Tag Archives: Health

BOSTON (AP) - Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency...

The Supreme Court of Canada is set to issue a decision next week on whether to hear a last-ditch appeal against an ordered cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm. A list of leave applications th...

TORONTO - A new Health Canada report says people surveyed about medical assistance in dying "generally" support allowing patients who will lose their decision-making capacity to give advance consent. ...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the definition of a "public interest" event that would allow her department to pause or revoke immigration applications is "intentionally not defined" in n...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is committing to daily updates on which health facilities and services are being temporarily closed. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill told the chamber Thursday the ...

OTTAWA - Sen. Kim Pate has been fighting against prisons' use of solitary confinement since 2018, when the federal government committed to curbing the practice. She told The Canadian Press the situati...

QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault insists he will not back down on controversial changes to how the province's physicians are paid, despite a court challenge by a doctors' union and the resignati...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is returning to its previous scheduling system after a number of issues were identified with the AIMS system. The payroll and scheduling components of the Administrat...

TORONTO - When Ashley Ferreira's five-year-old son was diagnosed with autism in 2020 she never imagined that a five-year wait lay ahead for him to get access to government-funded core therapies. "I th...

MONTREAL - Doctors in Quebec are up in arms over a recent provincial law that imposes a new payment system on physicians and prohibits them from using pressure tactics to oppose the policy. Meanwhile,...