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Stars Who Brought Family Members to the Grammys Through the Years: Photos
Step aside, significant others! Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé and Pink are among the celebrities who invited family members to attend the Grammy Awards with...
Why Canada is divided over reopening despite controlling COVID-19
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you...
Doctors worry they won’t be able to help every cancer patient diagnosed, treated late due to COVID-19
Around the end of June last year, Karen Townsend started to experience abdominal pain. At the time, she could only book a phone...
More Canadians hospitalized from substance use since pandemic started, report finds
More Canadians have ended up in the hospital after using substances like opioids, alcohol and stimulants during the pandemic than they have in years past....
As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care
Hospitals are shifting critically ill patients around, looking for any empty bed. Nurses and doctors are putting in exhaustion-defying amounts of overtime. Some...
22-yr-old Winnipeg man hospitalized with coronavirus variant hopes his story will serve as warning
If you think you can’t get seriously ill from COVID-19 because you’re young and healthy, think again. That’s the message a 22-year-old Winnipeg man...
Vancouver Canucks says ‘no culprit’ in team’s COVID-19 outbreak
The Vancouver Canucks team physician said the player who first contracted COVID-19 and then brought it into the team acted within NHL and...
Top doctor predicts all Sask. people 18 and over could get 1st COVID vaccine dose by mid-May
Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer is predicting that by mid-May, all residents in the province aged 18 and over could have access to...
Why comparing COVID hospitalization numbers between provinces isn’t apple-to-apples
The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and intensive care has been on the rise in many provinces lately, but comparing these numbers...
Study suggests vaccines may improve symptoms for some COVID-19 long-haulers
Elaine McCartney typically keeps a list on hand of her 30 or so health issues following a bout of COVID-19 a year ago— in...
No charges in death of Ejaz Choudry, 62-year-old shot and killed by police while in crisis
Ontario’s police watchdog has ruled there will be no criminal charges against police in the death of a 62-year-old father of four who was...
B.C. boy permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli
E. coli outbreaks used to mainly be linked to hamburgers, but the last decade has seen recall after recall of tainted romaine lettuce...
Canadians shouldn’t shop around for vaccines with higher efficacy rates, experts say
The approval of a fourth vaccine in Canada should not give Canadians the green light to hold off on getting inoculated in order to wait...
Health Canada approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine
After a months-long review, Health Canada regulators today approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University-AstraZeneca for use in Canada — clearing the way...
RCMP launch criminal probe into COVID-19 death tied to massive Alberta meat plant outbreak
Ariana Quesada, 16, walked into the RCMP detachment in High River, Alta., on Friday and filed a formal complaint asking police to investigate...
Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and 56 new deaths related to the illness. The figure marks the first...
