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Wild turkey breaks into Quebec long-term care home, a sign of 'exploding' population
MONTREAL - A break-in by a wild turkey at a long-term care home south of Quebec City over the weekend is a sign that the range and population of the birds are expanding in Quebec, bringing them closer...
Apr 15, 2024
Midwives granted new powers under updated Sask. regulations
Midwives in Saskatchewan will have new powers to prescribe more drugs and order X-rays and other tests under updated provincial regulations. According to the Ministry of Health, the government is maki...
Apr 15, 2024 The new rules allow midwives to prescribe more drugs and order more tests. (650 CKOM file photo)
Sharp rise in OD deaths demands better policies for those in their 20s, 30s: study
Opioid-related deaths doubled in Canada between 2019 and the end of 2021, with Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta experiencing a dramatic jump, mostly among men in their 20s and 30s, says a new study ...
Apr 14, 2024
Eight years since B.C. declared public health emergency, toxic drug crisis rages on
VANCOUVER - In the dozen years she's worked with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, executive director Brittany Graham has lost count of the people she's seen succumb to British Columbia's toxi...
Apr 14, 2024
Overdoses prompts B.C. First Nation to declare state of emergency
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A spike in overdose deaths in the six British Columbia nations that make up the Tsilhqot'in National Government has prompted the chiefs to declare a local state of emergency. The...
Apr 12, 2024
Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors and 2 anti-abortion bills
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas' governor on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a "vague" bill...
Apr 12, 2024
Maine lawmakers approve shield law for providers of abortion and gender-affirming care
The Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature gave final approval Friday to a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought in othe...
Apr 12, 2024
Arizona just revived an 1864 law criminalizing abortion. Here's what's happening in other states
Developments this week in Arizona underscored something that was already apparent about the 2024 elections in the United States: Abortion is going to loom large as an issue in state and federal electi...
Apr 12, 2024
Saskatoon losing sole child allergist to Alberta
The only child allergist in Saskatchewan who was seeing children under 12 and taking referrals is leaving the province at the end of the month. Dr. Ana-Maria Bosonea returned to work just seven months...
Apr 12, 2024 Dr. Ana-Maria Bosonea, Saskatoon's only pediatric allergist, is worried about the gap in service left behind when she leaves the province. (Ana-Maria Bosonea/Submitted)
'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death
DENVER (AP) - On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death. She'll probably miss his high school graduation. Death doesn't fright...
Apr 11, 2024
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