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Overdose tracking gives real-time glimpses into ravages of opioid-fuelled drug crisis
Health ||
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New Brunswick missed screening more than 1,800 possible tissue, ocular donors
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Karissa Donkin
Canada -New Brunswick ||
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Low-income rates could rise as StatsCan moves to redraw poverty line
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Jordan Press
Politics ||
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Renfrew brain injury patient faces 'lifetime wait' for proper care
For the past decade or so, Ken Rekowski has been sleeping in a bed at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital because he can't find a spot in a care home for brain injury sufferers — and if he did find one, he'd likely have to leave his family behind.
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Trevor Pritchard
Canada -Ottawa |
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'We're not alone anymore': Christmas cards lining hallways at Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation School
The cards were sent after the community declared a state of crisis when a young girl took her own life in November.
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Heidi Atter
Canada -Saskatchewan |
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GlobalMedic: More than 2 decades on mission, relief agency keeps evolving
As charity aid agency deploys a secondary mission to Hurricane-ravaged Bahamas, GlobalMedic founder Rahul Singh reflects on how its mission has evolved over the years and where it hopes to go next.
Philip Lee-Shanok
Canada -Toronto ||
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Indigenous 'honouring blankets' donated to Whitehorse long term care homes
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Kaila Jefferd-Moore
Canada -North |
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Notre Dame fire spewed lead dust over Paris, with no rules for safe levels
World |
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Foreign-trained nurses frustrated by registration process
Canada -New Brunswick ||
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Ottawa business donates 3,000 menstrual cups to Nunavut
Canada -North ||
Read 2 chapters and call me in the morning: The White Coat, Black Art book club
Radio -White Coat - Black Art |
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'Generally awful': Worker in N.S. school says better funding would improve cafeteria food
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Kaitlyn Swan
Canada -Nova Scotia |
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Care home moves in professional musician's grand piano so 86-year-old can play it again
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Heidi Atter
Canada -Saskatchewan ||
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Cancer survivors face dilemma over banned breast implants linked to rare lymphoma
Health ||
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'It was like walking into a nightmare': How holiday meals heighten the stress of eating disorders
Radio -Cross Country Checkup |
Point of View
'The day I found out that I will likely outlive my children'
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Sharon Stepaniuk
Canada -Edmonton ||
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Exploring culinary extinction: the foods we have eaten out of existence
Health |
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Prescribed reading: How a book club helps health-care workers 'understand why we do what we do'
Radio -White Coat - Black Art |
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This Timberlea woman who had a heart transplant is meeting the donor's family
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Paul Palmeter
Canada -Nova Scotia ||
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'Vast majority' of vaping illnesses blamed on vitamin E in U.S.
Health ||
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Would you re-consider that cookie if you knew it would take 20 minutes to run off?
Health ||
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Singing in sign language: Meet the 1st deaf choir in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Zach Goudie
Canada -Nfld. & Labrador |
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1st Ebola relapse recorded in Congo outbreak, WHO says
Health ||
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In Depth
Is seasonal affective disorder real? The truth is complicated
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John Last
Canada -North ||
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Dry January: Could you pull it off?
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Hallie Cotnam
Canada -Ottawa ||
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Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties
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Evan Dyer
Politics ||
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New vaping advertising limits coming, but no further restrictions on nicotine yet
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Catherine Cullen
Politics |