Rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism — labeled "deaths of despair" by one expert — are cutting the lives of white Americans short by nearly a half a year on average.
Despite receiving support from both the NDP and Progressive Conservative caucuses, Ontario's Liberal Government defeated the motion 40 to 22.
An autopsy is required to determine the cause of death and confirm whether or not foul play is a factor.
A medical incident this past Monday evening near the Surrey RCMP’s main detachment highlights the importance of first aid training and how the quick actions taken by first responders and civilians likely saved a life.
Veronique Bourgault, of Repentigny, Que., was arrested Friday evening following the fracas at a busy Tiger Stadium.
The officer was in his unmarked cruiser at the side of Highway 1 in Burnaby, completing paperwork from an unrelated traffic stop