This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can …
The government is creating a carve-out for the carbon tax on home heating oil, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. The government will exempt home heating oil from the tax …
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried began testifying at his fraud trial on Friday, saying the innovative business he hoped would move the cryptocurrency ecosystem forward ended up doing the opposite and …
A new Health Canada report says the number of medically assisted deaths in 2022 was more than 30 per cent higher than the year prior. Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per …
Canadian dentists are demanding details of Ottawa’s soon-to-be announced federal dental insurance plan and how the federal government plans to preserve existing provincial and private coverage. Eleven provincial and territorial …
More than 200 medical journals are calling on the World Health Organization to deem two overlapping environmental crises — climate change and biodiversity loss — as a global health emergency, …
The latest: Israel continues striking Gaza; military says it destroyed some Hamas tunnels. Fighting also reported in West Bank and near Syria, Lebanon borders. Western countries call for humanitarian pause to …
An off-duty airline pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat on a Horizon Air flight last weekend said “I’m not OK” just before trying to cut the engines mid-flight and …
Thirty-three states including California and New York are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features …
The way the world is powered will change dramatically by the end of the decade, thanks to surging demand for electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, a new report from …