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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Biomedical researchers at the University of Manitoba working on responses to future pandemics are getting some hefty funding from the federal government. Winnipeg South MP Terry Duguid announced Thursday that more than $56 million — through the Canada Biomedical Research Fund and …
Read More »Ontario woman, who just turned 100, receives high school diploma
About eight decades after departing Caledonia High School due to a medical condition and responsibilities on her parents’ farm, Doris Young finally has a diploma. The native of Tyneside, Ont., who turned 100 in March, picked up her honour Tuesday during a short ceremony in front of River Heights Elementary …
Read More »Ontario family receives massive hospital bill as part of LTC law, refuses to pay
A southwestern Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a hospital in Windsor, Ont., after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated – and she says she has no intention of paying it. Michele Campeau and her 83-year-old mother, Ruth Poupard, are caught up in a …
Read More »Sask. Polytechnic receives $7.5 million donation for new campus – Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Polytechnic is a step closer to reaching its $100 million dollar goal to build a new centralized campus. The school received $7.5 million from Concorde Group of Companies founders and renowned philanthropists Irene Dubé and the late Leslie Dubé. The funding boost will go toward the “Time to Rise” …
Read More »Mississauga doctor receives ‘anti-Semitic death threat,’ hospital network says – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Trillium Health Partners says one if its physicians received an “anti-Semitic death threat” and Peel Regional Police are now investigating the incident. Police said the incident that happened in Mississauga and is being investigated as hate-motivated. Trillium Health Partners said that on …
Read More »Homeless hubs plan receives endorsement from London, Ont. councillors – London
The city’s first significant portion of the Health and Homelessness Whole of Community Response cleared a major hurdle Monday evening as councillors voted to endorse the proposed collaborative hubs implementation plan at a special committee meeting. Members of the strategic priorities and policy committee (SPPC) – which includes all councillors …
Read More »Boy with autism receives haircut without consent at Toronto school – Toronto
Parents of a child with autism in Toronto have decided to take him out of his current school and move him after he came home apparently distressed after an educational assistant cut his hair. “We found that he was so aggressive — and traumatized,” his mother Sara Zahan told Global …
Read More »Napanee-area long-term care centre receives no applicants for nursing position – Kingston
Managers at a long-term care home in the region were shocked when they recently posted for a nursing job and received no applications. “We’re really struggling across the board in long-term care,” said Angela Malcolm, director of long-term care services with the county of Lennox and Addington. The shortage of …
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