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Volunteers are recalling a frantic weekend effort to help drivers stranded for hours in northern Alberta as whiteout conditions made travel nearly impossible. Andrew Laidlaw, part of a volunteer group that went out to assist those stuck, said the situation escalated quickly. “At first, it didn’t look like it was …

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When Dave Evans underwent surgery to remove a pituitary gland tumour last October, his surgical team worked within an area roughly the size of a thumbnail.  In that tiny space near the base of Evans’s brain, neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Duggal and other clinicians at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) …

China’s latest blueprint for driving growth in its economy was largely written before the U.S. and Israel instigated the most far-reaching war in the Middle East in decades. But when Chinese Premier Li Qiang stood up in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday to deliver the opening address …

Mark Kalinowski has been a credit counsellor for nearly 14 years, helping people of all generations manage their debt. But this year, more than a quarter of the clients he saw in his Calgary office were under the age of 35. “They’ll come in and sometimes they’ll cry, sometimes they’ll …

The Democrats are promising to investigate how President Donald Trump and his administration moved ahead with a White House demolition that has proceeded at a rapid pace, as Americans have posted “RIP East Wing 1902-2025” on social media platforms. The East Wing was essentially fully gone by Thursday, after construction …

The Saskatchewan government is boosting support it’s giving to wildfire evacuees, while officials say light rain and cooler temperatures this weekend could help keep some of the province’s larger fires in check. Bryan Chartrand with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency told a news conference in Prince Albert, Sask., on Saturday …

For decades, Sherri Topple’s world was overshadowed by the crushing weight of depression that no medication or therapy seemed to fix. It wasn’t until she tried ketamine therapy that she finally felt a sense of relief.  At her worst, the Nova Scotia woman says she could barely muster up the …

The Canadian Red Cross is assisting with evacuee registration and providing meals and emergency accommodations for Saskatchewan residents fleeing wildfires. “It’s been hard to find places for people with so many people evacuating [communities] all at one,” said Luc Mullinder, Canadian Red Cross vice-president for Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nunavut, in an CBC News …