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As provinces set to get smoking lawsuit cash, advocates seek more mitigation efforts
MONTREAL - Anti-smoking advocates urged the provinces and territories to use money from a historic tobacco settlement on public health programs as the provinces are set to receive initial amounts star...
Aug 27, 2025
U.S. billionaire tells why he's helping fund court fight to stop B.C. ostrich cull
A New York billionaire who is an avid supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump says he is helping fund the legal battle by a British Columbia ostrich farm against an order to cull their flock of about...
Aug 27, 2025 Businessman John Catsimatidis attends the 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in New York. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ted Shaffrey
Canadian Red Cross helps rebuild Ukrainian children's hospital after rocket attack
KYIV - 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 ...
Aug 27, 2025 Robert Laprade, country representative for Canadian Red Cross in Ukraine, observes the continuing construction at Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. The Canadian Red Cross is helping fund the rebuilding of the hospital after it was hit by a rocket on July 8, 2024. The facility is scheduled to reopen this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Workout substances can be harmful to some adolescents, survey of pediatricians says
TORONTO - 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 p...
Aug 27, 2025 A supplement is displayed at a store in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
'Just shoot me': Calgarian fighting in Ukraine in painful recovery after drone attack
KYIV - A 23-year-old Calgary man who has been fighting for Ukraine faces a painful recovery after receiving burns to nearly 30 per cent of his body in a Russian drone strike on Canada Day. Mac Hughes ...
Aug 26, 2025 Mac Hughes, a Canadian who was injured by a Russian drone attack while fighting for Ukraine, is pictured in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Dr. Oz says B.C. ostriches may have valuable avian flu secrets and should be saved
Celebrity doctor-turned-U.S. health official Mehmet Oz says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's order to cull a herd of ostriches in B.C. over bird flu concerns would amount to a "slaughter" based o...
Aug 25, 2025
Premier Danielle Smith defends new COVID shot administration fee during radio show
EDMONTON - Alberta's wasteful purchase of children's pain and fever medicine three years ago helped inform the province's decision to charge some people $100 for a COVID-19 vaccine shot this fall, Pre...
Aug 23, 2025
Settlement reached in national class-action lawsuit over drug Rexulti: law firm
MONTREAL - Lawyers involved in a class-action lawsuit over the drug Rexulti say a $4.75 million settlement has been reached on behalf of patients and the estates and families of those who were prescri...
Aug 23, 2025
Health Canada approves updated COVID-19 vaccines for fall
TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use this respiratory virus season. Moderna says it will manufacture vaccine doses for the Can...
Aug 23, 2025 A person gets the COVID-19 vaccine. (CANADIAN PRESS FILES/Ryan Remiorz)
Advocates against HIV criminalization decry Carney silence on reform Trudeau promised
OTTAWA - HIV activists say there is mounting frustration in communities affected by the virus, amid near-silence from the federal government nearly 10 years after the Liberals pledged to reform laws s...
Aug 23, 2025
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