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At 14 years old, Jack the corgi is struggling with aging. His back legs are wavering, spine is sagging, discs are bulging, and he has trouble standing. To address these challenges and improve his quality of life, Jack’s caregiver turned to veterinary acupuncture. Positive results followed, she told This Morning, a British talk show, “He walks a lot easier. When he’s had this, he goes home and lays down, and he just rolls upside down, legs akimbo; it’s more a relaxed sleep… He even actually plays with his toys a bit more.” These effects dovetail with many seen in other animals undergoing acupuncture—and those results are helping drive the practice into the mainstream.

Flu season is off to an early start this year, according to Lakelands Public Health, with the first confirmed case of influenza being reported in early September.

Infectious disease experts say Canada’s flu season started about seven weeks earlier than usual this year, but with proper interventions, there is no need to sound the alarm bells just yet. According to data from Health Canada, 6.1 per cent of tests detected influenza in the week ending Oct. 17. For the same week in 2025, 0.8 per cent of tests came back positive. Health Canada defines the epidemic threshold at five per cent, a mark Canada didn’t surpass until mid-November last year. “It’s still within the range of not being unusual, but it absolutely started earlier,” Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University Health Network in Toronto, told Global News. Bogoch said it is difficult to know exactly why flu season started earlier this year but noted that Australia’s flu season ended later than usual. Story continues below advertisement

At 14 years old, Jack the corgi is struggling with aging. His back legs are wavering, spine is sagging, discs are bulging, and he has trouble standing. To address these challenges and improve his quality of life, Jack’s caregiver turned to veterinary acupuncture. Positive results followed, she told This Morning, a British talk show, “He walks a lot easier. When he’s had this, he goes home and lays down, and he just rolls upside down, legs akimbo; it’s more a relaxed sleep… He even actually plays with his toys a bit more.” These effects dovetail with many seen in other animals undergoing acupuncture—and those results are helping drive the practice into the mainstream.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is encouraging eligible Manitobans to get vaccinated as influenza, RSV and COVID-19 infections are expected to increase.