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Election day is less than two weeks away, but Rowena Edwards is still unsure who she should vote for."Honestly, I don't like any candidates," the 63-year-old told CBC News through an email interview.Edwards is one of more than eight million Canadians living with a disability. She says she spends around 20 hours a day in a hospital bed at home in Sherwood Park, Alta. — by herself and unable to work. She says she feels forgotten by Canada's federal party leaders."Our leaders don't even think about us," she said. "I have no faith that things will change for us." She's not the only person who feels that way. Disability activist and retired lawyer David Lepofsky, who is blind, says people with disabilities are victims of a "vicious cycle that muzzles their voice."Activists are calling on federa...

The former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says major funding cuts to the agency could lead to more cases of diseases like paralytic polio and malaria. In an interview airing Sunday on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Samantha Power described the consequences of the Trump administration's decision to gut the agency's funding."There's really no words," Power, who was the head of the agency during the Biden administration, told chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton."The estimates are now 200,000 more cases of paralytic polio," she said of the impact of the administration's cancelled USAID contracts."Malaria increases, probably as many as 166,000 deaths per year."Power hugs a person after laid-off USAID workers cleared out their desks and collected pe...