ontario Pharmacists Association says ability to prescribe birth control should be next
Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Pharmacists in Ontario can now diagnose and treat 19 common ailments but they still can’t prescribe birth control or emergency contraception. Ontario Pharmacists Association CEO Justin Bates says the ability to prescribe those medications is necessary to address women’s health …
Read More »Canadian men confident in ability to compete at high level, surprise World Cup opponents
While Canada may be diving into the deep end against No. 2 Belgium on Wednesday at the World Cup, the team belief appears strong on the eve of its plunge. “We don’t hope no more, we believe,” veteran midfielder Jonathan Osorio told reporters after training Sunday. ‘And we’re very confident …
Read More »Scientists warn future temperatures will test humans’ ability to survive
Unbearably hot temperatures are already testing the limits of human survival, and will continue to rise, challenging our bodies’ ability to cope and making parts of the world increasingly uninhabitable. Scientists say urgent steps are needed for humans to adapt to extreme heat, including rethinking the way we live, work and blast the AC. “Extreme …
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