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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
Sask. Health Authority to ditch problem-plagued AIMS scheduling system
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is returning to its previous scheduling system after a number of issues were identified with the AIMS system. The payroll and scheduling components of the Administrat...
Oct 30, 2025 Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill acknowledged that AIMS caused “unacceptable” errors around scheduling. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Wait for core Ontario autism services tops 5 years: advocates
TORONTO - When Ashley Ferreira's five-year-old son was diagnosed with autism in 2020 she never imagined that a five-year wait lay ahead for him to get access to government-funded core therapies. "I th...
Oct 30, 2025
Five things to know about the fight between Quebec doctors and the government
MONTREAL - Doctors in Quebec are up in arms over a recent provincial law that imposes a new payment system on physicians and prohibits them from using pressure tactics to oppose the policy. Meanwhile,...
Oct 29, 2025
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