Drowning

• Support pouring in for N.S. family of missing 4-year-old in fishing tragedy

  A Nova Scotia community is coming together to support a local family as an extensive multi-day search for a child in Guysborough County has been suspended for now.

  Canada

  Apr 21
  
• Man missing, presumed drowned near Wreck Beach in Vancouver

  Mounties said that around 3 p.m. they received a report of a man who was in the water off Wreck Beach yelling for help and struggling to swim.

  Canada

  Apr 18
  
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• Dad says U.S. treatment Canadian doctors dubbed as ‘witchcraft’ will help son

  A Quebec father says he had to take his son to the United States for care after alleging doctors in Montreal wrote off his son’s chances at survival.

  Health

  Jan 8
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• Man pulled from Toronto’s Bluffer’s Park Beach dies in hospital

  Toronto police say a man in his 20s was pulled from the water at Bluffer's Park Beach on Monday. He later died in hospital.

  Canada

  Sep 3, 2024
• 4-year-old girl drowns at Chilliwack leisure centre

  Police said family members had pulled the girl from the water and bystanders jumped in to provide CPR. 

  Canada

  Aug 6, 2024
• Young boy drowns during kayaking trip with father in northern Alberta: RCMP

  Slave Lake RCMP said the pair failed to return from their boating trip as scheduled Saturday evening.

  Health

  Aug 6, 2024
• Boy, 4, drowns in residential pool southwest of Montreal

  Emergency services were alerted at around 8:30 p.m. about a child in cardiac arrest who had been found in a pool in Beauharnois, Que.

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2024
• 2 dead, including teen, in separate drownings in southwestern Ontario

  Two separate drownings have resulted in the deaths of a 66-year-old woman in Goderich, Ont. and a 16-year-old youth in Lakeshore, Ont.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2024
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• ‘One death is too many’: Life-saving society focuses on Manitoba newcomers

  It's National Drowning Prevention Week, and Manitoba's life-saving organization says it's focusing its public education campaign on newcomer communities.

  Health

  Jul 22, 2024
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• Family tragedy: Boy, 14, drowns in Lake Erie, Ont. at beach, father, brother rescued

  The body of a 14-year-old boy was pulled from Lake Erie on Tuesday after he failed to surface on Sunday off Port Stanley, Ont. Locals say more water safety measures are needed.

  Canada

  Jul 18, 2024