Health Canada has issued a public advisory warning the public not to buy prescription medication unless it’s sold from a licensed pharmacy. The advisory comes in the wake of a Health Canada raid at Ezra Healing in Kelowna, B.C. It states that using the unauthorized drugs may come with serious health risks. “Health Canada had…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The shipbuilder contracted to deliver Toronto’s long-awaited, $92-million electric ferries is facing forgery charges and allegations of violating Russian sanctions in the Netherlands that the city only learned of this week, according…
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Hockey Canada unveiled the Olympic hockey jerseys on Thursday for the men’s, women’s and Para teams that will compete at the Milan-Cortina Games. Both the red and while uniforms display maple leaf…
After years of urging Ottawa to reduce the number of non-permanent residents in the province, Quebec is now saying the federal government has gone too far. On Thursday, Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said Ottawa’s latest measures to curb temporary immigration, particularly cuts to the temporary foreign worker program, have pushed many Quebec businesses into “deplorable”…
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A local official says small communities on Kamloops Lake in British Columbia have been shutting down their intakes from the waterway after it was revealed that more than 80,000 litres of aviation…
Para hockey player Raphaëlle Tousignant, the first woman to play for Canada in a major international competition, says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “I never thought I would say those words again — not now, not anytime soon. But life has its own plans,” she wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “About…
As industry leaders in Saskatchewan are weighing up the federal government’s budget, they say many boxes are checked while others are left empty. Agriculture producers in the province say they are pleased with the budget’s focus on the farming industry, especially in local infrastructure investments. But the president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan…
Downsizing the government, upping defence spending and … getting Canada into Eurovision? Alongside many major line items, yesterday’s federal budget teased that the government is working with CBC/Radio-Canada to explore Canada’s participation in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, where international singers battle it out by performing original songs, competing under a country’s flag. Two government…
Monica Wright Rogers’s face lights up. The Toronto Tempo general manager had just introduced Sandy Brondello as the team’s inaugural head coach minutes earlier on Tuesday at a press conference in downtown Toronto, and she was already thinking about what that could mean for a roster that is currently blank. “We want to take advantage…
Despite Calgary only receiving a single mention in the more than 400-page document, there’s cautious optimism at city hall and amongst stakeholders regarding Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget. Carney’s federal Liberal government tabled its first budget on Tuesday, which projects a deficit of around $78.3 billion this year with $141.4 billion in new…
