5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (235+ words) Every year, the third week of July is marked as the National Drowning Prevention Week encouraging businesses and individuals to practice and learn prevention measure while on or near water. According to the 2025 National Drowning Report, over 450 Canadians drown each…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (90+ words) A Calgary company is facing charges after a worker slipped and fell, seriously injuring himself, while undertaking a job in Rocky View County. According to Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), the charges against 1874015 Alberta Ltd., also known as Elev8tion Builders,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (584+ words) Rocky View County is renewing the development permit application for a care facility operating with an single detached home located in the Balzac East Area Structure Plan. Located approximately 0.81 km north of Highway 566 and 0.81 km east of Range Road 293 on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (360+ words) While a good many of the Smith government’s recent moves have been anything but universally applauded, recently-announced plans to continue supporting youth suicide prevention in Alberta is welcome in the community-at-large. The 2026-27 Youth Suicide Prevention Grant program will see $2 million…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (366+ words) MONTREAL — Montreal public health is warning of an uptick in Lyme disease in the city after officials recorded 161 cases in 2025. That's the highest number of cases since 2003, when Lyme infections because a notifiable disease in Quebec. The tick-born disease is…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (506+ words) A group of Canadian researchers says the amount of powdery pollen released by plants during their reproduction process has gone up across Canada in recent years and is exacerbating allergies from hay fever to hives. Daniel Coates, director of Aerobiology…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1083+ words) Charuka Maheswaran was 29 when she met the man she would later marry, have three children with, and who she said eventually beat and strangled her. "He pushed me up against the counter and I could feel the counter in my…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (464+ words) TORONTO — New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province's auditor general concluded in a special report released Tuesday. Shelley Spence said the so-called "AI scribe" software was not evaluated…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (583+ words) British Columbia's provincial health officer says none of the Canadians who were on a ship struck by an outbreak of deadly hantavirus had known direct contact with anyone who was infected. But Dr. Bonnie Henry said it was impossible to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (478+ words) MONTREAL — A Quebec City-based pharmacy chain says it will remove energy drinks from its store shelves amid growing calls for the Quebec government to ban the sale of the high-caffeine beverages to children. The Familiprix chain, which includes 455 affiliated pharmacies…...