New national long-term-care standards — highlighting quality of life and safe building design — have received a cool initial reception from the Ontario government. If the voluntary standards are implemented, funded and enforced, they have the potential to transform the way people live and work in nursing homes, advocates say. But the degree to which …
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A longtime former CBC Radio journalist has died from medical complications a week after a random assault on a Danforth Avenue sidewalk, his family says. Michael Finlay died Tuesday, one week after he was assaulted by a stranger while walking along the busy east-end street in broad daylight on Jan. 24. According to longtime friend …
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OTTAWA—Candice Bergen, the Conservative party’s former interim leader, is stepping down as a member of Parliament, the Star has learned. Bergen broke the news to her fellow Tory MPs during their weekly caucus meeting on Wednesday morning. She is set to formally resign from her Manitoba riding of Portage-Lisgar this week. Her announcement comes nearly …
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Elon Musk now has broadband competition in the skies over northern Canada. A new player will soon offer access to high-speed internet in remote and rural communities: Ontario’s Galaxy Broadband has just announced it is teaming up with UK-based OneWeb in a $50 million US multi-year deal to provide low-orbit satellite internet service in direct …
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In the early morning of Aug. 15, 2021, an automated speed camera on Avenue Road whirred into action. At 3:12 a.m. it took a photo that a provincial offences officer would later attest showed a driver racing north on the six-lane roadway at 121 km/h, well above the posted limit of 50 km/h in an …
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OTTAWA— The federal government won’t make public its multibillion offer to the provinces on health care until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets premiers and territorial leaders in Ottawa next week. Behind the scenes, however, federal and provincial officials are number-crunching to ensure the “working meeting,” as Trudeau called it, ends with no blow-ups, a solid …
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OTTAWA— The federal government won’t make public its multibillion offer to the provinces on health care until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets premiers and territorial leaders in Ottawa next week. Behind the scenes, however, federal and provincial officials are number-crunching to ensure the “working meeting,” as Trudeau called it, ends with no blow-ups, a solid …
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Fighting over health care privatization is a familiar Canadian sport, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s current privatization push feels different. It’s more ambitious and forthright. And, in a new twist, commentators seem to be piling on his bandwagon, insisting that we gotta do things differently, ridiculing the Canadian reverence for public health care, even suggesting …
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Canadian doctors are collectively spending 18.5 million hours on “unnecessary paperwork and administrative tasks” each year, a report says. Patients before Paperwork, a report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business released Monday, states the approximately 18.5 million hours physicians are collectively spending on unnecessary paperwork amounts to 55.6 million patient visits per year. Dr. …
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As mourners gathered at Charankan (Charu) Chandrakanthan’s parents’ Scarborough home two nights after he was fatally shot, his close friend stood outside giving a detailed, eyewitness account that identified the killer, albeit by nickname. The two women listening — Charu’s ex-girlfriend and her cousin — told the witness, Arvin Mathuvan, there was “only one option.” …
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