A Moncton woman says she feels she’s not in control of her own reproductive decisions, after losing access to her addiction treatment because she and her doctor don’t agree on the birth control method she’s chosen.Rebecca Billard feels that access to her opioid addiction treatment, Sublocade, is a matter of life or death. (Pierre Fournier/CBC)A…
A Burnaby, B.C., woman who just won the largest Lotto Max draw in B.C. history says she made the decision to buy the lottery ticket on the spur of the moment.Christin Lauzon received a cheque for $70 million after drawing the winning numbers in the Sept. 28 Lotto Max draw. (BCLC)A Burnaby, B.C., woman who just won the…
A Cambridge woman is demanding an apology from Ontario MPP Randy Hillier after a photo and personal information of her late sister, who died from a rare autoimmune disease, were used without permission in his anti-vaccination social media posts.Ammarah Navab, of Cambridge, Ont., left, says her sister Farisa Navab died on Sept. 11 after being diagnosed with…
A woman was badly injured when she was attacked by a herd of cows that have free rein in a Welsh village. The tourist, who is in her 30s, was left with a broken arm on Tuesday when the cow flicked its head and hit her. People in the village of Southgate on the Gower…
Elissa Montanti runs the Global Medical Relief Fund, which was in danger of shutting down during the pandemic. But this past spring,…
Workers at an inn in Lunenburg, N.S., used social media to track down the owner of a photo album left there in 2012.A photo album found at an inn in Lunenburg, N.S., contained photographs of family celebrations going back as far as 1988. (Submitted by Stephanie Tanner)Two weeks ago, Stephanie Tanner’s co-worker at the Mariner…
N.S. woman airlifted to hospital after suspected shark bite | CBC News LoadedNova ScotiaRCMP in Nova Scotia say a 22-year-old woman has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being bitten by what is believed to be a shark in waters off Cape Breton.RCMP say the woman was swimming from a boat near Margaree…
A new Niagara Historical Society book chronicles the forgotten or never-recognized stories of Black women from the region, including how one woman helped keep a Black man free after he escaped slavery in Kentucky by stealing his “owner’s” horse and came to Canada.Winnifred Wesley, shown in this Niagara Public School photograph, is one of the…
A Yukon woman who spent weeks fighting for her life against COVID-19 is urging others to do what she did not: get vaccinated.Lisa Anderson of Dawson City, Yukon, is still recovering from COVID-19 in hospital in Vancouver. After her harrowing experience, she’s willing to get the vaccine. (Submitted by Lisa Anderson)A Yukon woman who spent weeks fighting for…
A woman who was sacked after pulling a sickie to go to the Euro 2020 semi-final took on a new role as a football pundit for Pizza Express last night. Nina Farooqi, 37, from Ilkley, West Yorkshire, pretended to be ill so she could watch the England vs Denmark clash at Wembley Stadium. Her plan…