Seeking solutions: Nova Scotia ER death prompts debate
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The death of a mother at a Nova Scotia hospital following an hours-long wait in the emergency room is sparking debate about what changes need to be made to prevent a future tragedy.
The death of a mother at a Nova Scotia hospital following an hours-long wait in the emergency room is sparking debate about what changes need to be made to prevent a future tragedy.
Some ideas are already being suggested, but front-line workers say the problem goes much deeper.
Ten days after 37-year-old Allison Holthoff died in a Nova Scotia emergency room, her husband Günter Holthoff still doesn't know his wife's official cause of death.
It's one of the questions that continue to haunt him, and one of the reasons he shared their story with the rest of Canada Monday.
Allison complained she wasn't feeling well on New Year's Eve, with ever-increasing pain in her abdomen.
Günter wound up taking her to the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre, where her condition worsened.
Seven hours later, the mother of three and deputy fire chief was dead.
A low pressure system brought snow, freezing rain and freezing drizzle to much of southern Manitoba starting Sunday.
Sudbury resident Angela Vitiello says a staff member at Health Sciences North told her that her brother, Allan St. Martin, was released from the hospital late last month when, in fact, he had passed away.
Some Syrian-Canadians are greeting the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government with a mix of hope and uncertainty.
An area of low pressure is forecast to develop into a strong storm as it moves from the northeastern U.S. into the St. Lawrence River Valley late Wednesday into Thursday.
The cost of lost economic opportunities in the GTHA due to congestion totaled more than $10 billion in 2024 and that number rose to more than $47 billion when factoring in the “social impacts” that diminish a commuter’s quality of life, according to a new report.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's latest attempt to topple the minority Liberal government in a non-confidence vote failed on Monday, thanks to the New Democrats.
The parents accused in the death of their 18-month-old son are expected to enter a plea to manslaughter charges in a Calgary courtroom Monday.
The Liberals are set to face a third Conservative non-confidence vote today, but the government is likely to survive with the support of the NDP.
Mounties say two men have been charged in the 2021 murder of a 38-year-old man in Burnaby, B.C.
North Bay police arrested a federal offender accused of breaching his statutory release nearly two weeks ago.
Health Minister Christian Dube repeated to CTV News what he said on Radio-Canada’s Tout le Monde en Parle that he does not intend to run in the 2026 provincial election.