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Sask. Health Authority to ditch problem-plagued AIMS scheduling system
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...
Oct 30, 2025 Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill acknowledged that AIMS caused “unacceptable” errors around scheduling. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Wait for core Ontario autism services tops 5 years: advocates
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...
Oct 30, 2025
Five things to know about the fight between Quebec doctors and the government
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,...
Oct 29, 2025
'Call 1-800-Doug-Ford': Ontario, N.B. courting Quebec doctors unhappy with pay law
MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...
Oct 29, 2025
These doctors helped eliminate measles in '98. Here's how they did it
TORONTO - Dr. Arlene King got measles more than 60 years ago, but she still remembers feeling so weak that getting her shoes on was a challenge. It didn't take long for King, who was in Grade 1 at the...
Oct 29, 2025
1,400 annual deaths linked to wildfire smoke in Canada: climate and health report
A new global health report suggests that every year from 2020 to 2024 about 1,400 deaths in Canada were associated with wildfire smoke pollution as climate change takes an increasing toll on the count...
Oct 28, 2025
Quebec medical specialists announce legal challenge of new compensation law
QUBEC - Medical specialists in Quebec are planning a legal challenge to a recent law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians, which they say violates individual freedoms. The bill, whi...
Oct 28, 2025
Canadian Space Agency unveils four new studies for International Space Station
MONTREAL - Four Canadian-designed studies are set to be conducted aboard the International Space Station, soon to be hosting Albertan astronaut Joshua Kutryk. The studies announced Tuesday during a Ca...
Oct 28, 2025
Health Canada authorizes long-awaited drug to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease
TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Lecanemab is the first medication approved in Canada that targets the buildup of amyloid plaque in t...
Oct 27, 2025
Ontario to boost home care funding by $1 billion
TORONTO - Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy has announced that as part of the upcoming fall economic statement, the province will be increasing home care funding by $1 billion over three yea...
Oct 27, 2025
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