New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease
Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain…
Peter Nygard has phone in jail cell for constant contact with legal team, court documents reveal
Peter Nygard has been given what no other inmate at Manitoba's Headingley Correctional Centre has access to: a phone in his cell that he can use 16…
Senate’s new harassment policy ‘a gift’ for would-be abusers, senator says
The Senate's new harassment policy is "a gift" for would-be harassers because it creates a culture of secrecy that will shield wayward senators and staff from public…
How a client-therapist relationship left one Nova Scotian feeling more hurt than healed
Taron expected the counsellor would offer help to recover from complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead, more than four years after the first therapy session in a Halifax…
N.L. government won’t release COVID-19 modelling that Furey said justified election call
The Newfoundland and Labrador government is refusing to disclose COVID-19 modelling that Liberal Leader Andrew Furey said helped justify his decision to call an election amid a…
In fight against illegal fishing, Canada’s sea spies struggle with sloppy intel, bias: Internal files
They're billed as Canada's spies on the sea: an award-winning team gathering intelligence on illegal fishing.But the National Fisheries Intelligence Service, a unit with more than 100…
Canadian researchers to release recommendations for treating youth eating disorders online
Sarah White sets a timer to remind herself to eat. She sets it six times a day so that she eats three meals and three snacks.White says…
Commanding officers interfered in sexual assault investigations, retired military police officer says
A former military police officer says he faced commanding officers who interfered in his sexual assault cases and prosecutors who were reluctant to move forward with charges…
Doctor cautioned to stop encouraging people to breach pandemic public health orders
A family doctor has been cautioned by Newfoundland and Labrador's medical regulator to stop encouraging people to disobey Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald's health…
Canada and New Zealand both have hot housing markets, but only 1 has plan to cool things down
The idea that Canadian residential real estate prices are rising at an unsustainable pace is no longer just a subject for Twitter rants and COVID-era chats with…
Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of charter rights, an investigation…