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Prescription painkillers shortage in Canada expected to continue into new year
TORONTO - Pharmacists say a shortage of medications that contain oxycodone is expected to continue into the new year, while supply of another type of painkiller has increased since a nationwide disrup...
Nov 03, 2025 Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen are shown in this June 20, 2012 photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
Election day in the Yukon: Vote includes non-binding electoral reform question
WHITEHORSE - Yukon residents go to the polls today in a territorial election where voters are also being asked for their say on possible electoral reform. The Yukon Liberals went into the race as a mi...
Nov 03, 2025 Voters and poll workers are shown at a Whitehorse polling station during the Yukon election on Monday April 12, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Kelly
Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown
BOSTON (AP) - Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must continue to pay for SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using emergenc...
Oct 31, 2025
Ostrich farm rallies support as court says it will decide next week if it hears case
Canada's highest court says it will rule next Thursday whether to tackle a bitter dispute between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and a British Columbia ostrich farm over the ordered destruction o...
Oct 31, 2025
Quebec order of physicians urges government to suspend controversial doctor-pay law
MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians has called for an immediate suspension of a provincial law that ties doctors' pay to performance targets and threatens punitive damages over action...
Oct 31, 2025
People 'generally' support advance MAID requests before decision-making capacity lost: report
TORONTO - A new Health Canada report says people surveyed about medical assistance in dying "generally" support allowing patients who will lose their decision-making capacity to give advance consent. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Trigger for new immigration powers 'intentionally not defined' in border bill: Diab
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the definition of a "public interest" event that would allow her department to pause or revoke immigration applications is "intentionally not defined" in n...
Oct 30, 2025
Saskatchewan changing notifications of hospital closures amid growing frustration
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is committing to daily updates on which health facilities and services are being temporarily closed. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill told the chamber Thursday the ...
Oct 30, 2025
Senator tries again to put limits on prisons' use of solitary confinement
OTTAWA - Sen. Kim Pate has been fighting against prisons' use of solitary confinement since 2018, when the federal government committed to curbing the practice. She told The Canadian Press the situati...
Oct 30, 2025
Legault stands firm on doctor payment reform, despite minister's resignation
QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault insists he will not back down on controversial changes to how the province's physicians are paid, despite a court challenge by a doctors' union and the resignati...
Oct 30, 2025
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