East West Information

The Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment, with no new confirmed or probable cases since the World Health Organization's last update on Oct. 1.

Former hospital CAO Vas Georgiou and one-time construction magnate John Aquino have each been found guilty of fraud for skewing the procurement process for a major renovation to a downtown Toronto hospital in a ruling that has echoes for all public contracts. 

People in Ontario will have fast-tracked access to some new cancer drugs, Sylvia Jones, the province's deputy premier and minister of health announced Tuesday. 

Halifax has launched a new civilian team to help people in distress in the Dartmouth area as an alternative to calling police. The pilot project called CARE — Crisis Assistance and Response — began Monday.

A Prince Edward Island woman spent seven years in agony after a seemingly minor ankle injury led to "just excruciating pain" that she at times rated as a 25 on a scale of one to 10. 

The recall applies to the hot cinnamon and winter mint flavours of Chillows THC pouches. The products were labelled as having 10 milligrams of THC, but in fact contain higher levels of the chemical in cannabis that produces a high.

If all goes to plan, next February could see the return of humans to the moon. Four people — NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will see it as no one has before. And they will also be collecting valuable health data on themselves.