A northern Alberta senior thought she was going into cardiac arrest. The medevac cost her $29K

There is no grocery store, post office or doctor’s office in remote Fitzgerald, Alta. The northern community is more than 700 kilometres northeast of Edmonton on the Slave River, near Wood Buffalo National Park. The only year-round road out of Fitzgerald links it to the Northwest Territories. The closest town with services and health care is…

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Special interlocutor still waiting for Canada’s response to report on disappeared residential school children

Canada still hasn’t responded to the independent official’s investigation that concluded children who died and were buried at Indian residential schools are not just missing but disappeared by the state, making them victims of a crime against humanity. Kimberly Murray, federally appointed as special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated…

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More organic carrots are recalled in Canada over E.coli outbreak – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded its recall of organic baby and full-size carrots due to potential E. coli contamination. On Thursday, the CFIA updated its recall notice to include an additional product: Cal-Organic Organic Juice Carrot, in the 11.34-kg size. The notice comes after…

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Singh calls on Liberals to table separate GST break legislation, wants cheques sent to more people

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he “expects” the Liberals will split their promised multi-billion-dollar affordability package into two bills to guarantee Canadians a GST holiday next month — as he and other opposition leaders push the government to increase the number of Canadians who are eligible for planned $250 rebate cheques. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week…

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Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions

The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.’s Skeena region its name because of the abundance of hazelnuts in the area.  A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is…

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