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When Tiffany Robinson signed her daughter up for yellow school bus service this year, she expected the 12-year-old would have a reliable way to get to and from school each day, but that hasn’t been her experience. A province-wide driver shortage means like many others in Alberta, since the school year …
Read More »This single mom applied for her OSAP funding months ago. As classes begin, she’s still waiting
Amy Wesselink turned her life upside down so she could head back to school this month, but a delay in her Ontario student funding has her worried she’s going to have to drop out with nearly $8,000 in tuition fees coming due. A hairdresser and a single mom of four, Wesselink says her income sank amid COVID-19 public health measures. …
Read More »‘Dire situation’ for students waiting for housing, says president of U of C students’ union
School orientation begins at SAIT Polytechnic, Bow Valley College and the University of Calgary next week, but many students set to study in Calgary are still waiting to secure housing for the fall semester. The president of the University of Calgary Students’ Union says there were about 500 students still on the wait-list. …
Read More »Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting
In the early days of the pandemic, the federal government announced a multi-million-dollar funding agreement with the National Research Council (NRC) to expand a vaccine facility in Montreal — a site Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said would pump out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by November 2020. Two years after the prime …
Read More »A ceiling collapsed at a Toronto housing complex. Now residents could be waiting years to return home
Sharon Smith has been through a lot since having to leave her home of 21 years earlier this summer. She is one of many residents forced to leave Swansea Mews, a community housing complex just west of High Park on Windermere Avenue near the Queensway, after a ceiling collapsed and …
Read More »Toronto senior diagnosed with rare disorder after COVID vaccine last summer still waiting for compensation
Fernando Caballero misses the way he used to be: happy-go-lucky, the life of the party and the protector of his family. The 67-year-old was active and enjoyed rollerblading in the summer, ice skating in the winter and dancing all year round. But now, he uses a cane or walker to get …
Read More »Doctor’s cancelled flight to Magdalen Islands leaves 57 patients waiting months for care
Nearly 60 patients suffering from chronic pain on Quebec’s Magdalen Islands will have to wait two more months to receive specialized care after an Air Canada flight carrying a Montreal doctor was cancelled. Dr. David Landry, a radiologist at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Hospital, was due to spend a week providing specialized …
Read More »‘Mass exodus’ of psychologists from Eastern Health leaves high vacancy rate and patients waiting
Eastern Health is facing a nearly 45 per cent vacancy rate in psychology positions after a “mass exodus” of specialists for private practice. Some psychologists say the Newfoundland and Labrador government and health authority were warned it would happen but failed to rectify long-standing issues. CBC News spoke with several …
Read More »Veteran on long-term disability waiting for family doctor since 2011
A Canadian navy veteran says he’s fed up with waiting for a primary care provider after having been on Prince Edward Island’s wait-list for 11 years. Matt Dobson moved to P.E.I. in 2011 after being medically released from the navy when he was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been …
Read More »Ontario sisters still waiting for random COVID-19 border test more than a week after returning from trip
At first, Tori Nixon thought the email was a scam. In it, the federal government wrote that either Nixon or her sister had been selected for a mandatory random COVID-19 test at Toronto Pearson Airport on May 29, but that it had not been completed — and that they could face …
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