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Highlights from Nova Scotia's 2024-25 provincial budget
HALIFAX - Highlights of the Nova Scotia government's provincial budget presented Thursday: - The province is bringing in a $16.5-billion budget, with a projected deficit of $467.4 million. --- - Healt...
Feb 29, 2024
Ontario invests $1.6 billion for new buildings at Toronto mental health hospital
TORONTO - Ontario is investing $1.6 billion for two new buildings at a mental health hospital in Toronto. The province says the money will go toward the design and construction of the buildings at the...
Feb 29, 2024
Liberals take first step toward pharmacare with bill for birth control, diabetes meds
OTTAWA - The governing Liberals took their first major step toward national pharmacare Thursday as the health minister tabled a bill that paves the way for a universal drug program and secures NDP sup...
Feb 29, 2024
Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, objecting to a vote on the issue Wednesday even after widespread backlash to a recent...
Feb 28, 2024
West Virginia House OKs bill doctors say would eliminate care for most at-risk transgender youth
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates passed a bill on Wednesday that doctors treating transgender youth in the state say would prevent the prescription of ...
Feb 28, 2024
Public Health Ontario staff awarded retroactive pay as Bill 124 compensation
TORONTO - Employees of Public Health Ontario labs are set to receive an additional 5.25 per cent in pay increases to compensate for a provincial wage restraint law that was found unconstitutional and ...
Feb 28, 2024
Quebec launches helpline, looks for other ways to stop politicians from quitting
RIVIRE-DU-LOUP, Que. - The Quebec government says it is not ruling out punitive measures for people who harass elected officials, as the province strives to stop an exodus of politicians from municipa...
Feb 28, 2024
Nova Scotia to spend $7.2 million on diabetes care, start funding glucose monitoring
HALIFAX - Nova Scotians with diabetes will soon have access to government funding for glucose monitoring and greater access to the province's insulin pump program. Premier Tim Houston announced Wednes...
Feb 28, 2024
SARM says rural health care in 'crisis,' calls for return of nursing program
Rural parts of Saskatchewan are seeing a health-care crisis, with serious gaps in their systems and staff shortages prevalent throughout the province. That's the message from the Saskatchewan Associat...
Feb 28, 2024 According to SARM, rural areas of Saskatchewan are seeing a health-care 'crisis.' (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Biden 'continues to be fit for duty,' his doctor says, after president undergoes annual physical
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - President Joe Biden "continues to be fit for duty," his doctor wrote Wednesday after conducting an annual physical that is being closely watched as the 81-year-old seeks reelectio...
Feb 28, 2024
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