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Allison MacGillivary recounts the moment she and her family spotted a killer whale swimming backwards off the shoreline in West Vancouver.

6 hours agoNewsDuration 9:17An anonymous hotline has fielded over 20,000 calls from people across Canada who want support when using drugs alone, and as CBC’s Jennifer La Grassa uncovers, the callers who rely on the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) are not who you might think they are.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro double the risk of a severe form of vision loss among diabetics, affecting daily activities such as reading and driving.

TikTok says it has blocked search results for the hashtag "SkinnyTok"due to a high volume of content that was promoting disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss behaviours on the social media platform. "We regularly review our safety measures to address evolving risks and have blocked search results for #skinnytok since it has become linked to unhealthy weight loss content," said a statement from TikTok emailed to CBC News Wednesday."We continue to restrict videos from teen accounts and provide health experts and information in TikTok Search," the statement read. The term SkinnyTok has become widely used to describe an online subculture of influencers and content creators that promote extreme thinness.Under the umbrella of #SkinnyTok, creators make videos with snappy one-liners such as,...

As communities battle out-of-control fires in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, thousands of residents — including those in surrounding regions — are being exposed to wildfire smoke, increasing their risk for short- and long-term health effects. To date, more than 25,000 people have been forced to evacuate from the three provinces. Over two million hectares have burned so far this wildfire season, which typically runs from May to September. The smoke plumes are heaviest above northwestern Ontario and central Manitoba, but have also spread into the Upper Midwest in the United States, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.Satellite data also shows that smoke has crossed the Atlantic Ocean into parts of Europe, with more to come this week.Exposure to wildfire smoke — especially...

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In Nanyuki, a market town just northwest of Mount Kenya, some foreign aid workers and volunteers are worried what U.S. President Donald Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will mean for the people there."It's a concern. It's a real issue," said Rex Taylor, co-founder and president of The Small Project, a registered Canadian charity that helps send kids to school in rural Kenya. "In my judgment, it will mean people will die unnecessarily," he told CBC News while on an annual visit to Nanyuki.Kenya has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world, ranking 11th with a prevalence of 3.7 per cent in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. About 1.4 million Kenyans are HIV-positive, according to the non-profit Be in the Know. Amfar, the Foundation for A...