Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - The New Democrats and Liberals are at odds over the rollout of the new federal dental plan, after the government announced it wouldn't fully expand eligibility until 2025 - contrary to the pa...

The $898-million contract to design and build a new acute care tower at Prince Albert's Victoria Hospital is going to PCL Construction Management Ltd. The agreement includes design and construction of...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is legislating a three-year delay to its controversial plan to expand eligibility for assisted dying to include those whose sole underlying condition is a mental illnes...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Tearfully relaying scenes of blood, chaos and panic, family members of the victims of Maine's deadliest shooting described their unfathomable losses on Thursday as they implored ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has posted a video to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announcing several new policies and guidelines dealing with gender and sexuality. Here is a l...

Premier Danielle Smith has announced a raft of changes affecting transgender Albertans, including requiring parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at sch...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Abortion rights supporters mounted another push Wednesday to restore abortion access in Kentucky, but the Democratic lawmaker sponsoring the legislation acknowledged the odds are...

OTTAWA - With just months to go before patients can start making appointments, dentists, hygienists and other dental-care providers are still waiting for crucial details about how the federal governme...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside says ending the province's three-year drug decriminalization project won't save "a single life," as the experimen...

STRATFORD, ONTARIO - Ontario is extending a program that helps long-term care homes provide clinical placements for nursing and personal support worker students. The government says the program has al...