Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports children and prisoners who are incapable of making decisions for themselves getting mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment. That comes after the parents of a 13-year-old girl from B.C. testified at a parliamentary committee about her mental health struggles before her overdose death in an encampment of homeless people
By Laura Osman The Canadian Press Posted October 10, 2024 6:25 pm Updated October 11, 2024 8:19 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The pharmacare bill that was central to a political pact between the Liberals and NDP is now set to become law after the Senate passed the
Rescue teams plucked Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton on Thursday after the storm smashed through coastal communities where it tore homes into pieces, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least six people were dead. Arriving just two weeks after the misery wrought by Hurricane Helene, the system also
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Floridians are waking up to the damage left behind by Hurricane Milton. Some of the most notable damage, at least as of early Thursday morning, involved Tropicana Field, the home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg.The fabric that serves as the roof of
Hurricane Milton has left a trail of destruction as it pummelled Florida’s coastal areas, damaging homes, flooding roads and knocking out power for millions. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the extent of the damage from the Category 3 storm was still being assessed, but it “was not the worst-case scenario” that many had been bracing
Asked about Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent statements that he is in favour of involuntary drug treatment and psychiatric treatment for kids and prisoners, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said a “science-based” and compassionate approach to treatment is needed. However, she said “sometimes people are too sick to really recognize what treatment they need.”
A woman is in critical and life-threatening condition after being struck by a bus in Toronto’s east end Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the area of Kingswood and Kingston roads, west of Victoria Park Avenue, just after 4 p.m. for a collision. Police say the woman was rushed to the hospital with serious
As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, expected to make landfall some time Wednesday evening, locals across the state are scrambling to make emergency preparations and hundreds of thousands are attempting to leave what are expected to be the hardest-hit areas. But with one million people in coastal areas under evacuation orders, highways to higher ground
After 67 years of welcoming guests on the Las Vegas Strip, the historic Tropicana hotel is no more. The hotel and casino tumbled to the ground in a planned implosion that featured a fireworks and drone show in the early hours of Wednesday morning, reducing to rubble the last true mob building on the Strip.There
An already hurricane-ravaged Florida faced down a powerful Hurricane Milton Wednesday night, with officials warning it could be the “storm of the century.” The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Milton to a Category 3 hurricane early Wednesday evening shortly before landfall on Florida’s west coast, with sustained winds up to 195 kilometres per hour.The