Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - A new Charter challenge that got underway Monday will test the constitutionality of a controversial Ontario law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes n...

On the day British Columbia Conservative Party Leader John Rustad unveiled a major election campaign promise to help renters and homeowners squeezed by high housing costs, a video surfaced showing him...

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that at a time when the world faces increasing instability, leaders have a choice: bury their heads in the sand or put their differences aside for the sak...

OTTAWA - Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide. International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the news at a Rotary International conference in Tor...

BLACKFALDS, Alta. - Alberta Health Services says an E. coli outbreak at a daycare in Blackfalds has ended. Several children and staff got sick in late August at an Aspen Lakes Discovery Center locatio...

Health Canada has authorized Novavax's updated COVID-19 vaccine that protects against currently circulating variants of the virus. The protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, has been reformulated to...

FREDERICTON - A quick look at some of the issues in the New Brunswick election campaign: HEALTH CARE Conservatives: introduce "incremental improvements" Liberals: open 30 community-care clinics Greens...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland urged a committee of senators Wednesday not to tweak the pharmacare bill he carefully negotiated with the NDP earlier this year. The bill would underpin a potenti...

Construction of an urgent care centre will soon begin in Saskatoon. Representatives from the provincial government and Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments signed the final development agreement and broke gr...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is expected to officially kick off a provincial election campaign Thursday morning with a visit to the lieutenant-governor. Opposition parties got a he...