A Saskatchewan teen who suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning while working at his part-time job at a local grocery store may suffer long-term health problems, but the employer faced no serious consequences. A workplace safety expert says many provinces lack the authority to financially penalize employers that risk worker safety.
As a small number of homeless patients make thousands of emergency room visits, hospitals grapple with how to better treat people with nowhere else to turn
Last year, the Victoria resident said she called 911 for a man who was asking for help to get an ambulance to a sobriety centre – after he’d been dropped at the bus stop.