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Megan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation because of her daughter’s school zone. “I can put her in school, but I’d…lose my job because there is no before-and-after-school care available at the …

Between respiratory virus season and a critical nursing shortage, it’s the perfect storm for health care in the province, the Manitoba Nurses Union president says. Darlene Jackson told Global Winnipeg the holidays were slammed for nurses, with a record 77 patients waiting to be triaged in the Health Sciences Centre …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba RCMP are searching for a missing woman who was last in the rural municipality of Piney. Officers with the RCMP branch in Sprague, Man., were called to check in on the well-being of a senior on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Despite …

After revealing she was sexually assaulted by a former colleague and friend, political powerhouse Catherine Fournier is speaking out. “I want victims to know they’re not alone,” Fournier, 31, said. “That even a woman in the public sphere, a political figure can be a victim of sexual assault and choose …

As part of an annual festival celebrating winter, Ottawa’s Sparks Street has been lined in recent weeks with ice sculptures depicting everything from animals and flowers to a Tim Hortons cup. But by the time Winterlude wrapped up this past weekend, some of those works of art had been rendered …

There are growing concerns from Iranian-Canadians who say they are being threatened, monitored and even followed at protests and outside their homes by affiliates of the Iranian regime who are here in Canada.  “They know the view out of my apartment. They said it was a school. That I have …

Ontarians have been enjoying stunning orange, yellow and red fall colours this season and experts say the foliage is more vibrant than in recent years largely thanks to specific weather patterns. Sean Thomas, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Toronto, says the fall colours in Toronto this year have …

The province of Ontario made more than a half a billion dollars from the cannabis industry in the last fiscal year, according to public accounts released by the government on Friday. But that $520 million is coming at least partially at the expense of struggling local retailers, according to Michael Armstrong, a …

Earlier this week, when Chris Green walked into his Inglewood workshop, in a garage with no air conditioning, it was already a toasty 30 C, he says. Green is a bladesmith — a blacksmith who makes custom knives — and he spends his days in front of a forge hot enough to bend …

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 …