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A man who lives in a Regina apartment building says the carbon monoxide detector in his unit sounded just hours before another tenant, an 11-year-old boy, died in the building. The man said he contacted maintenance staff in the early afternoon as the alarm beeped and was told to “open …
Read More »Lawsuit against Nova Scotia for flood response says boy’s death ‘preventable’ – Halifax
The mother of a boy who died during flash flooding in Nova Scotia is suing the province for negligence, in the latest instance of a citizen trying to hold government accountable for alleged failures during a climate disaster. Tera Sisco, the mother of six-year-old Colton Sisco — who was swept …
Read More »Every 22 minutes a Canadian woman dies of a heart attack. Most of those deaths are preventable
Every 22 minutes, a woman in Canada dies of a heart attack. But the majority don’t have to, experts say, warning that more women will die unnecessarily if the medical community doesn’t tailor care to their needs. “We have one of the best health-care systems in the world, and we’re …
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