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Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced on Wednesday that the federal government is proposing that PFAS be added to the list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Asked why Ottawa hasn’t moved faster to ban these substances, Guilbeault said the government is ‘trying to go as fast as we can within the confines of the laws and regulations.’

Ahead of the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a global pandemic on March 11, The Canadian Press spoke to five people who lost someone they loved as the virus started circulating in those frightening early days.

Five years after the province identified its first COVID-19 case, experts are urging Albertans not to forget about those still struggling with its devastating impacts.

Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a highly contagious virus that's more infectious than influenza, chickenpox or COVID-19.

The Trump administration announced last week that it was cancelling nearly 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts worth almost $60 billion US, ending about 90 per cent of USAID's global work. In Kenya, people worry what it will mean for live-saving HIV medications.

A former chief judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba will lead an investigation into the procurement practices of Alberta Health and the province’s health authority.