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At least 4 buildings burned at Jasper Park Lodge, others damaged: Fairmont memo
The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge said Thursday afternoon most of its structures are 'standing and intact,' including its iconic main lodge.
An influential U.S. health panel is recommending mammograms begin 10 years earlier than the current recommendation, a move that a number of Canadian doctors and breast cancer survivors have also been demanding for years.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a draft guidance on Tuesday calling for biannual breast cancer screenings to start at age 40. Currently, national guidelines on both sides of the border recommend screenings start at 50.
In Canada, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths. But for many Canadian women in their 40s, mammograms are often a request, not a recommendation.
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care -- the Public Health Agency of Canada's independent expert panel -- currently recommends mammograms every two to three years for women aged 50 to 74.
For women aged 40 to 49, the task force recommends against mammograms unless they're at an increased risk of breast cancer.
"The balance of benefits and harms is less favourable for women of this age than for older women," the task force says on its website.
But groups like Dense Breasts Canada have been petitioning the federal health minister to begin routine mammogram testing at 40, when the cancer is often more aggressive. Some provinces are already doing routine screening for breast cancer at 40, such as B.C., P.E.I. and Nova Scotia.
Many survivors and experts say screening guidelines in Canada are antiquated and need to change.
"I see in my practice, women in their 40s who say, 'I’ve been asking to be screened' and they say their family doctors say 'No, I'm not allowed to, it doesn’t meet the guidelines,'" Dr. Jean Seely, head of breast imaging at Ottawa General Hospital, told CTV National News. "And this is why we need to update these guidelines because it is harming patients and some people are dying from these guidelines."
Sherry Wilcox was 44 years old when she found a small lump in her breast, and part of her battle was simply getting diagnosed. Her family physician said she was too young to have a mammogram and instead referred her to an ultrasound clinic.
"When we got the results back, it showed something abnormal. They didn’t seem too worried, but they did tell me to come back in 16 weeks to confirm. And I think at that point, I said, 'That's not good enough, I want a mammogram,'" Wilcox told CTV National News.
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Care's guidelines are reviewed every five years and are set to be evaluated again this year.
"I really had to fight for that mammogram and I thank myself everyday that I did advocate for myself in that way. But I can't help thinking about others who may not be as confident in their self-advocacy," said Wilcox.
The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge said Thursday afternoon most of its structures are 'standing and intact,' including its iconic main lodge.
Scotiabank says it has fixed a technical issue that impacted direct deposits on Friday morning.
Police in Mississauga are conducting a full-scale search of the city’s biggest park for a non-verbal toddler who went missing Thursday evening. Sgt. Jennifer Trimble told reporters Friday morning that there has been no trace of three-year-old Zaid Abdullah since 6:20 p.m., when he was last seen with his parents in Erindale Park, near Dundas Street West and Mississauga Road.
Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal has denied a political group that opposes so-called “gender ideology” intervener status in a legal dispute over the province’s controversial pronoun law.
A hearing in the case of Justin Timberlake being accused of driving while intoxicated was held Friday, where an attorney for the singer disputed his arrest in June.
Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, publicly refuted several recent anti-trans statements her Tesla CEO and X owner father has made about her.
French transport was thrust into chaos Friday just hours ahead of the Olympics 2024 opening ceremony after a series of co-ordinated 'malicious acts' upended high-speed train lines.Here's what happened and what we know so far.
Disgraced and imprisoned movie mogul Harvey Weinstein 'tested positive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs,' Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein’s spokesman, said in a statement Thursday.
Last year, reported child pornography cases increased by more than 50 per cent in Canada, in part due to more cases being sent to police by specialized internet child exploitation units, according to a Statistics Canada report.
As fire threatened people in Jasper National Park, Colleen Knull sprung into action.
Video posted to social media on Thursday morning appears to show the charred remains of a Jasper, Alta., neighbourhood.
A Saskatchewan-born veteran of the Second World War was recently presented with France's highest national order.
A local First Nations elder and veteran is helping to bring the Ojibwe language to a well-known film for the first time.
A cat who fled her Montreal home nearly a decade ago has been reunited with her family after being found in Ottawa.
A woman in Waterloo, Ont. is out thousands of dollars for a car crash she wasn’t involved in.
A swarm of bees living in a lamppost in Winnipeg’s Sage Creek neighbourhood has found a new home for its hive.
Around 100 acres of Manitoba Crown Land near the Saskatchewan border is being returned to the Métis community.
Nova Scotia is suspending the licensed Cape Breton moose hunt for three years due to what the province is calling a “significant drop” in the population.