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This First Person column is written by Karli Jahn, a master’s student at Athabasca University who is writing her thesis on weight stigma in counselling interventions. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. “Are you sure you have an eating disorder?” the doctor asked me. …
Read More »Surrey woman says she had miscarriage at hospital after doctor told her to go home
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Kirandeep Kaur Mangat was preparing to go to bed on May 12 when she started experiencing severe pain. Mangat, who lives in Surrey, B.C., and was 18 weeks pregnant at the time, called 911. After being advised that the ambulance wait times were anywhere from 25 minutes to …
Read More »Family stuck in long wait for N.B. Medicare card told to pay $30,000 bill in 30 days
Charlotte McGee and her family have accumulated more than $30,000 in medical bills while waiting for their New Brunswick Medicare cards, and they’re now being told to pay up. McGee relocated last year to Saint Andrews from Maine with her husband, Brody, a nurse who used to live in New …
Read More »Mom had no idea Indigenous daughter was in jail until staff told her she was dead, Ontario inquest told
WARNING: This story contains references to suicide. Selina McIntyre only learned daughter Delilah Blair was in a Windsor, Ont., jail when staff called to let her know the 30-year-old Indigenous woman had died, a coroner’s inquest was told Tuesday. A correctional officer found Blair without vital signs in her cell at the South …
Read More »Elderly tenants told to vacate Fredericton apartments for Airbnb-style conversions
A senior Fredericton couple and their elderly neighbour, whose plight with rent increases last winter helped push the New Brunswick government to enhance tenant protections, are facing the loss of their apartments for good. Pauline Tramble, 67, her husband Charles, 85 and their neighbour Tayfun Orkus, 83 all received notices …
Read More »503 scratch ticket winners in B.C. were falsely told they hadn’t won, lottery corp says
Because of a system error, 503 people who played a new scratch-and-win game in B.C. this week were wrongly told they weren’t winners, according to the provincial lottery corporation. Everyone who purchased a “$3 Road to Riches” ticket on Monday should recheck their tickets to see if they won a …
Read More »Kannur Medical College told to pay Rs 40 crore compensation, Health News, ET HealthWorld
KOCHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Kannur Medical College to deposit Rs 40.72 crore towards compensation for the 92 students who are yet to be compensated for the 2016-17 MBBS admissions that were cancelled for violating norms regarding NEET-based ranking and online, centralized admission system. A bench comprising …
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