Tag Archives: Health

VANCOUVER - Canisters of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, sold under the guise of whip cream chargers are increasingly showing up at Metro Vancouver waste facilities, and they're causing dan...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government has wrapped up a fall legislature sitting featuring landmark legislation that raised questions on where political authority should end and the ru...

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general says the province needs a new framework for measuring and reporting the performance of its health-care system. Doug Wylie, in a new report Thursday, says the recom...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the begin...

TORONTO - Researchers say there's been a dramatic rise in the number of people going on medications to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Ontario, suggesting factors such as more time s...

QUBEC - The Quebec government announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement in principle with its family doctors, agreeing to delay and amend contentious legislation designed to impose a new rem...

HALIFAX - A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province. The report, published by the Centre for Migrant Wo...

VANCOUVER - The former chief coroner for British Columbia says the provincial government didn't seem influenced by evidence or expert advice on how to prevent overdoses after it ignored multiple recom...

Twenty Alberta legislature members with Premier Danielle Smith's 47-member United Conservative Party caucus are officially facing recall petitions from constituents. A recall campaign has also been ap...

ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended the licence of the province's top-billing doctor. As first reported by the news website allNewfoundlandLabrado...