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American musician Sean Feucht has had multiple event permits for his Canadian concert tour denied or revoked by cities and Parks Canada, as some oppose his affiliation with the MAGA political movement — saying he hasn't felt "this level of resistance in a long time."

The natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains has been like medicine for Melody Gaboury Scott.The Jasper woman said being outside in nature has helped her process last year's devastating wildfire.Mental health is top of mind for many residents, officials and organizations, as the community marks the one-year anniversary of a wildfire that destroyed roughly one-third of the townsite's buildings and forced the evacuation of approximately 25,000 residents and tourists."The first time we came back, I was vibrating inside, shaking," she said."It was terrible. That's all I could say, 'This is terrible.'"Melody Gaboury Scott has lived in Jasper for about 20 years. (Craig Ryan/CBC)Gaboury Scott and her family lost their home. While they are now rebuilding, the experience of evacuating and returning to...

2 hours agoNewsDuration 10:59North American free trade is teetering on the edge of uncertainty as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to complicate how goods come and go. Andrew Chang explores signs that free trade — as we've come to know it — is on its way out, and challenges that may lie ahead in renegotiating the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.

Provincial data obtained through a freedom-of-information request reveals that the number of patients in B.C. leaving emergency rooms without receiving care has spiked by 86 per cent — with the largest increases seen in the Fraser Health and Vancouver Island Health authorities. The data reveals the number of unscheduled visits to emergency rooms across B.C.'s health authorities between 2018 and 2025, and breaks down patient visits by their Canadian triage and acuity scale (CTAS) — a system used to categorize patients based on the urgency of their case.It also includes another category of patients titled: Left Without Being Seen (LWBS). According to the numbers compiled by the B.C. Ministry of Health, in the 2018-2019 fiscal year, 76,157 patients in B.C. left emergency rooms without receivi...

Katie Maracle's nightmare has now come true.Her husband Murray Maracle is from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ont., and their only child, eight-year-old Ethan Maracle, is autistic, non-verbal and has epilepsy. He's used the Jordan's Principle initiative to access therapy and education since 2018-19.Jordan's Principle exists to ensure First Nations youth can access essential health and social services without delay or disruption, with jurisdictional questions over which government should pay to be worked out later.But that's exactly what Katie Maracle feels is happening: a disruption due to jurisdictional squabbling.She said the family was shocked to learn on May 9 that the federal government "had a timeline" for their money. The deadline had passed, meaning $60,000 in funding...

A new research project in Regina is using geo-data on discarded needles around the city and pop-up testing sites for sexually-transmitted infections to improve health-care access and reduce Saskatchewan's high rates of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis.The project is a partnership between AIDS Programs South Saskatchewan (APSS) and the University of Regina. The team said the project is the first of its kind in Canada and on Monday they invited media to a mock pop-up testing event to see how it works."We are creating maps based on discarded needles, and where there is open drug use and public drug use, and bringing the type of care people need directly to them," said Heather House, a U of R research assistant involved in the project."This is bringing care into the community and meeting people w...

In the weeks leading up to her daughter's second double lung transplant, Lisa Ali of Cole Harbour, N.S., said she was scared to answer the phone, unsure of who would be on the other end.For more than a year, she and her 20-year-old daughter, Tahlia Ali, had been living in Toronto waiting for the life-saving surgery that is not available in Nova Scotia.That wait comes at an out-of-pocket cost for Nova Scotians — once a patient is put on the transplant list, they must move to Toronto, wait for their match, and stay for months post-surgery to recover."I was living off my credit card and I had no way to pay it," said Lisa Ali in an interview. "I'm waiting for phone calls for lungs, but the only people that are calling me is creditors."The Alis are one of three Nova Scotia families who have spo...

The spread of measles both within provinces and between one another is keeping doctors and health officials across much of Canada on their toes.The pace of the outbreak is accelerating in Alberta and more than 3,400 people have been confirmed with measles there and in Ontario so far this year. Measles hangs in the air and is one of the most contagious known viruses, infectious diseases specialists say.Joseph Blondeau, head of clinical microbiology at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, says the more widespread the measles virus is in the province, the more opportunities there are for an individual who may not yet know they're infected to interact with others at social events and transmit it to others.Measles can cause fever, cough and redness of the eyes, followed by white spots next t...

Police in Deux-Montagnes, Que., say one of the vehicles found in the Mille-Îles River by the group Exploring with a Mission belongs to Robert Saint-Louis, a Laval resident who has been missing since 1988.

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