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B.C. provides $20M to expand travel, accommodation funding for cancer patients
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is providing $20 million over two years to support travel and lodging for cancer patients in the province. A statement from the Ministry of Health says the f...
Aug 07, 2024
CFIA: Listeria contamination of plant milks in Ontario facility
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recent Listeria contamination of several plant-based milks occurred in a Pickering, Ont., factory. It says the contamination happened on a "dedicated produ...
Aug 07, 2024 It says the contamination happened on a “dedicated production line” at Joriki, which is a third-party beverage packaging facility used by plant-milk manufacturer Danone Canada. (The Canadian Press)
Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands
OTTAWA - More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal gov...
Aug 07, 2024
US abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds
Abortion was slightly more common across the U.S. in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a...
Aug 07, 2024
Wildfire smoke blankets Saskatoon, central Saskatchewan
The smoke that blanketed Saskatoon and parts of central Saskatchewan on Wednesday morning is thanks to the wildfires burning to the north. Early on Wednesday morning, the air quality health index in t...
Aug 07, 2024 Smoke blanketed Saskatoon early Wednesday morning because of forest fires in the north. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
Prime minister speaks to health workers, members of Black community in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made brief stops in Winnipeg on Tuesday to meet with members of the Black community and health-care workers. Trudeau spoke to several dozen people at a morning...
Aug 06, 2024
Saskatchewan latest province to restrict cellphone use in school classrooms
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is following the lead of other provinces in announcing that students won't be allowed to use cellphones in class in the upcoming school year, a move critics call a...
Aug 06, 2024
Hospital in Whitby, Ont., to be built and operational in 10 years, province says
OSHAWA, Ont. - A new hospital in Whitby, Ont., will be built and operational within 10 years, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Thursday. The province has given Lakeridge Health $12 million in capital...
Aug 01, 2024
Conservatives launch attack ads on NDP, calling leader 'Sellout Singh'
OTTAWA - The Conservative party released two new ads this week attacking NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a "sellout," blaming him for a national rise in crime, housing prices and costly living. The ads, w...
Jul 31, 2024
'Incredibly disappointing': Ontario halts wastewater testing for COVID, other viruses
Ontario is officially ending its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program as of Wednesday in a move some public health experts say is shortsighted. Dr. Fahad Razak, the former scientific director of t...
Jul 31, 2024
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