Tag Archives: Health

One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2020: There are 166,160 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 78,459 confirmed (including 5,878 deaths, 65,304 re...

TORONTO - A major Ontario youth hockey organization has suspended its activities for the rest of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Greater Toronto Hockey League says it's pausing all official...

Canada is running out of time to prevent a major resurgence of COVID-19, the country's chief public health officer said Saturday as its two most populous provinces continued to report some of their hi...

MONTREAL - Crowds of protesters marched through downtown Montreal on Saturday, calling for justice for Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who was subjected to insults as she lay dying in hospital. Ec...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:30 p.m. EDT on Oct. 3, 2020: There are 164,478 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 77,380 confirmed (including 5,867 deaths, 64,478 re...

OTTAWA - Facing a looming court-imposed deadline, the federal government will reintroduce Monday legislation to amend Canada's law on medical assistance in dying. The government has until Dec. 18 to a...

MONTREAL - The fate of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who died in a Quebec hospital after filming staff insulting her, is a tragic example of the systemic racism many Indigenous people face when ...

CALGARY - Lawyers for a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed five young people at a house party are appealing a decision to deny him some privileges.  A provincial mental health review board said...

OTTAWA - Seven months into the pandemic, medical experts have a better idea of how to treat COVID-19 and how to keep it out of high-risk settings which means there are far fewer people dying of the vi...