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Mycoplasma genitalium: The prevalent, highly drug-resistant new STI nobody’s testing forResearchers have found the first evidence of sexually transmitted infection Mycoplasma Genitalium in Canada. It's highly prevalent, inordinately drug-resistant, and clinics aren't testing for itCanadaMay 24, 2016
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‘The war on STIs has failed’: Reinventing the way we tackle sexual diseaseWe're better at treating, preventing and screening for sexually transmitted infections than ever before. So why are the number of instances of STIs going up?CanadaMay 23, 2016
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Safe sex misconceptions: Things you should know about STIsWe asked an STI clinician and an epidemiologist for some tips, and the things they wish people knew.CanadaMay 23, 2016
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Tracking sexually transmitted infections in a Tinder ageApps aren't making people promiscuous. But they can make it much trickier to trace the path of infections passed on through casual sex.CanadaMay 23, 2016
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Crisis pregnancy centres mislead women, report saysDozens of crisis pregnancy centres across Canada, many aided by tax dollars, offer counselling and pregnancy tests. But not abortion referrals.CanadaMay 20, 2016
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‘Jails are not hospitals’: Health workers call for end to incarcerating sick detaineesProvincial and federal governments are under renewed pressure to stop putting immigration detainees with severe mental illness in jail and solitary confinement indefinitely.CanadaMay 17, 2016
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Canada is getting a trans rights bill next weekJustice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould will introduce legislation making gender identity a prohibited ground for discrimination in Canada's Human Rights Act and make it an identifiable group protected from hate crimes.CanadaMay 13, 2016
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‘They like having people in debt’: Your payday loan storiesFollowing our payday loan stories this week, we've heard from people who loved working for payday loan companies, and who hated it; who got badly needed cash and who found themselves taking out loans to repay loans for years on end.CanadaMay 13, 2016
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Alberta slashing payday loan fees to lowest in CanadaAs jurisdictions across Canada look to rein in payday loan companies, Alberta plans to make its fees the lowest in the country.CanadaMay 12, 2016
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‘We are loan sharks’: Why one woman’s leaving the payday loan businessAs Google bans ads and Alberta prepares to unveil new payday loan legislation, Global News talks to one woman about what it's like on the other side of the counter.CanadaMay 11, 2016
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Income immobility: Fewer Canadians are moving up – or down – the income ladderThe highest-earning people in Canada stay in that richest tranche; the lowest-earning people are stuck at the bottom. Those strata are the most entrenched they've been in decades.MoneyMay 8, 2016
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What gives Fort McMurray an edge in overcoming ‘beast’ of a wildfireFort McMurray's youth comes in handy in a crisis. So does industrial and public infrastructure built with worst-case scenarios in mind.CanadaMay 6, 2016
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Fort McMurray exodus: 1 mom, 2 daughters, 4 horses, 3 dogs and a cat make wildfire escapeCora Dion could have handled her two daughters, three dogs and a cat as they made their way from Fort McMurray to Edmonton. But she had four horses, and a two-horse trailer.CanadaMay 5, 2016
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Ontario won’t commit to ending use of mental illness as a reason for solitary confinementOntario corrections officers are breaking the province's own rules -- and breaching the terms of a human rights settlement -- by using mental illness as a reason for segregating inmates.CanadaMay 5, 2016
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Feds eliminate extra access-to-info feesYou'll no longer be asked to pay thousands of dollars to access public information.CanadaMay 5, 2016
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Wounded warriors: Afghanistan trauma takes a greater toll on military careers than other disordersCanadians with mental illness related to their service in Afghanistan have higher rates of PTSD and higher rates of "medical release" from the military as a result.CanadaMay 3, 2016
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A severely sick man spent 400 days in solitary. This isn’t an anomaly: In Canada, it’s commonSevere illness was the reason Canada's border police put him in jail. It was the reason, once in jail, he was placed in solitary confinement.CanadaApr 29, 2016
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Liberals pledge to implement all access-to-information promises ‘as quickly as possible’The Liberals say they'll bring in all their promised access-to-information reforms as soon as possible - potentially as early as this winter.CanadaApr 28, 2016
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Delta deal’s signed, but Bombardier still wants federal cashYes, Bombardier just signed a multi-billion-dollar aircraft deal. But the Quebec-based company still wants federal cash.PoliticsApr 28, 2016
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Liberals pledge to strengthen info watchdog, but her funding’s at lowest point since 2009The Liberals campaigned on a promise to strengthen the Information Commissioner. Her budget's smaller than it's been in years.CanadaApr 28, 2016
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How racist are we, really? The case for quantifying systemic biasOntario Human Rights Commissioner wants Ontario police to collect race-based data on every traffic stop and use of force, in order to track systemic racism.CanadaApr 27, 2016
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Would you want to know if your doctor got money from pharma companies?It's not uncommon for health practitioners to have relationships with industry, but there's no law in Canada requiring doctors to disclose that information to patients.CanadaApr 25, 2016
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Assisted death bill could land feds in court all over againThe driving forces behind Carter v. Canada, which struck down the prohibition on assisted death, may take the government to court again over what they argue is an unconstitutional law.CanadaApr 21, 2016
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Assisted death: What happens if there’s no new law?The Criminal Code's prohibition on physician-assisted death expires June 6 - no matter what the federal government does or doesn't do.CanadaApr 21, 2016
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House poor: Canadians who earn the least pay the most for a homeForget house-flipping or multi-million-dollar teardowns: Canada's soaring housing prices hurt people at the bottom of the income spectrum the most.CanadaApr 18, 2016
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