Unpublished Newswire
Ottawa's Sri Lankan community is rallying to raise funds to support their homeland, which has been struck by a devastating cyclone.
December 1, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
CBC News spoke with five paramedics who say they’ve been sent out to respond to 911 calls unnecessarily — either because the call had already been handled by another team and reappeared in the system, or because several ambulances were dispatched to the same call. Urgences-santé, meanwhile, insists there’s been no impact on patient care since the system was implemented.
December 1, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Strict criminal trial deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada are derailing about 10,000 cases a year, a list that includes several alleged murders and hundreds of alleged sexual assaults, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.The dire situation has led the federal government and the three biggest provinces to call on the Supreme Court to provide some leeway on the time limits, called Jordan deadlines, in a drug-trafficking case to be heard at the top court in Ottawa on Thursday.
December 1, 2025 - 04:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
Alberta’s Official Opposition on Sunday said a Globe and Mail story documenting ties between Premier Danielle Smith’s government and an Edmonton businessman underscore the need for a public inquiry into the province’s health care procurement practices.New Democratic Party Leader Naheed Nenshi said The Globe’s investigation detailing links between executive Sam Mraiche and Ms. Smith’s government reveal “deep, deep, deep” ties worthy of further examination.
November 30, 2025 - 22:04 | Carrie Tait, Tom Cardoso, Matthew Scace | The Globe and Mail
Cleanup is still underway east of Cranbrook, B.C., after a train derailment caused a propane leak and forced the evacuation of some rural properties along the Kootenay River this weekend.
November 30, 2025 - 21:24 | | CBC News - Canada
British Columbia will require anyone receiving prescribed alternatives to illicit drugs to ingest them under the supervision of a health care provider, tightening the reins on a program that has faced considerable barriers to expansion and sustained political pushback. The B.C. government is expected to announce this week that, beginning Dec. 30, anyone with a prescription for a regulated illicit drug alternative, also called safer supply, will need to take the medication in front of a pharmacist or nurse when that medication is dispensed at a pharmacy, according to a document obtained...
November 30, 2025 - 21:24 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
