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More Palestinian families flee Gaza City as Israel prepares to launch a new offensive, targeting what it describes as Hamas’s last stronghold.

Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.

Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed say they saw adolescents who needed medical attention due to dietary supplements or performance drugs over the previous year.

The majority of cases were boys and more than half of them were between 13 and 15 years old.

Almost a third of the patients were even younger — between 10 and 12 years old.

Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children’s cardiac hospital in Kyiv.

Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood.

One year after a devastating rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital that killed four and injured a dozen, the century-old facility is getting ready to reopen — with help from the Canadian Red Cross.

The family of a Norwegian hiker whose body was recovered over the weekend from the shores of the Hayes River in northern Manitoba says an autopsy shows the man drowned.

Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, was on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness when he set out on foot with his two dogs from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, Man., last month. 

He was expected to arrive in York Factory on Aug. 15 but never made it. 

Police had said Skjottelvik may have tried to cross the swift-moving Hayes River and got swept up.

Originally from Winnipeg, Love & the Outcome, a husband-and-wife musical duo, has made waves in the Christian music scene. 

The pair, now based in Nashville, has released a handful of albums since it was first signed to Curb | Word Entertainment in 2013. Over the years, songs such as “You got this” and “I’m not lucky — I’m blessed” have defined the sound of the group.

The poet Samuel Coleridge once described friendship as "a sheltering tree."

When you have the quality of a sheltering tree, the branches of your friendship reach out over the lives of others, giving them shelter, shade, rest, relief, and encouragement....

Friends give comfort. We find strength near them. They bear fruit that provides nourishment and encouragement.  When something troublesome occurs in our life, we pick up the phone and call a friend, needing the comfort he or she provides. I think there are few things more lonely than having no friend to call. 

Isaiah 26:3

You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

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Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Christy Fabbri was a hairdresser before joining the CHVN team, which would lead to a very memorable moment for the entire Fabbri family.

Not knowing anything about radio, she was at work doing a CHVN employee's hair when she was encouraged to apply. "I had an acting background. I was doing someone's hair that worked here, and she's like, 'You have an acting background. You should come in and apply,'" Fabbri said. 

Funeral For:  Helen Meda
Funeral Date: August 29, 2025 
Helen Meda, 91, of Vita formerly of Lonesand, passed away Saturday, August 23rd at Vita Personal Care Home. She is survived by 1 sister, 1 brother, and their families. She was predeceased by her husband Michael and 2 brothers. 
The funeral service for Helen Meda will be held Friday, August 29th at 11am at Birchwood Funeral Chapel, Steinbach with ash interment at Ridgeland Cemetery, Sundown, Manitoba.  
Arrangements by Birchwood Funeral Chapel, Steinbach.
 

Funeral For:  Elnora Ella Neufeld nee Klassen 
Funeral Date: September 2, 2025 
Elnora Ella Neufeld nee Klassen, 100, of Winkler passed away Saturday, August 23rd at Tabor Home, Morden. She is survived by 2 daughters. She was predeceased by her husband Jacob E. Neufeld.  
A memorial service for Elnora Ella Neufeld nee Klassen will be held Tuesday, September 2nd at 11am at Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church with burial prior to the service at Blumenfeld Cemetery. 
Donations may be made to Gateway Resources Incorporated.