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The Conservative grassroots voted overwhelmingly to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth under the age of 18 on Saturday, distracting from leader Pierre Poilievre’s focus on economic and affordability issues.

living wage calculations reflect costs in June 2023, and take into account government transfers added to the family’s income, like child benefits, as well as deductions subtracted, like taxes and EI premiums.“The wage should be enough for the family to avoid severe financial stress, support the healthy development of their children, and participate in their social, civic, and cultural communities,” the report said.The report, released Thursday, said the living wage is $7.85 to $11.59 higher than what the minimum wage will be next month.“Working people deserve to work to live, not just live to work,” the report said.

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Canada have begun a new school year, but even as they crack open their books teachers and those who represent them are raising concerns there’s still not enough being done to fix ongoing teachers shortages from coast to coast to coast.The shortages vary from province to territory. Some like Nova Scotia say most full-time roles are filled but they’re having issue in terms of substitute teachers.

As cases of COVID-19 increase across the country, some health experts are hoping schools will reinstate mask mandates in order to help stop the spread of the virus and other respiratory illnesses as fall approaches and warnings of a “tridemic” grow.

TORONTO — In May, Canadian banks offered support to those affected by an early wave of wildfires in Alberta. In June, they extended the offer to those hit in Nova Scotia, and some expanded it further as fires also raged in Quebec and Ontario.

meningitis B, Norrie Matthews is urging parents to get their children vaccinated against the disease before the start of the school year.Meningitis B, the most common and deadly strain of meningitis, is rare but can lead to severe and life-threatening complications when contracted.That’s what happened to Kai Matthews the year he was studying kinesiology at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.“We lost our son, Kai Matthews, in June of 2021 to meningitis B,” Matthews told Global News. “And after we lost Kai, we were completely blindsided by the fact that we thought we had vaccinated him when he was in Grade 7 for meningitis.”While anyone can get meningitis, younger people and students are often more susceptible due to their communal living arrangements, such as residing on campus, as well as sharing personal items like utensils, drinks and cigarettes.The bacteria causing meningitis are transmitted from person to person through droplets of respiratory or throat secretions from carriers, according to the World Health Organization.“Close and prolonged contact – such as kissing, sneezing or coughing on someone, or living in close quarters with an infected person, facilitates the spread of the disease,” it says.Kai received the meningococcal quadrivalent vaccine (which covers groups A, C, Y and W) for meningitis.

Residents don’t know what they’ll find when they return home after evacuation due to wildfires or other natural disasters. They don’t even know if their homes will still exist.

A hiking trip for a group of friends in New Brunswick’s Fundy National Park this past weekend turned into a dramatic rescue, and resulted in an off-duty police officer being hailed as a hero.

The annual rate of inflation rose to 3.3 per cent in July, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

It doesn’t make sense to Robie Holland that — as 250 millimetres of rain poured down in rural Nova Scotia — there was nothing to stop his father from travelling down a rapidly flooding road.

Friends of a man who died following an aggravated assault on the Halifax waterfront Sunday night are mourning his loss.

flash flooding, record heat and wildfires.Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said that the bullseye for the strongest storms will be over the northeastern U.S., with parts of New York state down to Kentucky in line for potentially damaging winds, hail, heavy downpours and isolated tornadoes.He said Ontario and Quebec are on the “northern periphery of this disturbance.”“Once again it looks like parts of eastern Ontario could see some strong storms Monday late afternoon to evening with the biggest threat being heavy rainfall,” Hull said in an email.“There are Rainfall Warnings in place from Ottawa south towards Kingston and east to areas north of Montreal where some downpours could deliver more than 50 mm of rain in a relatively short amount of time which could lead to localized flooding.”As the weather system moves east into the Maritimes, there will be the potential for heavy rain Tuesday night into early Wednesday, Hull said, and a special weather statement has been issued.Environment Canada says rainfall could exceed 50 millimetres over the northern half of New Brunswick and be up to 50 millimetres in some parts of Nova Scotia.Parts of Nova Scotia are still reeling from a torrential downpour that triggered floods July 22 and killed four people, while Halifax recently had storms and flooding this past Saturday.In an online bulletin, the U.S.

never arrived.In the fall, Global News also spoke with a Halifax woman with a broken ankle who waited three hours for an ambulance to come, and an elderly couple that waited 2.5 hours after an injury at Point Pleasant Park.And in January, a Nova Scotia paramedic spoke out about working conditions and a growing problem with offload delays — transferring the patient from ambulance to hospital — which are contributing to ambulance wait times.Hollier said he doesn’t blame the paramedics, nurses or doctors, but he’s frustrated with the government for the state of the health-care system.“I think it’s totally disgraceful in Canada that this is happening,” he said.“It’s obvious that the populations are getting older, the baby boomers are getting older, and there’s more and more incidents that are going to happen like this, and they’re not going to get proper care.”According to Nova Scotia’s Action for Health dashboard, the average wait time for an ambulance in the central health zone during the week of July 16 — the most recent data available — was 30 minutes, while the average patient offload time was 110 minutes.In an interview Friday, Charbel Daniel, executive director of provincial operations with Emergency Health Services, said he sympathizes with the family.“Our hearts go out to families when they’re in these situations and waiting for an EHS response,” he said.“We take these situations very seriously and we always do a massive service inquiry into them to look if there’s any quality improvement initiatives that we can do.”Daniel said there are a number of systemic impacts on ambulance wait times, including the time it takes to transfer patients to the hospital, as well as increased call volumes.But he noted that there are

Police believe they have found the body of a youth who went missing in the devastating Nova Scotia floods late last month, the RCMP said Wednesday.

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devastating floods in Nova Scotia has come to a tragic end, though officials are still looking for a missing youth.The Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed the body of one of the missing children was found around 10:45 Tuesday morning in the primary search area in the Hants County community of Brooklyn, N.S.Police also said that previously unidentified human remains found on the shore of a waterway late Monday morning in neighbouring Kings County are believed to be those of the second missing child.“This is a devastating time for the children’s families, their loved ones, and their communities,” said RCMP Chief Superintendent Sue Black during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.“I want to extend sincere condolences on behalf of everyone at the Nova Scotia RCMP.”The children were among four people reported missing in two separate incidents after vehicles became submerged in floodwaters in the West Hants area Saturday following heavy rainfall.Officials recovered the body of a 52-year-old man from Windsor Monday morning. A youth who the man was travelling with remains missing.The search for the youth continues.“This afternoon, they remain focused on the primary search area in Brooklyn, where efforts to reduce the water level are continuing,” she said.RCMP Sgt.

Canadian police say the body of a child who went missing when the province of Nova Scotia was hit with extreme flooding has been recovered

What began as a series of thunderstorms in Canada's Nova Scotia on Friday, turned into a 250 mm of rain till Sunday. Several parts of the province were severely flooded.

The devastating floods in Nova Scotia have taken out the Canadian National Railway train line that connects the port of Halifax to the rest of the country, disrupting services in the region with no word on when they will resume.

Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages