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Doctors believe there’s a one-in-four shot that human bodies and brains suspended in deep freeze could be successfully revived in the future, and most support intervening, pre-death, to improve “preservation outcomes,” a new survey suggests. “Medicine often faces a tragic temporal mismatch: while approximately 70 per cent of terminally ill patients have a strong will-to-live despite their impending deaths, treatments that could meaningfully extend their lives may remain years or decades away from development,” the authors wrote in the journal, PLoS One. Thus, hundreds of people,...
May 20, 2026 - 14:22 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
Gerald L. Pocha will serve a community-based sentence of two years less a day after pleading guilty to criminal negligence causing bodily harm for the dog attack in August 2024.
May 20, 2026 - 14:12 | | CBC News - Canada
Ottawa is looking at overhauling the express entry system to make it easier for people with high-paying job offers to apply for permanent residency.
May 20, 2026 - 13:57 | | CBC News - Canada
Ontario will ban the use and purchase of Chinese-made drones by the government and provincial police amid "growing security and privacy concerns" with foreign-made technology.
May 20, 2026 - 13:49 | | CBC News - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said there is momentum behind his nation-building agenda after receiving criticism from British Columbia Premier David Eby over the possible construction of a pipeline to his province’s coast. “What we’re trying to accomplish, and I think we’re really getting momentum now across the country, is we don’t want to hear what people are against, we want to hear what they’re for,” said Carney, during a Q&A in front of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Wednesday. “And if you’re for something, we will get behind you,” he added. Last week, Carney...
May 20, 2026 - 13:47 | Jordan Gowling | National Post
The City of Ottawa continues to show that the National Capital Region is Canada's Defence Innovation Hub. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe convened allied ambassadors and diplomats along with the city’s economic development agency, Invest Ottawa, for a briefing at Ottawa City Hall this morning.
Representatives from 17 foreign missions were in attendance and received presentation on Ottawa-Gatineau’s Defence Innovation Hub Strategy. The briefing highlighted the region’s position as the country's centre of gravity for defence investment, capability development, and allied partnership.
The...
May 20, 2026 - 13:32 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
