Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - The federal government's new ArriveCAN travel app is inaccessible to some Canadians with disabilities, raising questions of fair treatment and practical border-crossing concerns. Robert Fento...

MONTREAL - Business owners say they are happy Quebec's vaccine-passport system will allow them to operate during potential COVID-19 outbreaks, but they worry the health order will become burdensome an...

OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she is concerned that vaccination rates among younger Canadians aren't high enough as the rate of first-dose shots is slowing. "Now that the v...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampede is back and kicked off Friday morning with the usual array of floats, bands, horses and dignitaries. But the first parade since the COVID-19 pandemic was missing one mai...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:55 p.m. Yukon's top doctor is reporting six new cases of COVID-19 in the territory. Dr. Brendan Hanley says the new cases all ...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis is walking, working and has celebrated Mass at a Rome hospital where he also will deliver his Sunday weekly blessing while recovering from intestinal surgery, the Vatican said...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy nearly recovered the jobs lost during third wave lockdowns as restrictions rolled back and businesses expanded their payrolls faster than expected in June. Statistics Can...

CALGARY - The rides are up, the stuffed animals are displayed at the games tables and concession booths are loaded with supplies. Forced by the pandemic to cancel last year for the first time in its h...

Annalise Mathers doesn't remember the fall that caused her concussion on a ski mountain four months ago, but she can recall the disorienting feelings that followed. The 28-year-old from Toronto was cu...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says extending a pandemic measure designed to avoid layoffs at companies will cost the federal treasury almost $600 million over three years. Most of the extr...