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When Charlie Rousseau visited her hometown of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., for a festival in June, she noticed there were old-style parking meters that required users to slip change into a slot to pay. The problem is, Rousseau can't easily hold coins, let alone reach the slot to pay.

It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a recall of some Whole Foods Market brand products, saying they've been linked to a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. Various guacamoles, pico de gallos, salsas and prepared foods are part of the recall, issued Thursday.

A for-profit plasma donation company says it's temporarily shutting down collection at all its Canadian clinics amid public scrutiny.

Days and daycares are getting hotter. And a growing number of parents, educators, and health and legal advocates are lobbying for maximum indoor temperature at daycares, likely 26 C, akin to standards adopted for long-term care facilities in Ontario.

A 64-year-old Quebec man has become the first patient in North America to receive a regenerated liver thanks to a breakthrough technology that could make dozens of additional livers available for transplant in its first year alone.

From skull fractures to ICU admissions, pediatric specialists across Canada say severe e-scooter trauma in kids is becoming routine — and current rules are failing to protect them.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has now recorded over 2,000 deaths in what the World Health Organization is calling the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record.

One American doctor said changes in B.C.'s health care have allowed him to move to Canada.

The Saskatoon team heads to France Wednesday for the festival. The sport is helpful for recovering and building strength after surgeries, but team members say they stay in the program because of the life-long connections between women with a shared story.

Ottawa's plan for a state-of-the-art lab to help tackle emerging health threats is commendable on paper. But top health researchers say long-term funding gaps, recent staff cuts and red tape could threaten its real-world success.

The Democratic Republic of Congo says that confirmed Ebola deaths have reached 2,011, the latest grim milestone in what health officials have described as the fastest-spreading outbreak on record.

Funding ‌to tackle acute malnutrition in parts of Somalia has dropped by more than 80 per cent this year, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday, even though one in every four children screened in displacement camps in the southwest of the country is severely malnourished.

Retained tissue was found on instruments at the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital on at least two occasions this year according to meeting notes attained by CBC News in Access to Information and Privacy request.

Tara Johansson says she was stuck in a “vicious cycle” of alcoholism and addiction for years. Now, she’s helping others seek recovery in Thunder Bay, which has the highest opioid-related death rate in Ontario.

U.S. ‌President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations. Health experts warn changing the inoculation schedule leaves more children vulnerable.

An outbreak of tuberculosis that has been spreading among people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton’s downtown core for nearly a year has left two more people fighting the disease.

The daughter of a woman with Stage 4 cancer says her mother spent 20 hours on a gurney in a hallway of the emergency department at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre.

With the arrival of mosquito season, health officials are reminding residents to protect themselves against West Nile virus. While most people experience flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all, some people do experience severe illness, or death. Residents whose lives have been impacted by the virus believe there should be more public awareness.

Crystal MacCormac’s mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia at 65. The guidebook for managing her mother’s care was written by her mom, based on her experience caring for her own mother decades earlier.