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An aging population is putting a significant strain on health-care facilities across the Maritimes. As patients speak up about emergency department shortfalls, premiers are looking to the federal government for financing. Ella Macdonald reports.

As the province continues to try and bring health care workers into Saskatchewan, its advertising and recruitment plan implemented four years ago is starting to pay off. We get insight into the latest healthcare numbers and what the province is continuing to do to bolster the workforce. Also, wildlife sightings are becoming more frequent in...

Questions are surfacing after the city pulled the plug on plans for a modular housing project in Outremont. Despite spending one million dollars, the mayor said last week the land was contaminated. Oppostion party Projet Montreal says that’s wrong and the land was decontaminated more than a decade ago. But as Phil Carpenter reports, as...

The Kremlin has rejected accusations from NATO that a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Romania. The incident happened about 10 km from the Ukrainian border and a woman and a child were injured. As Redmond Shannon reports, it’s the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion four years ago that a suspected Russian drone...

A rally was held in Delta Sunday, focusing on paused funding for several seniors long-term care projects across the province. As Angela Jung reports, demonstrators say any delays in getting those facilities up and running is only going to cost even more money and heartache for our aging population.

There was excitement when the grey whale population started to rebound two years ago, but it appears that was an anomaly. Scientists are concerned after four animals were found dead in the span of a week and a half, but as Kylie Stanton reports, they have an idea of why.

Marking his first visit to Canada, the 50th Ismaili Imam, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini – known formally as the Aga Khan – met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa on Thursday. The PM praised Canada’s120,000-strong Ismaili population for its cultural and economic contributions, while the Aga Khan commended Carney’s leadership amid tumultuous global affairs, claiming...

For the first time since agreeing to the goal in 2014, NATO says Canada will spend two percent of its GDP on defence this year. Prime Minister Mark Carney travelled to the country’s most populous military base in Halifax Thursday to announce a major investment in Canada’s military infrastructure. Questions remain regarding President Donald Trump’s...

Canada’s population marked its first annual decline since Confederation, Statistics Canada data shows. Michael Haan, Director of the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western University joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss trends around immigration, birth rates, and aging.

Health-care spending in Canada is on track to reach nearly $400 billion in 2025, outpacing the country’s economic growth by 2 per cent. Inflation and an aging population are some of the main drivers of this increase according to a new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Katherine Ward has this story and...

Canadians with Down syndrome are living longer than ever before thanks in part to community support and improved medical care. But there are growing calls for the health-care system to catch up with this aging population in order to meet their needs. Caryn Lieberman explains.

Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week is an international campaign to improve awareness, early detection and treatment of valve disease globally. Valve disease is rising as Canada’s population ages, but a simple stethoscope check can save lives. Dr. Ben Tyrell joined Global News Morning Edmonton to share details.

Chambers of commerce in Atlantic Canada are speaking out against Canada’s reduced immigration targets, saying the move could negatively impact population growth and leave the region’s aging workforce shorthanded. Johnny James reports.

New Brunswick’s projected deficit has grown by more than 20 per cent. Officials are pointing to a number of factors, including timing and an aging population, but the province’s opposition members are raising concerns. Anna Mandin reports.

The Nova Scotia Centre on Aging will host the forward-thinking Our Future is Aging conference June 3–4, 2025, showcasing multidisciplinary research and innovation on aging, with keynotes on AI, population aging, and public policy. We find out more from Dr. Janice Keefe.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to boost the country’s birth rate is sparking outrage. Critics are calling it a push for the control of women’s bodies. The issue of an aging population, however, is not unique to France. Touria Izri reports on the concerns and consequences of Canada’s plummeting birth rate.

Many French retirement homes are prepared to protect the elderly from an unprecedented June heatwave, but the wider population needs to take necessary precautions, France’s Health Minister Agnes Buzyn warned on June 26.

Thu, Jan 18: A new grocery store is coming to Montreal North – a borough with an aging population, chronic unemployment and a high percentage of low-income single-parent households. As Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports, the Welcome Hall Mission hopes to help the city’s poor by offering them a convenient location to get free groceries.

Fri, Feb 9: Montreal’s English speaking seniors say they’re being excluded from consultations on how the city can be better adapted to its aging population. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.

Canada is seeing a dramatic change in its population- as the gap between the number of working age people and seniors continues to widen. Nowhere else is the shift in demographics more prominent than in the Okanagan Valley. New projections show that in thirty years over one third of Penticton’s population will be over the...