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‘Equal funding is the answer’: Eby says Ottawa must lift subsidy for B.C. ferry users

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby has called for the federal government to float more money for ferry users in British Columbia, ...

N.S. reform of care of people with disabilities behind in housing ‘complex’ cases

HALIFAX - There's been a surge in the number of Nova Scotians with complex disabilities stuck in temporary housing, according ...

Ontario family sues hospital and staff over son’s death

In early February 2024, a migraine kept Finlay van der Werken home from school. His condition got worse, and his mother took ...

America's 63 million family caregivers are mostly unpaid, stressed and begging for help

Alma Valencia is the new face of caregiving. The Pasadena, Calif., resident quit her job in the fashion industry 10 years ago to take care of her mother, who has dementia, and Valencia has been ...

The Latest: UnitedHealth says it is under a federal investigation and cooperating

Shares of UnitedHealth Group dove after the health care giant said it was under a Department of Justice investigation. The ...

In a cave in Israel, 100,000-year-old bones tell a story about the origins of burial rites

Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the ...

'We have to improve or we'll die': B.C. ranchers seek water solutions in long drought

Ranchers in B.C. are asking the province for more water storage to help crops amid increasing levels of drought. They say the ...

B.C. reports offer ‘road map’ for repatriation of Indigenous historical items

A pair of reports out of British Columbia are detailing the complex, expensive and under resourced process of repatriating Indigenous historical items or remains back to their homes.