Tara Carman

Mar 27, 2024 | cbc.ca | Tara Carman |Andreas Wesley

It's a typical weekday in Beth Acton's Montreal home. Two of her children are at school, but another, 12-year-old Connor, is asleep upstairs under a pile of Squishmallows. Acton logs on to an app on her phone to report Connor's latest absence to his school, something she's been doing regularly since the fall of 2022, which was the second time Connor got COVID-19. "He is ill very, very frequently. You know, kind of catches anything that's going around….

Nov 30, 2023 | cbc.ca | Lisa Johnson |Tara Carman

Deep in the wilderness of Vancouver Island’s Klanawa Valley, down a maze of logging roads hours from the nearest town, a gravel road divides two worlds. On one side is a parched, treeless slope covered in green and brown shrubs, gnarled debris and hundreds of dried-out, white stumps. On the other is a lush, sun-dappled forest with ancient spruces hundreds of feet tall and thick moss coating their trunks.

Oct 5, 2023 | cbc.ca | Aloysius Wong |Tara Carman |Ronna Syed |Jorge Barrera

CBC InvestigatesCan't afford or not allowed AC in your apartment? You're not aloneA new survey of low- and middle-income tenants reveals how affordability and lease agreements create barriers to tenants securing adequate cooling to escape extreme indoor heat in the summer. Landlords say solving the problem is more complex than it may seem, requiring coordination with different civil bodies.

Sep 27, 2023 | cbc.ca | Tara Carman

A Health Canada review has found there is a risk of psychiatric withdrawal effects when women using the drug domperidone to stimulate breast milk production suddenly stop taking it. Health Canada will update the product monograph, or scientific description of a drug's properties "to note that cases of psychiatric withdrawal events have been reported," the regulator said in a statement posted on its Drug and Health Product Portal.

Sep 13, 2023 | cbc.ca | Lisa Johnson |Tara Carman |Lori Ward |Dexter McMillan

Sam Johnson is out of breath as she answers the door, beads of sweat on her brow. She puts a hand to the back of her neck. “It’s soaking wet,” she says. It’s 9 p.m. and it’s 29 degrees in her apartment in New Westminster, B.C., a suburb of Vancouver. It’s been above 27 C all day. Johnson, 79, has heart failure and uses a walker or a cane to get around. Even with four fans going, the unrelenting heat in her apartment takes a toll, she says. “I sleep maybe two and a half hours, half an hour at a time.