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Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table.
“Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.”
In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean section. She suffered an anoxic brain injury: for crucial minutes, her brain was deprived of oxygen.
Her baby boy lived. But today, Sophia cannot speak, cannot walk, cannot turn herself in bed. Her mother is her primary caregiver and has been trying to teach her to communicate by pointing to pictures.
Samantha, one year Sophia’s...
April 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
Deborah Meister, Executive Archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, knows that many members of her faith are, to put it bluntly, old.
“People who have been hanging on faithfully and practicing their faith and sharing their love of Christ with one another and with their neighbours all their lives,” she says. “Many of them have reached the point where they’re no longer able to attend church regularly because they’re in senior homes, or they have limited mobility.”
But there’s another group within what she deems a “bifurcated” religion.
“We are also seeing the rise of people I...
April 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
The death of an Ottawa man earlier this year while waiting for home care is under investigation, Ontario’s Minister of Health Sylvia Jones confirmed. Read More
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
Heidi Miller, who has lived in a Montreal co-op for 20 years, warns income caps will evict stable members and destroy the co-op self-management model.
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
The Ontario government is looking to give itself the power to set transit fares across the province, a move some in Toronto are celebrating as a step towards a more integrated transit system in the GTA — while others are apprehensive about what the move could mean for the TTC.
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The Ontario government is looking to give itself the power to set transit fares across the province, a move some in Toronto are celebrating as a step towards a more integrated transit system in the GTA — while others are apprehensive about what the move could mean for the TTC.
April 3, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
