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This is Part 1 of CBC Calgary’s coverage of the growing waitlist for kids with disabilities. An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy for autism and various …
Read More »He was abused by a priest. He’s still waiting on compensation
Timothy Clark felt a growing sense of duty. To say something, to protect others. So he popped some coins into a school payphone and dialed the number for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax. It was 1984 and he was 14 years old. A member of the archdiocese office staff …
Read More »More than 67,500 Ontario kids waiting for core autism funding as demand grows
One of the first things Deny Soto was told after her son was diagnosed with autism was “get on the list.” The Toronto mom didn’t really know what she was signing up for in 2022, but she listened. Now, four years later, her nine-year-old son Nico Tsirigotis is still on …
Read More »His heart stopped in a St. John’s emergency room after waiting more than 8 hours, now he’s calling for change
After a more than eight-hour wait at one emergency department in St. John’s, and a wild ride across the city to a second one, Paul Reid saw his heart monitor go berserk before he lost consciousness. The next thing he remembers is looking up and seeing a large man above …
Read More »‘We are waiting for something better to come’: Venezuelans face the future of their country
Carlos Pérez said people in his Venezuelan city of San Cristóbal, which sits near the border with Colombia, are still trying to live their normal lives, despite the uncertainty that now shrouds the country following a U.S. military strike over the weekend. Pérez, 66, said Venezuelans have grown accustomed to …
Read More »‘It’s like Groundhog Day’: Waiting decades for justice in India’s overburdened court system
The frustration and weariness crept into Sanjay Goel’s voice as he stared at the giant stack of handwritten court documents in front of him. He was on one of his countless visits from Vancouver to Mumbai, India, to fight for justice in the brutal killing of his mother and was …
Read More »4 years after Indigenous woman died in Niagara hospital waiting room, family still waits for coroner’s inquest
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Four years after a 24-year-old Indigenous woman died in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital, her family …
Read More »This N.S. woman has been waiting almost 2 years to bring 23 family members fleeing Gaza
A Palestinian woman in Halifax, N.S., is making an impassioned plea for Ottawa to step up efforts to get people safely out of war-torn Gaza, about 20 months after applying to bring her family to Canada under a temporary visa program. Najlaa Alzaanin, who hasn’t seen 23 family members since …
Read More »He’s still waiting for FOI records Toronto police said he could have last summer, requested in 2020
Jamie Jelinski feels a bit like David — and the Toronto police are his Goliath. The trouble is, he’s worried that this time Goliath might win. Jelinski filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to Toronto police in June 2020 for records concerning the facial recognition technology Clearview AI after …
Read More »Why your city is still waiting on e-buses — and how tariffs could make things worse
Electric bus manufacturers hit hard by pandemic-era supply chain chaos could soon find themselves pummelled by a trade war. “The immediate effect of the [U.S. President] Donald Trump tariffs is buses become more expensive overnight,” said Josipa Petrunic, the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium …
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