Morgan Birch was puzzled when her four-month-old daughter, Kimie, suddenly fell ill with a fever and rash.
At first, the Alberta mother assumed it was a common side effect of immunisations – or perhaps a case of chicken pox. Ms Birch then consulted her 78-year-old grandmother, who recognised Kimie’s illness immediately.
“That’s measles,” her grandmother said. Ms Birch was stunned, as she thought the disease had been eradicated.
A lab test later confirmed her grandmother’s hypothesis: Kimie had measles, likely contracted after a routine visit to the hospital in the Edmonton area a few weeks earlier.
Children will be taught that “worrying and feeling down” are normal and are not mental health conditions, as concerns grow over a sharp rise in young people on sickness benefits.
One the leaders of the Arab Power street gang was killed in a Quebec prison.
A buck toothed national mascot throttling a squawking bald eagle under the headline “You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are” had to get people talking. I suspect many who opined about it have not even read the extensive cover story in a recent issue of New York Magazine by Simon Van Zuylen Wood that attempted to let Americans know just how angry Canadians are about President Trump’s trade war.