Health

MONTREAL — Ben Anson says he was outraged to see a large-scale billboard advertising Weedmaps, an app that lists local marijuana providers, crop up in a spot near several schools in Montreal earlier this year.

SASKATOON — Saskatchewan’s doctors are hoping the move to one provincewide health authority next month doesn’t hurt rural communities. Dr.

CALGARY — Will Morlidge wishes his wife had lived to see the groundbreaking of the new Calgary Cancer Centre. Morlidge and his four-year-old daughter Virginia were on hand Friday for the groundbreaking of the new $1.

CALGARY — Will Morlidge wishes his wife had lived to see the groundbreaking of the new Calgary Cancer Centre. Morlidge and his four-year-old daughter Virginia were on hand Friday for the groundbreaking of the new $1.

VANCOUVER — The airline industry and Transport Canada should develop a program requiring pilots to be tested for drugs and alcohol, the Transportation Safety Board said Thursday after releasing a report into a crash that killed two people.

NEW YORK — The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and those have been increasing for about 10 years.

KAMPALA, Uganda — When Martin Owor, a father of six, told his wife he was considering having a vasectomy, she told him it was out of the question.

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is expanding a recall of Kidde and Garrison brand fire extinguishers to cover some 2.7 million of the devices in Canada, including some that date back more than 40 years.

VICTORIA — An expert task force will advise the British Columbia government on how to eliminate medical premiums within four years.

BEIJING — A Chinese official on Friday disputed President Donald Trump's claim that the deadly opioid fentanyl flooding the U.S. is mostly produced in China.