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Emergency officials issued a dire warning to Calgarians on Friday as a water supply emergency — brought on by a massive water main break earlier in the week — still has no timeline to be resolved. “This current level of water use cannot continue, … (or we will be) at …

Sam O’Reilly scored once and added an assist as the London Knights edged the Moose Jaw Warriors 5-4 to earn their second win at the 2024 Memorial Cup tournament in Saginaw, Mich. The Warriors made things tight late but London held through the final 3:55 of the game. Easton Cowan …

A Winnipeg school has restructured its school day to address learning and absenteeism. Last week, Isaac Newton School changed its school-day structure so students will spend the majority of the day with one teacher and one classroom, rather than switching between teachers and classrooms throughout the day. The school’s administration …

A frequent West Kelowna, B.C.,  flyer is pushing for Air Canada to change its pet policy after the airline told him he couldn’t fly with his small dog, even with the proper carrier. The traveller says Air Canada is inconsistent with its policy, as he was able to get on …

A new multi-million dollar state-of-the-art CT scanner at Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH)  is expected to increase access to timely diagnoses and treatments in B.C.’s North Okanagan. “There isn’t a single area of medicine that CT scans are not used … in neurology for strokes and emergency for strokes and trauma …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Churchill Nothern Studies Centre is hoping to make polar bear research easier with an $83,000 grant from Canadian Polar Bear Habitat, a charity, which the centre is using to buy buses to take researchers and visitors into the field. “We’re located …

Environment Canada says poor, smoky air quality in Toronto is set to improve from the west to east through the day. The City of Toronto on Saturday morning was under an air quality special statement due to forest fire smoke, with the haze causing “high levels” of pollution in the …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The province says a new program that combines two previously successful psychiatric care pilot projects will reduce barriers to those in need. Manitoba’s community wellness minister, Janice Morley-Lecomte, announced the Rural Emergent Telepsychiatry and Integrated Virtual Ward Program, which will receive $2.4 …

WARNING: This story contains references to suicide.   Three months after Robert Martin died by suicide in his family home in April 2022, the Chatham, Ont., hospital where he had been treated is now taking steps to improve its mental health care services.  While it doesn’t erase the horrible pain of losing …

NEW DELHI: The government of India (GOI) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a 300 million dollar loan to improve primary health care in urban areas of 13 states that will benefit over 256 million urban dwellers including 51 million from slum areas. As per an official release by …