8 h. ago Alberta failing to ensure daycares use funds to cut fees for parents: auditor general

The Auditor General found several Alberta daycares delivered misleading numbers on things like attendance records, while others filed duplicate records for kids.

Transport

6 d. ago Toronto club is helping people rebuild their social lives after kids move out

Do you ever reminisce on the luxury of hogging the TV when your roommate is gone for the weekend? Do you live for those lazy, weekend days when you get the condo all to yourself?That's the life for so many twenty-somethings in Toronto. But not so much so for many Toronto parents, who wake up, feed their kids, make lunches and pick them up from school — amongst other things. Until one day, the constant scramble of that reality comes to a halt when the kids move out. Then what?When Leaside mom Charlene Wood first found herself with an empty home after her youngest child went to university, that first taste of solitude in years might have sounded like a dream to some.It meant no noise, no extra responsibilities, and the best of all: all that spare time back to yourself. That transition didn't evoke those feelings in Wood, though. Instead, it left her feeling the effects that many empty-nesters experience after their last child lea...

Society

9 d. ago Opinion: Let Alberta optometrists do the job they're trained to do

Modern optometry training has evolved far beyond what it was even 10 years ago. Alberta’s regulations aren’t keeping pace. Where we once led North American scope of practice for optometrists, Alberta is now falling far behind. The failure of our regulatory system to match advances in education, training, and medical technology is contributing to increased […]

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1 week ago ‘Every day matters’: B.C. stands by decision to cut drug funding for child with terminal brain disease

Despite a personal plea from family, Health Minister Josie Osborne has upheld the province’s decision to stop funding Brineura for nine-year-old Charleigh Pollock.

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1 week ago 'Every day matters': Heartbroken B.C. mom urges government to restore drug funding for child with terminal brain disease

Despite a personal plea from family, Health Minister Josie Osborne has upheld the province’s decision to stop funding Brineura for nine-year-old Charleigh Pollock

Politics

1 week ago Alberta First Nation seeking court ruling on end to coal mining moratorium

The Siksika First Nation is accusing the Alberta government of failing to consult when it lifted a moratorium on coal mining projects on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

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3 w. ago Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding can be cut by states: Supreme Court

The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court closes off Planned Parenthood's primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: lawsuits from patients.

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3 w. ago Coal Loophole Undermines Bank Pledges to Cut Fossil Fuel Funding

In the parts of the financial world that have spent the decade since the Paris Agreement trying to curb the most-polluting fossil fuel, there are actually two distinct types of coal — with two very different sets of rules.

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