Few outside journalists have been able to enter Gaza, but developments in satellite technology over the past decade have made it possible to accurately assess from space the destruction brought by the …
On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D’Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive …
The experience of a woman in Shanghai who sent her cancer-stricken father to a hospice ward, facing pressure from relatives for not arranging further medical treatment, has triggered a debate …
After Dr. Deena Hinshaw was briefly hired and quickly removed from a position with an Indigenous health team at Alberta Health Services earlier this year, more than 100 physicians signed …
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) announced a widespread salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupes on Nov. 1. Since then, it’s been investigating infections in eight provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, …
With last week’s confirmation from Ontario’s auditor general of a steep increase in spending on agency nurses in some hospitals, others say they’ve managed to steer clear of the trend altogether. Auditor General Nick …
Cost of Living8:55The return of the bookstore When e-readers like the Amazon Kindle burst onto the scene, showing up next to menorahs and under Christmas trees in the early 2000s, …
The health authority that oversees one of B.C.’s busiest hospitals is leasing transitional housing for dozens of patients who no longer need urgent care, hoping that moving those patients off-site …
More Nova Scotians than ever are arriving at hospital emergency departments with conditions rated in the most serious categories, a development experts say is highlighting how the health-care system is …
As It Happens6:21After 80 years in the archives, this British composer is restoring music written in Auschwitz When British composer and conductor Leo Geyer was commissioned to write a piece …