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This is what Canada’s pain medication shortages have been like for chronic pain patients
Amanda Godda has been bedridden since August. That’s when her prescription of acetaminophen with oxycodone was hit by a nationwide supply shortage. Since then, the 42-year-old has gone from working tight deadlines and long days at music festivals to only getting up to make a sandwich or wash herself in the sink. “I’m basically teetering between an eight and nine…
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The 26 best Hallmark Christmas movies, ranked
‘Tis the season for a good old-fashioned Hallmark marathon. Christmas is like the Super Bowl for the channel, a season-long extravaganza where the plots tend to be rather interchangeable, but that’s part of their appeal. No matter how many times we watch a city woman return to her idyllic country hometown and strike up a connection with a handsome stranger…
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Gill Dropped; selectors call back Ishan Kishan and Rinku Singh
Taking a bold call with an eye to maximise impact over reputation, the Indian selectors on Saturday dropped Shubman Gill from the T20 World Cup squad and brought back wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan along with Rinku Singh. Gill’s omission is the most interesting decision of the selection meeting in Mumbai although given his form, it wasn’t very surprising. Despite being one…
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The right-wing group rallying youth in South Korea
Jake KwonSeoul correspondent BBC/Hosu Lee Many among South Korea’s anti-government youth protesters are taking cues from the American right’s Maga movement The line for a selfie with South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol stretched around Seoul’s iconic Gwanghwamun gate. Except Yoon wasn’t there; it was just a picture of him. The real Yoon is in prison facing insurrection…
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Investigators struggled to identify suspect while Brown University gunman went on to kill again, timeline shows
By the time it finally ended, five full days after the shooting, the manhunt for the Brown University gunman surpassed the four-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers and was on par with the five-day pursuit of Luigi Mangione in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting case. In the days the gunman was on the run, investigators say he went on to…
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Ozempic Nation – Canadian Affairs
Read: 5 min It took Alexis Adebanke Ladejobi more than a year to try the weight loss drug Ozempic due to fears about its side effects. “I was very skeptical at first,” said Ladejobi, who lives in Toronto. “I had a nurse practitioner that would tell me, ‘Don’t take it, they all have side effects’.” But after the 46-year-old finally…
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From Marty Supreme to Montreal, My Beautiful: The top 25 movies of 2025
Despite a seemingly unending wave of bad news about the industry, 2025 managed to serve up more than a few phenomenal movies. From historical biopics to animated outings to a water polo camp from hell, here are some of our favourite releases from the past year. 25. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Like an anxiety attack by proxy,…
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Armed gangs are vying to fill the vacuum left by Hamas in Israeli-occupied Gaza
When Sheikh Mohammed Abu Mustafa stepped out of his mosque in southern Gaza after leading afternoon prayers in early November, a gunman on a motorcycle pulled up and shot him dead. It was a targeted assassination that that an Islamist militant group said was carried out by local Israeli-backed militia. A Hamas-linked group later claimed that the slain imam was…
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Courts will lean toward animals who are silent victims of commercial ventures: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has observed that courts will always lean in favour of animals, who suffer silently when their migration paths are blocked by humans and commercial ventures. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi deferred the hearing on a batch of petitions filed by the owners of hotels and…
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How FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Can Put Patients’ Lives at Risk — ProPublica
Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she’d found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet cheesecake. It was her 21st birthday. The celebration with her family that evening in February 2023 was a milestone not just for her age, but because she was alive. Three and a half years…
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