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'It haunts my dreams': Heather Winterstein’s mother reflects on marathon inquest into Ontario ER death

‘It haunts my dreams’: Heather Winterstein’s mother reflects on marathon inquest into Ontario ER death

Francine Shimizu-Orgar has frequent nightmares when her mind replays moments from the recent inquest into her daughter’s death at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital. But if the inquiry, which the family pushed for, wasn’t held, what happened to 24-year-old Heather Winterstein “would never have come out,” Shimizu-Orgar tells CBC from the family home in the Niagara region city.

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Sports

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec, Social

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Ontario/Quebec, Weather

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

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Paola Loriggio

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Star

January 6, 2026

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It’s like Amazon for hard drugs: cocaine, heroin and ecstasy,…

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N.B. couple shot dead in drug trafficking murder-for-hire plot against son, Crown tells jury
Star

January 6, 2026

N.B. couple shot dead in drug trafficking murder-for-hire plot against son, Crown tells jury

An elderly Dieppe couple were shot once each by a…

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Cheaper obesity medications could come to Canada this summer, as Health Canada reviews generics
Star

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Cheaper obesity medications could come to Canada this summer, as Health Canada reviews generics

In Canada, the patent for some semaglutide drugs has expired,…

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Labour, National, Ontario/Quebec, Politics

January 5, 2026

Liam Casey

As Ontario civil servants return to office full time, union calls order ‘ridiculous’

TORONTO — Ontario government employees are expected to return to…

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