Federal office mandate burdening Ottawa doctors as public servants seek medical notes – CBC‘We’re getting completely bogged down with these requests and feeling completely overwhelmed’Oct 17, 2024Family doctors in Ottawa are seeing an influx of public servants looking for medical notes to support work-from-home requests, putting added strain on an already overburdened health-care system. Dr. Roozbeh Matin, who practises in Barrhaven, said he’s been noticing the trend for months, ever since the federal government announced plans to mandate public servants to work from the office more often. “This is a systemic problem that all of us physicians in the Ottawa area are noticing,” he said. “We have been basically inundated with requests from our civil servant patients requesting various sorts of accommodation.”The actual numbers might not seem so daunting: Matin gets about two to four request per week, while Dr. Alex Duong has seen a few dozen since the spring at his family medicine practice in Vanier. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-office-mandate-burdening-ottawa-doctors-as-public-servants-seek-medical-notes-1.7352351

Canada must act now to be prepared for the next health emergency, new pandemic report warns – CBCA future pandemic could be swifter and more severe than COVID-19, experts say in independent reportOct 16, 2024Canada needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and take action before the next health emergency strikes, an expert panel of doctors and researchers say in a new independent report. “Most scientists feel that it’s only a matter of time before we face something similar to what we went through these past five years,” said Dr. Fahad Razak, one of the six experts who contributed to the report examining how scientific advice was developed and how research was co-ordinated. “A lot of what we saw globally when we compared [pandemic] responses suggests that the preparedness is the critical part.”The panel’s report, called “The Time to Act is Now,” says disease surveillance, hospitalization data and research findings need to be communicated much more effectively between the provinces, the territories and the federal government. “The fragmented nature of how we govern this country, with separate decisions being made in provinces and territories and what’s being done at the federal government [level], had really significant impact on how we responded to the pandemic,” said Razak, an internal medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto who was the scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pandemic-report-canada-1.7353743

Adam Yeadon, 25, was killed while working the perimeter of a forest fire near his community of Fort Liard, N.W.T., on July 15, 2023. The coroner’s office has not released its report into the incident but on Wednesday it issued nine recommendations that had emerged from that investigation. ECC’s internal report also shows the territory was already adding more training to assess dangerous trees before Yeadon was killed. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jay Macdonald told CBC News on Wednesday his department was considering the recommendations from the territory’s coroner service. CBC News has asked the coroner’s office for an interview about the recommendations, but did not hear back by publication time.

Town hall on 'controversial' Etobicoke bike lane draws large attendanceNewsDuration 2:36A community debate about a bike lane along Bloor Street West got heated Wednesday night. It was installed last year, and while some community members argue it doesn't work in Etobicoke, others say it should stay in place. The CBC's Dale Manucdoc was at the meeting.

Participants in Indigenous cultural exchange program to New Zealand feel ‘scammed’ – CBCOct 17, 2024Working holiday targeted at Indigenous youth didn’t live up to promises, say participantsWhat many thought was a dream opportunity for Indigenous youth from Canada to participate in cultural exchange with local Māori communities in New Zealand turned into what one participant describes as a “nightmare.”It was marketed as a 12-week working holiday for Indigenous youth but left some participants feeling scammed. “They’re almost luring us into this program using Māori culture and the idea of Indigenous connection,” said Ashley Clearsky, from Waywayseecappo First Nation in Manitoba. Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/new-zealand-indigenous-exchange-1.7349126

WATCH | 'Shadow' talks about surviving a Russian mortar attack in Ukraine:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Canadian fighting in Ukraine describes surviving Russian mortar attackA former Canadian soldier, identified only as 'Shadow,' describes being seriously wounded while fighting with Ukraine in the heavily contested region of Donetsk. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Windsor police said officers are on scene forPolice are investigating a shooting in east Windsor. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Windsor police said officers are on scene for "an active investigation" in the 1500 block of Monticello Avenue, in the Riverside area, north of Firgrove Drive. The scene of a shooting in east Windsor. The scene of a shooting in east Windsor. (Jason Viau/CBC)East Windsor shootingThe scene of a shooting in East Windsor.

How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism – CBCOct 17, 2024Proposed wording change attempted to ‘turn down the volume on [the] truth,’ one lawyer saidA recent request to change the wording in a mandatory Indigenous intercultural course for lawyers in British Columbia led to a debate over whether the changes amounted to residential school denialism. Victoria-based criminal defence lawyer Jim Heller submitted a resolution to the B.C. Law Society to change the wording. The resolution was seconded by Burnaby lawyer Mark Berry.

When it comes to trans youth, there is a lot of misinformation out there. That’s why we’ve launched Xtra Explains: Trans Youth, a 10-part video series breaking down some of the most misunderstood and misrepresented issues affecting their lives. The sources include peer-reviewed research, fact sheets and statements from professional medical associations, rigorous journalism and first-hand accounts. They also include the sources for some of the misinformation our video series debunks, including public statements and policies from politicians like Danielle Smith or Pierre Poilievre. Below, we’ve listed all 178 sources Xtra Explains: Trans Youth cites or refers to in order to not just demonstrate the scope of our work, so you’ll have access to even more factual information in your own fight against misinformation.

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after fall from Buenos Aires hotelNewsDuration 2:01Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died at the age of 31. Police say he fell from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires early Wednesday evening.

Neighbours find threatening notes after house fireNewsDuration 1:33Residents of Edmonton's Cloverdale neighbourhood are shaken after a house fire on Sunday morning. Two different people tell CBC News they found handwritten notes with a demand to pay money to a cryptocurrency account. Edmonton Police are investigating.

This tech company wants teachers to ‘embrace AI’ — and its newest headquarters is in St. John’sNewsDuration 2:03Carnegie Learning is a 25-year-old educational technology company with a background in artificial intelligence. A ribbon-cutting showed off the new Canadian headquarters for the company located at Atlantic Place in St. John’s — and what’s in store for the company and the local success spinoffs.

Untrained service animals creating frustration for guide dog usersNewsDuration 2:41For people living with disabilities, having a service animal can be vital to navigating the world. However, some people are passing off their pets in this position, creating confusion and frustration for those who actually need them. One Edmontonian who relies on his guide dog spoke with Edmonton AM’s Mark Connolly to help better understand the issue.

Young women in N.L. (Jonny Hodder/CBC)A new hockey league is hitting the ice on the northeast Avalon this season. The newly built Women's Junior A Hockey League is welcoming young women between the ages of 18 and 24. "We knew there was an opportunity to establish a program for post-high school competitive hockey," Brown said. Having a league for these ages is important, says Gill, because it gives young hockey players something to look forward to.

Manitoba chief justice optimistic about court’s path to reconciliation, but admits system is ‘flawed’ – CBCOct 16, 2024‘We’re going to make mistakes,’ Glenn Joyal saysManitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal describes the province’s justice system as “forward-looking.”“We want to be in a predisposition to preserve but a capacity to change, and I think the justice system — and all actors in it — are kind of reflecting on that proposition and trying to grapple with it,” he told host Marcy Markusa in an interview with CBC Manitoba’s Information Radio. Joyal, appointed to his current role in 2011, presided over one of the country’s highest profile cases this summer, convicting Winnipeg serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in the deaths of four Indigenous women. Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-chief-justice-glenn-joyal-2024-interview-1.7352462