Tag Archives: Health

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... U.S. big tech holds 85% of Canadian cloud market, report says ahead of AI strategy As Canada gears up for the ...

PELICAN NARROWS - RCMP are working to determine the motive for a shooting that left a woman dead and a man seriously injured in a remote community in northern Saskatchewan. The shooting happened Monda...

VANCOUVER - Health officials in British Columbia say invasive mosquitoes and a virus that can cause brain swelling in humans have been detected in the Sea-to-Sky region north of Vancouver, after an in...

Alberta is rolling out a new surgery funding model that ties money to patients, starting in a dozen public hospitals across the province. The government calls it patient-focused funding and says it be...

MONTREAL - An international student from the Democratic Republic of Congo says she was blocked from returning to Montreal because of Ebola-related travel restrictions - despite the fact she hasn't vis...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider. Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressi...

OTTAWA - Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has launched a project to fund community-based mental health services in Northern and Indigenous communities. The legacy project will be run with support from th...

MONTREAL - When Caroline Rivest broke her ankle a few years ago, a doctor prescribed her a powerful opioid for three months to help with the pain. She was hooked in no time. After her prescription ran...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says temporarily blocking entry for people coming from Ebola-affected countries is necessary to reduce the risk of importing the disease, despite the World...

The immigration department says more than 24,000 travel documents could be suspended by the government's measures to keep Ebola out of Canada. The government announced a 90-day suspension of a variety...