Tag Archives: Health

REGINA - The family of a young man who took his own life after going to a hospital twice in one day during a mental-health crisis is suing the Saskatchewan Health Authority and the provincial governme...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no intention of trying to assert federal jurisdiction over long-term care facilities but still believes there is a role for Ottawa to play in fixing ...

WINNIPEG - A First Nations elder says her symptoms were initially ignored and she was questioned about alcohol use during a stay at a Winnipeg hospital.Sadie North, 72, said she was appalled at some o...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed confidence that provinces will join efforts to fight racism in the health-care system, adding he does not want to jump to any conclusions about how the...

YELLOWKNIFE - The deputy chief public health officer for the Northwest Territories is asking Yellowknife residents who visited two locations on specific days to isolate for two weeks because of a risk...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):  6:49 p.m. The Tim Hortons restaurant in Merritt, B.C., is the site of the latest community COVID-19 outbreak. The informat...

Several provinces are looking to ramp up COVID-19 restrictions as new hotspots crop up across the map, pushing Canada's caseload closer to the 200,000 mark. Canada's chief public health officer says t...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:54 p.m. EDT on Oct. 16, 2020: There are 194,109 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 91,018 confirmed (including 6,018 deaths, 76,512 r...

OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to use its financial leverage over the health system to fight anti-Indigenous racism in health care, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says. He says tha...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:25 p.m. B.C. has recorded its first confirmed case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a child after antibody testing show...