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WARNING: This article contains details of child abuse. Manitoba’s families minister is conducting an internal investigation into the circumstances that led to a six-year-old girl in foster care suffering injuries that may lead to her being paralyzed for life, search warrant documents show. Nahanni Fontaine characterized what occurred to the …
Read More »Desperate parents needing baby formula turn to online strangers as Canadian prices nearly double since 2017
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Cassandra Shedden has sometimes had to rummage around her home, looking for things to hawk, just to pay for baby formula. The 33-year-old mother of three in …
Read More »Mystery illness has Manitoba parents seeking genetic answers in Florida
It was only a week after Beau Friesen was born that his parents knew something was wrong. Two years later, they still do not know what that is. Now, the Grunthal, Man., couple are heading to Florida in search of answers. As an infant, Beau was throwing up and had …
Read More »As more schools bring police officers back to classrooms, parents remain divided
As police officers return to Greater Victoria School District 61 this fall, high school principal Heather Brown is among those welcoming them back. When her school board ended its School Police Liaison Officer (SPLO) program two years ago, the administrator in Saanich, B.C., could still access police in emergencies, but felt she’d lost a …
Read More »Lyle Menendez denied parole in parents’ 1989 murder a day after brother Erik also rejected
Lyle Menendez received the same recommendation as his brother Erik when he was denied parole Friday after serving decades in prison for the murder of their parents in 1989. A panel of two commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case …
Read More »Parole denied for Erik Menendez despite reduced sentence in parents’ 1989 murders
Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after serving decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989. A panel of California commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public. A parole …
Read More »Plan to accept newcomer parents and grandparents will strain health services, Alberta warns
Alberta’s immigration minister says he’s concerned about the federal government’s plan this year to accept thousands of parents and grandparents of immigrants already in Canada. Joseph Schow responded Tuesday to a federal notice that Ottawa plans to take in 10,000 applications from those who have previously expressed interest in sponsoring …
Read More »With measles outbreaks growing in Canada, this mother pleads with parents to vaccinate
Rebecca Archer lovingly places a pair of small glasses on a shelf filled with memorabilia like trinkets and photos. They belonged to her 10-year-old daughter, Renae, who suddenly died after a measles infection. “She was just really intelligent. Just a really happy child, always smiling,” she remembers. Renae was just five months …
Read More »Chappell Roan sparks controversy saying parents are ‘in hell,’ but is she wrong?
It’s always nice to get some outside validation, right? At least, that’s how some people are reacting after pop superstar Chappell Roan recently said parents seem pretty miserable — “in hell,” actually. Roan’s hot take, which she made on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast last week, have some stressed parents saying they …
Read More »Parents of teen burned at Saskatoon school question how police, school officials handled multiple warnings
The parents of two 15-year-old girls at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon say they went to police and the school multiple times between June and August 2024 with concerns about escalating online threats from the student now accused of setting one of the girls on fire in a school hallway. …
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