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The federal government is boosting taxes for tobacco and vaping as laid out in its 2024 budget. The government will collect an additional four dollars per carton of 200 cigarettes. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for April 17, 2024.

New Zealand says it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell the products to minors. The move comes less than a month after the government repealed a unique law enacted by the previous left-leaning government. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Mar. 20,...

Police say a fire at a vape shop in Peterborough, Ont., early Saturday is an act of arson. Officers around 5 a.m. found a door smashed and a fire set inside the My Vapour Guy store at the Brealey Plaze on Lansdowne Street West. No injuries were reported but a suspect was seen leaving the...

The UK Government announced it is banning disposable vapes, should something similar happen here in Canada?

The province of Saskatchewan as set the age requirement for certain tobacco and vape products at 19, as of Feb. 1, 2024.

After winning the first three of a best-of-seven games series against the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, the Cape Breton Eagles are closing in on their first QMJHL semifinal berth since 2007. Sylvain Couturier, the general manager for the Cape Breton Eagles, tells Global News that the whole city of Sydney, N.S., has been rallying behind his team.

Canada’s Minister of National Defence Bill Blair said in Toronto on Tuesday that it was “very clear” that the federal government is “absolutely committed” to increasing the supply of homes in communities across the country. “We need good partners in all orders of government — at the municipal and provincial level — in order to...

An Ontario man who suffered a medical emergency in Costa Rica is trying to get back home. His family has all the paperwork in order, but the only obstacle is finding a hospital in Ontario willing to accept him. But as Sean O’Shea reports, this is not the first time a Canadian family has encountered...

In the latest installment of our series Code Critical, a Cape Breton woman is sharing her struggles with the family doctor shortage in Nova Scotia. Rather than putting her name on the growing waitlist, she says she chose to endure five hours of travel each way to continue seeing her current physician. Skye Bryden-Blom reports.

While there’s a renewed push from the province to do more to keep tobacco and vaping products out of the hands of kids, there’s still no plan to crack down on something that many provinces have already banned. Lisa MacGregor reports.

London Drugs pharmacist Penny Lehoux discusses some of the health risks of smoking and some of the most effective strategies for quitting.

Holland Bloorview’s eighth annual Capes for Kids campaign has kicked off. Ambassador Irene Memelli and her mother Maria join Candace Daniel to discuss how you can support youth with disabilities and developmental differences.

The B.C. government has revamped its program to compensate businesses vandalized, after red tape and onerous requirements led many to be rejected. Kristen Robinson reports.

An American man was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for the rape and murder of a tourist and the attempted murder of her friend, both from the U.S., in a brutal attack near the country’s most famous tourist destination, the Neuschwanstein Castle.

Warning: Disturbing content. Indian police detained three men and are searching for four others accused of attacking two tourists and gang-raping the woman, authorities said on Sunday.

The weather woes continue in parts of Cape Breton. Residents and municipal crews are rushing to haul away huge snowbanks and clearing drainage systems, in hopes of mitigating any flooding caused by heavy rainfall moving in Friday night. Shelley Steeves reports.

On Thursday, a Winnipeg police forensic team responded to the scene of a homicide on Magnus Avenue that left one man dead. Three suspects were tracked by a police helicopter fleeing the scene and apprehended by police.

Rescues and cleanup is continuing after unprecedented snow across Nova Scotia over the weekend. Additional search and rescue teams, along with crews from the provincial government, set out to bring supplies to trapped residents. As Zack Power explains, some expect to still be stuck for a few more days.

It’s another day of cleanup in Cape Breton as residents continue to grapple with the fallout of the weekend storm. Streets in the Sydney area started to slowly reopen Tuesday, but as Zack Power explains, some who are stranded worry they may run out of supplies before their street is plowed.

Days after a fast and furious snowstorm hammered Cape Breton, N.S., many people are still trapped inside their homes. Heidi Petracek reports on the pleas for more plows as patience runs thin.