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SINCE THE SUMMER of 2012, Olie Pullen has kept in her bedroom closet a Wonder Woman costume, which she loves, but has struggled to actually wear. The plan had been [...]

EVER SINCE A dresser fell on top of little Gabriel and cracked his head open two years ago, he has slept in his parents' bed. He's six years old now, [...]

LAST WEEK, AFTER rampant forest fires had decimated thousands of hectares of his homeland, and burned alive dozens of his countrymen, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin boarded an amphibious aircraft [...]

In a few weeks, every adult in Canada will decide if they (and their children) will get the flu vaccine to protect against HIN1. At the best of times, it [...]

In the future, when medical experts reflect on the most transformative health care development of this decade, the discussion may have nothing to do with vaccines or prescription drugs, but […]

GROWING UP IN Thornhill, Ont., David DaCosta learned from a young age two facts about his father, an industrious Portuguese immigrant: he was a sheet metal worker, and he didn't [...]

When Anne Marie Cerato was 30 years old, she went to the doctor to check out a bump on her collarbone. 'I don't think it's anything serious,' the doctor told [...]

With flu season just beginning, Dr. Nicola Mercer is on high alert. As the medical officer of health for Wellingto-Dufferin-Guelph in Ontario, one of her main priorities is to promote [...]

The fast-food industry has finally awakened to what everyone else has known since McDonald's invented the Egg McMuffin: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Tim Hortons, Burger [...]

When people think lung cancer, they think 'smoker.' The disease is inextricably linked with Big Tobacco and the bad habit so many people have struggled to kick. It's become a [...]

Jean-Claude Parrot, the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for 15 years, was a most unusual kind of public figure: a celebrity mailman. Parrot made headlines in the [...]

When an old woman and her cat came looking for food recently from Shelley Wells, executive director of Quest Food Exchange in Vancouver, it didn't matter that the woman had […]

TO HEAR DEAN Pacey describe online learning is a lesson in how the Internet--despite its vastness--can actually be a very personal place. In fact, taking courses over a computer, he [...]

It may be every parent's worst nightmare: when it comes to what constitutes appropriate sexual behaviour, teen girls are starting to think a lot more like boys. The latest survey [...]

It used to be that only hospitals and religious organizations got the big money from donors. But an increasing number of philanthropists are giving to Canadian universities instead. Today, 20 […]