Tag Archives: Health

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider. Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressi...

OTTAWA - Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has launched a project to fund community-based mental health services in Northern and Indigenous communities. The legacy project will be run with support from th...

MONTREAL - When Caroline Rivest broke her ankle a few years ago, a doctor prescribed her a powerful opioid for three months to help with the pain. She was hooked in no time. After her prescription ran...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says temporarily blocking entry for people coming from Ebola-affected countries is necessary to reduce the risk of importing the disease, despite the World...

The immigration department says more than 24,000 travel documents could be suspended by the government's measures to keep Ebola out of Canada. The government announced a 90-day suspension of a variety...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government plans to greatly reduce the number of locations where flavoured vaping products can be sold, but one group says the idea does not go far enough and lags behind effor...

TORONTO - The Canadian government is imposing a mandatory 21-day self-isolation period for travellers from Ebola-affected regions, while immigration authorities are temporarily suspending decisions on...

Former Saskatoon police chief Clive Weighill is leading an independent review of security and safety at Saskatchewan's health-care facilities. Weighill, who also previously served as Saskatchewan's ch...

OTTAWA - Ninety disability advocacy and mental health organizations have signed an open letter urging the federal Liberals to permanently exclude people with mental illness from eligibility for medica...

A Saskatchewan family is demanding answers and changes after the death of a 24-year-old woman, which they say happened after she was diagnosed with a dangerous condition and waited hours to receive ca...