Nearly 3,500 families contributed to the cohort, which followed the children from before birth to adolescence in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto.
The researchers then assessed the children’s emotional and behavioural well-being two years later, when they were five.
It was early June when representatives of the Ford government’s home care agency penned an increasingly frustrated and urgent legal letter to one of its vendors.
Weeks after a
ransomware attack, officials were still trying to work out how many Ontarians had been impacted.
“Just want to reiterate the urgency around the numbers,” a representative of Ontario Health atHome wrote in an email on June 9, 2025.
“We really need to understand our actual exposure (not the potential exposure). Anything you and your client can do to expedite and provide this information sooner rather than later would be appreciated.”
Two months earlier, the company — Ontario Medical Supply (OMS) — had informed Ontario Health atHome its systems had been breached.
Read more to find out how the breach affected patients.
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When should colorectal cancer screenings start?
On Wednesday, the Canadian Cancer Society called on provinces and territories to lower the colorectal cancer screening age to 45.
It said people under 50 are two-to-2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer than they were in previous generations.
“That growth is something that’s very concerning for us and we think that it’s time for governments to react to that so that we can catch more of these cancers early,” said Brandon Purcell, advocacy manager for prevention and early detection at the Canadian Cancer Society, in an interview.
Read more to find out why experts are calling on the screening age to be lowered.
The first-of-its-kind research conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto analyzed dietary data of 2,077 Canadian three-year-olds collected from September 2011 to April 2018 in the 
