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The Liberal government is facing a tough fiscal position heading into the 2024 budget, according to new projections from the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Ottawa is simultaneously dealing with rising debt costs and a slowing economy, both of which are fuelled by decades-high interest rates from the Bank of Canada as …
Read More »Penticton daycare centre closes to make room for larger child-care facility – Okanagan
An early learning education program in Penticton, B.C., has officially closed down to make room for a larger child-care facility. Bugaboo University has been offering daycare at the Penticton Community Centre for nearly 10 years, and the last day of Bugaboo was on Friday, Dec. 15. “Bugaboo University has been …
Read More »On the Brink: Retiree living in converted laundry room feels ‘overlooked’ amid housing crisis
This is the fourth instalment of a Global News series called ‘On The Brink,’ which profiles people who are struggling with the rising cost of living. In this story, a senior living in a converted laundry room talks about the challenges of trying to find a better place to live. …
Read More »Manitoba NDP emergency room plan just one piece of health-care puzzle, experts say – Winnipeg
A promise by Manitoba’s Opposition New Democrats to re-open three Winnipeg emergency rooms that were converted into urgent care centres in 2017 is a step toward re-establishing faith in the province’s health-care system, experts say, but is only one piece of the puzzle. In an announcement Monday, NDP Leader Wab …
Read More »‘A smile that could light up a room’: Ontario community reeling after boy’s tragic death
Heather Payne, owner-operator of SubZero Ice Cream in St. Thomas, Ont., says the tragic collision that claimed the life of a boy less than a week away from turning 12 years old, happened just across the street from her shop. Her business is one of several in the community finding …
Read More »Police charge man with voyeurism in connection with Toronto changing room incident – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police have arrested a man and charged him with voyeurism. Investigators with Toronto police alleged the 38-year-old man was caught attempting to use his phone to see inside a woman’s changing room in the Bloor and Dufferin streets area of Toronto after …
Read More »Inside SickKids: As the operating room sits quiet, staff worry about growing backlog
TORONTO — Three large television screens in the nerve centre of the operating room at Canada’s largest pediatric hospital display a list of its surgical spaces, showing which ones have children undergoing procedures at the moment. There are a lot of blank spots. Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children usually runs …
Read More »Family doctors deny they’re causing Ontario’s emergency room problems
Family doctors are pushing back against claims that they are partly responsible for the woes of hospital emergency rooms across Ontario by limiting patients’ in-person appointments. Ontario Health has just released a new set of statistics showing another month of record-high wait times in the province’s emergency departments. The figures show …
Read More »Solutions to Ontario emergency room waits are found beyond hospital ERs
If you’ve spent hours waiting to see a doctor in an Ontario emergency room, or days in the ER waiting to get admitted to hospital, you likely didn’t see the real factors driving those delays. That’s because the record-high wait times in emergency departments in this province are in large part …
Read More »Overcrowded Grace Hospital emergency room ‘at the breaking point,’ nurse says
When Jan Wynn was told her father, a patient at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg, was being moved from a treatment area, she was thrilled. But when she didn’t hear an update for a while, she went straight to a desk at the emergency department. “It turned out I walked right past him and didn’t even …
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