Health

SASKATOON — The Canadian Cancer Society and the Lung Association are recommending that Saskatchewan make 21 the legal age to buy marijuana.

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BOSTON — Advocacy groups have sued Hulu in an effort to force the subscription streaming service to provide an audio track that helps people who are blind or visually impaired enjoy TV shows and movies.

CHICAGO — Attempted suicides, drug overdoses, cutting and other types of self-injury have increased substantially in U.S. girls, a 15-year study of emergency room visits found.

SASKATOON — A worker has been taken to a Saskatoon hospital in an industrial accident at a manufacturing facility. Police were called to Prairie Machine and Parts around 11 a.m. where they were told a worker had been hurt on the job.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is struggling to track the impact of its historic effort to resettle upwards of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the federal auditor general concluded Tuesday in his fall report.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Halton regional police say a residential counsellor at a facility in Oakville, Ont., has been charged with assaulting a resident.

NEW YORK — A new look at cancer in the U.S. finds that nearly half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, poor diet and other unhealthy behaviours .

OTTAWA — Some of the key findings from the fall 2017 report of federal auditor general Michael Ferguson: — It is going to take years and "much more" than the original projected $540 million over three years to fix the chronic and ongoing problems wit

TRENTON, N.J. — Could there be a second life for the once-popular arthritis pill Vioxx? A startup pharmaceutical company hopes so. Merck & Co.