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CANADA | Aug 06, 2026

[Blog] The Loneliness Paradox: Why Staying Connected is More Than a Numbers Game

1. The Invisible EpidemicLoneliness has long been whispered about as a personal grievance, but behavioral science now recognizes it as a critical public health crisis. It is the silent toll isolation takes on the heart and the mind—a condition with physiological consequences as tangible as those o

Alberta to lift almost all remaining health restrictions

As COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline and pressure on the health-care system decreases, step two of the province’s path back to normal will begin on March 1. Since step one began on Febr

Grande Prairie Regional Hospital officially opens

Grande Prairie Regional Hospital and cancer centre is expanding access to state-of-the-art health care in northern Alberta by offering more surgeries, radiation therapy and a training facility for nur

What I learned when I moved in with my grandmother during the pandemic

CBC's First Person series provides opportunities for people to share stories from their perspective. In this article, Colin Smith is a Calgary resident who moved in with his grandmother during the pan

Budget 2022: Increasing health-care capacity, surgeries

Budget 2022 commits a total of $3.5 billion for health facilities, equipment and IT systems to expand health-care capacity for Albertans no matter where they live and create thousands of good-paying j

Seniors Now Owed Paper Bills From Communications Service Providers

Canada’s Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission recently decided that communications service providers, including phone and cable companies, must provide paper bills upon reques

Alberta's historic heat wave last summer responsible for 66 deaths: report

The historic heatwave of 2021 resulted in 66 deaths across Alberta. Calgary's Emergency Management Committee received these findings in a disaster risk report sharing information on how high temperat

Red Deer hospital $1.8B expansion builds for the future

Alberta’s government will invest $1.8 billion to redevelop and expand the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre as part of the province’s strategy to increase health care capacity, providing central A

Price Check: Four-in-five say they've changed food buying habits because of increasing costs

The latest report on food prices and consumer behaviours as a result from the Angus Reid Institute finds that as rising food prices take a bite out of Canadians’ budgets, four-in-five people are cha

Jobs and health care are focus of throne speech

Albertans will benefit from legislation this spring to create jobs, improve health care, keep streets safe and support the most vulnerable. Bill 1, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Recognition