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One of the reasons the community is so welcoming to newcomers may be because their economy depends on it.

So far, more than 3,200 cases of flu have been reported across Canada since the end of August.

In the early days of the outbreak, “Taiwan leveraged its national health insurance database and integrated it with its immigration and customs database to begin the creation of big data for analytics;”

When residents of Fort McMurray, Alta. are finally given the all clear to return to their homes and start cleaning up from a devestating, once-in-a-century flood, infectious disease experts says they will need to be cautious.

The word Eskimo is also closely tied to colonialism, something that came relatively late to some Inuit communities.

Data released by Statistics Canada shows 11 per cent of students who identify as women were sexually assaulted in a college or university setting.

‘If you look at the entire (food) supply chain, I would say the most vulnerable workers are right in the middle — in processing — because things are tight, things are intense.’

A series of racially motivated assaults against mostly Black, Muslim women in Calgary and Edmonton has left many in the community feeling anxious and unsafe.

When a Calgary oilsands contractor took a job last month at Canadian Natural Resources Horizon oilsands work site, he knew there was a chance he could get sick.

With more than five million Canadians still working from home, offices across the country have become dark and lonely places.

While rare, Dr. Stephen Freedman says he expects to see more cases of MIS-C and long COVID in kids if the Delta variant fuels a fourth wave this fall.

AHS has been able to increase surgical capacity once again but the system is not yet operating at full capacity and surgeries continue to be postponed each week.

Gabrielle Lindstrom, an education consultant from the University of Calgary, says racism in the health system has become a barrier to access. She believes a reckoning is overdue.

Perry Omeasoo hopes that the Pope’s visit and his planned apology on Indigenous lands come as a comfort to some, but he says the papal visit will bring no solace to him.

“Packing that hurt and pain around for so long instead of being able to, ‘I love you. I’m scared. I’m afraid.’ It cames out as anger. That’s what I lived.”

Canada’s oil and gas province quietly became a wind and solar powerhouse, then hit the brakes. What happens now?

As bad as the 2023 fire season was, climate scientists agree the planet is in for far worse if global average temperatures are allowed to rise more than two degrees.

Community leaders say they aren’t sure if the inquest will be worth the pain.

Across many indigenous cultures, the white buffalo is a sacred animal because it’s seen as a symbol of hope.

Alberta’s premier says she’s had many conversations with members of the trans community before and since drafting a suite of policy proposals dealing with transgender rights.