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Alberta tables bill to add citizenship mark, health-care numbers to driver's licences
EDMONTON - Alberta's government has tabled legislation to add health-care numbers and mandatory citizenship markers to driver's licences and identification cards. The government had announced its plan...
Nov 17, 2025
Saskatchewan signs first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care
REGINA - Saskatchewan's government has signed its first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says the 19 new contracts will help patients get medi...
Nov 17, 2025
Animal protein not linked to higher mortality risk
Eating foods containing animal-sourced protein is not linked to a higher risk of death and may even offer protective benefits against cancer-related mortality, according to new research findings. In t...
Nov 17, 2025 ID 293359065 © Konstantin Malkov Dreamstime.com
Sask. inks contracts with 19 nurse practitioners in effort to expand primary care access
The Government of Saskatchewan has signed contracts with 19 more nurse practitioners as it works to expand access to primary health-care services in the province. The provincial government said that n...
Nov 17, 2025 Three nurse practitioners at NPower+ Health in Regina signed contracts with the Saskatchewan Government to offer publicly funded primary care services to patients in Saskatchewan. L-R: Hanna Latina, Arnold Esguerra, Toni Tino, and Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill. (Abby Zieverink/980 CJME)
Canada may fall short of goal to eliminating cervical cancer by 2040, cancer society says
TORONTO - A Canadian Cancer Statistics report says the country may not reach its goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040. Data published by the Canadian Cancer Statistics Advisory Committee shows ...
Nov 17, 2025 A cervix self-screening kit is a part of the first self-screening cervical cancer plan in Canada, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Alberta premier says loss of measles elimination status concerning, urges vigilance
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Canada recently losing its measles elimination status is concerning, but her government might not have many options on the table to help get it back. Smith, at an u...
Nov 14, 2025
Fact File: No 'plan' to 'euthanize' 15 million Canadians with MAID
Podcast clips recently shared on social media claim that Health Canada plans to save money by "euthanizing" 15 million Canadians. The clips cite a journal article that presents a scenario in which mem...
Nov 14, 2025
'Time is brain': Toronto hospital paving way for remote robotic treatment of strokes
TORONTO - A team at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto has successfully completed 10 brain angiograms using a robot controlled remotely by a neurosurgeon, paving the way to eventually providing critica...
Nov 14, 2025 Neurosurgeon Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira, as shown in this handout photo provided by Unity Health Toronto, uses a computer at St. Joseph's Hospital in Toronto to remotely control a robot six kilometres away at St. Michael's Hospital manoeuvring a catheter through a patient's brain for a cerebral angiogram. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Unity Health Toronto
Health-care officials disappointed with measles re-emergence in Canada
On Monday, Canada lost its measles elimination status, which it had previously held since 1998. It's a development in Canada that has many health-care professionals disappointed. Read More: Moe says p...
Nov 14, 2025 A red blotchy measles rash, which develops on the face and spreads down the body about three to seven days after symptoms begin. (Health Canada website)
'Deep burial' for ostriches at B.C. landfill as CFIA completes cull and disposal work
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has completed its "active operations" at the British Columbia ostrich farm where professional marksmen were used to cull the flock following an outbreak of avian fl...
Nov 13, 2025
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