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Despite a growing community in Penticton, the school district is looking to close three schools as the population growth is mainly seniors.

Quebec is changing its controversial plan to build two mini private hospitals. Instead of providing services to a wider public, the latest plan is to focus on services for seniors.

Little Brothers of Montreal, a community organization that provides services for seniors, hosted an Easter brunch for their clients as a way to help the elders beat isolation.

The University of Waterloo is attempting to develop new talent and ideas on how cities should be managed and built with the unveiling of its' new Future Cities Institute.

The union alleges that Interior Health has ignored renewed calls for increased security on site on top of ongoing staffing shortages.

The U.K. announced in late March that it will commission an independent study into glare from bright car headlights but it is unclear whether Canada will do the same.

Neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, migraines, stroke and multiple sclerosis, are now the leading of ill health and disability around the world.

City reiterates pledge there are no plans to move IHC to the former long-term care home

The New Brunswick government is boasting that today's $13.3-billion budget includes the most spending on health care in provincial history.

Canadian women aged 65 and older were less likely than men to visit medical specialists and get non-emergency tests, according to a recent Statistics Canada report.

'We know that we have an aging population, we need to keep investing in our seniors.'

The government’s annual financial blueprint will be tabled inside the Ontario legislature by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy around 4 p.m.

Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News found most Canadians are choosing to have fewer children because life is too expensive.

A new study paints a bleak picture of Quebec's youth protection system. Many children who age out of care have trouble getting an education and maintaining a job.

Encampments and other issues related to homelessness continue to grow in and around Montreal, as does debate on how to best to serve that population and find solutions.

Every spring, teams visit the nests of introduced Canada geese In the Okanagan to addle eggs in a population control effort. This year's program's has reached the halfway mark.

Statistics Canada's data showed that the number of youth receiving employment insurance in February increased for the fourth consecutive month.

From 2019 to 2020, Cape Breton University tripled its efforts to recruit international students, before being forced to scale back as they couldn't find anywhere to live or work.

Although mosquitoes breed and hatch in standing water, crews don't have to wait for more rain to start applying the larvicide.

Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives are delaying passage of four bills at the legislature, prompting an angry response from a labour leader.