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How do you know if your child has iron deficiency?

The dose24:55What should I know about iron deficiency? Guelph resident Sasha Burnison was in sixth grade when she was diagnosed with iron deficiency. “So I would [feel] “I want to work out, for example, but I just want to… go home and sleep,” said Burnison, now 18. “[I couldn’t] “If I ran around too much, I got dizzy.” After consulting …

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Kenneth Law, who sold toxic chemical responsible for 131 deaths, sued by parents of Ontario teen

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. Two years after losing her only child, Maria Lopez says she draws strength from her necklace featuring a photo of 18-year-old Jeshennia. “She was a charming girl… a joker, a good student, a good daughter, a good advisor,” Maria recalled. Jeshennia “was everything.” The death of Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez, a recent high school graduate …

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Former Manitoba doctor sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing patients

A former family doctor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing seven women during medical appointments and examinations in Ste. Anne, Man. King’s Bench Court Judge Sadie Bond handed down the sentence for Arcel Bissonnette on Thursday morning in Winnipeg. “Dr. Bissonnette took advantage of the opportunity he had as a family doctor to sexually abuse …

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Can ‘HART Hubs’ fill the void as Ontario tightens consumption controls?

Ontario decided to ban supervised drug use areas near schools and daycares, but also agreed to fund a different approach. The province calls them Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, a new acronym that nonetheless draws on examples that already exist in Ontario. When Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced $378 million last week to support 19 hubs across the …

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Veterans’ families need legally mandated access to mental health care, watchdog says

It’s been more than three years since Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) decided to ease restrictions on access to mental health services for the families of soldiers, sailors and crew in trouble. And the country’s veterans ombudsman says little has changed in that time. Nishika Jardine published a new retrospective report Wednesday that provides a snapshot of the recommendations her office …

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After losing their first child, this couple struggled to find public mental health care

When Chris and Stephanie Goulding lost their firstborn 10 hours after birth, the couple had to seek mental health care. At the hospital chapel, they were given only pamphlets and grief counseling. (Curtis Hicks/CBC) Their hearts first burst and then were broken. In 2022, Stephanie Goulding had a perfect pregnancy with her husband Chris, but the birth was anything but …

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Canadian patients’ needs are becoming increasingly complex. Health care should reflect that: CMA

More Canadians should receive their primary health care through teams of professionals so their increasingly complex needs can be met without having to pay privately, the Canadian Medical Association said in a new report released Tuesday. The CMA Recommendations came after a major overhaul of the relationship between public and private health care. 6.5 million Canadians have no family doctor, …

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Verdict in unusual trial of confessed Winnipeg serial killer to be delivered Thursday

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. The fate of a Winnipeg man who confessed to killing four women but denies criminal responsibility will be decided Thursday after an unusual trial for the confessed serial killer. Jeremy Skibicki’s lawyers argued that he was driven by delusions related to schizophrenia and hearing voices that made him believe he was on a mission …

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Advocates criticize the time it took to confirm that a mother and two children from Harrow, Ontario, died from intimate partner violence

WARNING: This story contains discussions of intimate partner violence and suicide. Advocates working to raise awareness about domestic violence say they are devastated to learn that the deaths of a family in their Harrow, Ontario, home last month were the result of intimate partner violence. On Saturday, police confirmed that Carly Walsh and her two children were fatally shot and …

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Ottawa launches map of boarding schools to help search for missing children

The Canadian government has launched a new interactive online map showing the location of residential schools. Experts say this will help in the search for unmarked or forgotten graves of children forced to go to the institutions. Many school buildings have been demolished, paved over or rebuilt since they were built. first opened in Canada in the 1830s and the …

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