En 2021-2022, chez les adultes, la COVID-19 a été la deuxième cause principale d’hospitalisation au Canada, derrière les accouchements. La stabilisation de la situation ne veut pas dire que la COVID‑19 n'aura plus d'effets à court ou à long terme. Les hospitalisations liées à la COVID‑19 restent relativement stables, mais elles continuent d'affecter nos systèmes de santé. Parmi ces hospitalisations, 17 559 étaient des admissions hors soins intensifs pour la COVID-19 et 23 345 admissions pour une autre cause, mais avec un diagnostic de COVID-19. Depuis avril 2023, il y a eu plus de 5700 hospitalisations au Québec et plus de 400 décès en raison de la COVID-19.

The Ontario government has said the early reading screening tool won't be mandatory for the 2023-24 school year. (Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit)Even though Ontario students won't be subject to regular standardized reading tests this school year, parents and teachers are warning that any screening tool is only useful if there are more resources to back it up. This spring, the province announced it was mandating an early reading screening tool. Una Malcolm is the president of International Dyslexia Association Ontario and a Doctoral Candidate in Reading Science. Una Malcolm is the president of International Dyslexia Association Ontario and a doctoral candidate in reading science.

Got a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby told journalists that Ukrainian forces have made ‘notable progress’ in the last 72 hours in their push against Russian forces in the south of the country. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/newsCBC News published this video item, entitled “Ukraine’s counteroffensive making ‘notable progress,’ Washington says” – below is their description. It frequently collaborates with its French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info, although the two are organizationally separate.

RCMP in New Brunswick say two people have been killed in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 130 in Lansdowne, which is north of Woodstock. The drivers were the only occupants of each vehicle. Western Valley Region RCMP responded to a report of the collision at approximately 2:06 a.m., according to a media release. A 51-year old man from Kilburn and an 18-year old man from Fosterville died at the scene as a result of their injuries. The cause of the crash is not known.

Ontario Provincial Police say a 64-year-old from Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township was pronounced dead at the scene, while a second person was sent to hospital. (Jillian Renouf/CBC - image credit)Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after one person died Saturday in a boating incident on the St. Lawrence River west of Brockville, Ont. There were two people on board, according to the OPP. A 64-year-old from Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township was pronounced dead on the scene, while a second person was sent to hospital. Witnesses are asked to contact the OPP's Leeds County detachment.

The day before a wildfire tore through Enterprise, residents were celebrating at a jamboree with music, food and crafts that drew hundreds of people. Residents of Enterprise, plus the communities of Hay River and the Kátł’odeeche First Nation to the north, were forced to flee as the wildfire rapidly approached. Photo: Bruce GudeitFormer Hay River mayor Brad Mapes, who owns an industrial property outside Enterprise that includes a rail yard, said the fire went through his land. Smoke plumes from fires across the Hay River and Enterprise region on August 30. Where the Enterprise wildfire burned, for example, Westwick said there was no recent fire history.

government says it will have elected officials and experts from several departments and organizations available to answer questions at 4 p.m. MT on the re-entry plan for Yellowknife, Ndilǫ and Dettah. Meanwhile, territorial medical director Dr. Claudia Kraft told CBC that for the first few days after re-entry, health services would be "quite limited." Health and Social Services Authority said ICU, routine obstetrics, chemotherapy, dialysis and IV therapy would not be immediately available and it could take up to a month for full services to resume. At the same time, the health authority issued a warning to people who choose not to return home after the evacuation order lifts due to concerns over a lack of health services. By doing so, they might not have any more support after re-entry flights end, the authority said.

Roderica Ribbonleg's killer was sentenced on Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. (Tracey D'Or - image credit)A man who murdered a 15-year-old girl in a small Northern Alberta community has received an automatic maximum life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. In April, Jason Alec Tallcree, 39, was found guilty in the July 2020 beating, sexual assault and first-degree murder of Roderica Ribbonleg. She was severely psychologically damaged in her last moments, from the time the beating began until she was no longer conscious." Story continuesThey noted Ribbonleg was a foster child and girl of Indigenous heritage subjected to extreme violence.

Norway remains committed to restarting the work of the Arctic Council, with a focus on reactivating its expert teams, according to the forum’s Senior Arctic Officials chair. “Our primary focus of these first months was on finding a way forward that would allow the working groups to resume their important work,” Morten Høglund said in an interview posted Thursday on the Arctic Council website. Co-operation breakdownThe Arctic Council, established in 1996, facilitates cooperation among the circumpolar states on sustainable development and environmental preservation. It consists of the eight Arctic states and six Arctic Indigenous groups, known as permanent participants. UPDATE This text has been updated with detail on Russian participation in the consensus guidelines from the Arctic Council Secretariat.

A class action case against Facebook in Quebec can now go ahead. "We're very happy," said lawyer Jean-Michel Boudreau, a member of the IMK LLP team spearheading the class action. "I think this is an important case and now we know for sure that the class action can move forward." Boudreau's law firm has estimated the class action could lead to $100 million in damages. Under Quebec law, people who fit the description covered by the class action are automatically included in the class action suit unless they opt out.

Experts say much of Vancouver's architecture is uniquely vulnerable to intensifying heat compared to its Canadian counterparts, because it was designed for milder weather. WATCH | Disproportionate number of people who died during 2021 heat dome didn't have air conditions:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. 's deadly heat dome: PovertyA new report says that a disproportionate number of financially vulnerable people died in British Columbia during the punishing 2021 heat dome event. is experiencing more record-breaking summer heat waves, including the heat dome that killed more than 600 people in 2021.

Bem is a social psychologist from Cornell University, now retired at age 85. In the end, the consensus about Bem’s research was mostly not that he used mainstream tools of statistical analytics improperly. The UBC folk didn’t want their sample to include the long-term homeless, so to be eligible, participants had to have been homeless for less than two years. Also, they rejected severe drug and alcohol abusers and the mentally ill.Why reject the most problematic, messed-up and socially costly victims of homelessness from a study of homelessness? Bad news, one might think, for a scientific study literally purporting to prove that stereotypes of the homeless as impulsive and untrustworthy are mistaken.

September 1, 2023 —Dr. Marcia Anderson, a public health physician and vice dean Indigenous health, social justice and anti-racism at the University of Manitoba, said more needs to be done. “People are getting harmed by a toxic drug supply and there’s a lot more we could be doing to reduce the risks,” she said.

(Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP)Activists declared a victory this week in their fight to repeal a new Republican-backed law allowing Nebraska taxpayer money to be used for private school tuition. If the law is repealed, Nebraska would join North Dakota as the only states not offering some type of public payment for private school tuition. AdvertisementBoth Nebraska and North Dakota passed bills earlier this year to fund some private school tuition. North Dakota’s bill set aside $10 million in taxpayer dollars for private school tuition reimbursement. Opponents answered that optimism with a shrug, noting that companies and people are always free to make charitable contributions to private school tuition scholarship programs.

Nova Scotia announced the annual grant for low-income seniors in 2021, but has since upped the amount to $750 from $500. It is expected to offset some of the costs incurred by low-income seniors, including some medical expenses, snow removal, small household repairs, grocery delivery and transportation to appointments. The seniors care grant program was first announced in 2021, offering $500 in its first two years. He called the increase is wonderful and said it will make a "huge difference" for seniors living independently at home. Bill VanGorder of CARP called the increase wonderful and said it will help seniors cover unexpected costs in their home.