Quebec residents paid more than $10 million out of pocket to receive health care in other provinces last year. Unlike other provinces, Quebec has opted not to adopt reciprocal billing agreements with other jurisdictions for most medical services. That means Quebecers travelling outside the province have to pay for health care upfront and then submit their expenses to…
For more than 24 hours, Guy Pollock lay in a hospital bed in the hallway of Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital. The 71-year-old estimates more than 2,000 people walked past him as he was treated for pneumonia. Pollock lives with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and is immunocompromised. In an interview on Thursday, he…
Felix Auger-Aliassime beat fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo 6-2, 7-5 Wednesday in an all-Montreal matchup at the Swiss Indoors in Basel. The fifth seed fired eight aces and broke Diallo four times to advance. Diallo matched Auger-Aliassime with eight aces but won just 35 per cent of his second-serve points. Auger-Aliassime, a two-time champion at Basel…
Elections Calgary has confirmed it will be conducting a recount of Monday’s election results in Ward 12, while a similar request in Ward 9 was denied. The Ward 12 recount will start Thursday morning at 9 a.m., Elections Calgary said in a press release late Wednesday. “On examination of the unofficial results, there were sufficient…
As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared through the arena, the New York Liberty celebrated the end of a long odyssey. The team that always fell short, starting from their days in Madison Square Garden, through detours to Radio City Music Hall and Westchester County Center, finally found their way to…
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation says its council has voted against allowing athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete in qualifiers for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The decision Tuesday in Oberhofen, Switzerland by the council of the governing body, known as FIS, effectively blocks Russian skiers and snowboarders from dozens of events at…
The Parti Québécois (PQ) says holding another referendum on Quebec sovereignty is essential for maintaining social peace — even as a new survey shows most Quebecers oppose the idea. Despite 65 per cent of Quebecers indicating they would vote “No” in a sovereignty vote, PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is pushing forward with the promise…
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has spoken about how at age 11, she was so depressed about climate change she stopped talking and eating and lost 10 kilograms in two months. Here in Canada, a mother of two children in Salmon Arm, B.C., says her anxiety about the climate her kids will experience “becomes so…
Ester Ledecka, the only woman to win gold in two different sports at the same Winter Olympics, has made a tough choice for the Milan-Cortina Games. The Czech standout is skipping the alpine downhill event in order to seek a third straight Olympic gold in snowboarding’s giant slalom after all efforts failed to avoid a…
OneBC party leader and Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie is defending herself and doubling down after a photo of her denying the deaths of children at Canada’s residential schools was circulated on social media. The image, taken in front of a sign in Penticton that references the 215 suspected unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential…
