Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - Health officials in Ontario are reporting that the number of new measles cases are down to the single digits for the first time since January. That's based on weekly data release by Public H...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it expects to report more salmonella cases linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products in the coming months, adding to th...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it's dealing with a growing number of immigration security screening requests - and immigration lawyers say their clients are coping with long ...

HALIFAX - Sandra Walsh was struggling to breathe in her apartment when temperatures across Nova Scotia soared in July, but the woman on social assistance says her pleas for a government-funded air con...

By Susan McNeil A career in emergency care peaked early for a new dispatcher in Prince Albert. Emma MacDonald, age 19, was on her second shift alone on July 30 when she helped a woman deliver a baby o...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal says lawsuits launched by mink farmers over a pandemic-era ban on their farms have "no reasonable prospect of success," dismissing their bid for damages against th...

Nine people have been hospitalized, and dozens of salmonella cases have been reported after an outbreak of infections linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products. Recall w...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global...

A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, more than a decade after the ...

OTTAWA - Some premiers say they want to have more local control over the immigration system - but experts say what the system really needs is a national conversation on immigration reform that shores ...