Health

TORONTO — Whooping cough is on track to reach a record number of cases in Ontario while infections climb in eastern provinces and decline in Quebec, but experts say trying to predict the course of the highly contagious disease has been especially dif

TORONTO — Ontario's minister of citizenship and multiculturalism, who is also Premier Doug Ford's nephew, says he is temporarily stepping away from his cabinet duties.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's highest-ranking military officer , was treated successfully for early-stage breast cancer this summer, the service announced Friday.

BLACKFALDS, Alta. — Alberta Health Services says an E. coli outbreak at a daycare in Blackfalds has ended.

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors say forward Bruce Brown has undergone arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and will be out for several weeks.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the virus has spread in sea mammals.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech focused squarely on abortion rights and she'll do so in Georgia, where news reports have documented wome

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the virus has spread in sea mammals.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia woman has applied for a medically assisted death, saying after years of battling to receive out-of-country surgery for an illness that causes "indescribable" pain, she struggles to maintain the will to live.