Health

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver cannabis company is scrambling to keep up with a flood of orders for marijuana-filled advent calendars, but the novel take on a popular Christmas tradition has some health experts ringing alarm bells.

CALGARY — Lawyers say just because parents convicted in the meningitis death of their toddler are taking their case to the Supreme Court that doesn't mean they will get the privilege of a long deliberation.

VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia has good news for anyone who's been a little nervous about sinking their teeth into a juicy hamburger ever since horse meat was found in European beef a few years ago.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Peel regional police say a Mississauga, Ont., doctor is charged in a voyeurism investigation. Police say two women allege a camera was placed in the employee washroom of the Lakeshore Cawthra Medical Centre.

OTTAWA — The CFL may have a new commissioner but the league's position on whether football head injuries are linked to brain disease hasn't changed: there isn't enough evidence to confirm the connection.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's acting chief medical officer of health is warning the public about a deadly drug that's far more powerful than fentanyl. Dr.

REGINA — A candidate for premier of Saskatchewan is walking back his anti-abortion comments while some female politicians and women's groups say abortion should no longer be up for political debate.

REGINA — A Saskatchewan government survey suggests most respondents want legal recreational marijuana to be regulated in much the same way as alcohol.

REGINA — A Saskatchewan government survey suggests most respondents want legal recreational marijuana to be regulated in much the same way as alcohol.

Halifax police say they are investigating the suspicious death of a 70-year-old man at a continuing care home in Dartmouth. Police say they were alerted to reports of an assault at Clarmar Care Ltd.