Cael Perry News Today

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

Long waits for elective surgery in Canada's health-care system left one teenage boy in Peachland, B.C., feeling like “the Hunchback of Notre Dame,” he said, as he waited nearly two years for surgery to treat his scoliosis. It’s a crisis that has some doctors pushing for private care, while others urge Canadians to keep their faith in the public system.

In today's Morning Brief, a controversial reserve fund that Hockey Canada publicly vowed it would stop using to settle sexual assault allegations is significantly depleted now after the organization transferred millions of dollars to another account, a new interim report says.