On Friday morning, Kingston Police cruisers sat parked outside the city’s Integrated Care Hub (ICH) and a tall fence that was erected overnight surrounded the site, lined with tents and other temporary shelters. It was a very different scene than the previous morning when the area was wrapped in yellow police tape and paramedics stood by as police officers engaged…
British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses. Federal Health Minister Mark Holland said B.C.’s portion of the $1.5-billion national plan is estimated to be $195 million, and under the memorandum of understanding, funding could begin by April once the legislation makes…
The family of a Mi’kmaw man killed by police Sunday in Elsipogtog First Nation say officers used excessive force when they should have been trying to help him. Steven “Iggy” Dedam, a 34-year-old father and fisherman, was shot and killed by an RCMP officer during a wellness check in the community about 55 kilometres north of Moncton. “He loved gatherings with his…
OTTAWA: Health Canada has issued a recall for vitamins and medication sold by a Canadian pharmaceutical brand, according to notices this week. The agency has warned consumers to avoid taking certain tablets of Vitamin D3, acetaminophen and telmisartan tablets from Quebec’s JAMP Pharma. “Affected lots may contain overweight or underweight tablets,” read the notice for the vitamin D3….
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says a resident who died in August of brain inflammation had the eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, a mosquito-borne disease that’s rarely spread to humans. Like the West Nile virus, EEE is typically transmitted between wild birds and mosquitoes, according to OPH. It sometimes infects horses, hence its name, but is seldom passed on to…
As It Happens7:39Man who received world’s 1st eye and face transplant says it changed his life Aaron James can’t stop looking at himself in the mirror. The 47-year-old U.S. military veteran and electrical lineman was badly injured in a workplace accident in June 2021 that destroyed his left eye, chin, nose, lips and left arm, and…
The bowl of free condoms in the student office might need to be dusted off. A recent report based on surveys of 15-year-olds in 42 countries, including Canada, shows what the World Health Organization called a worrying decline in the use of condoms, which provide protection from unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In Canada, roughly two-thirds…
A man from the Toronto area says he feared for his life when police officers in Laval, Que., wrestled him to the ground, pepper-sprayed him, used a stun gun on him and placed a spit mask over his face. Gulaid Mahdi Omar, 31, said the incident left him concussed and shaken, but he says he did nothing…
A woman who died of a drug overdose in an RCMP jail cell had asked officers twice if she could be taken to hospital, a report from B.C.’s police watchdog says. The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) report says Burnaby RCMP responded to a call on March 6 that a woman who appeared to be intoxicated was…
Canada’s military ombudsman has launched a review of the Department of National Defence’s (DND) treatment of former language and cultural advisers who served alongside Canadian troops in Afghanistan. In a letter to Defence Minister Bill Blair, the acting watchdog, Robyn Hynes, said while her office has met with department staff several times over the past year,…
