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Canada needs to invest in public health to regain measles elimination status
by Nicole Ireland and Hannah Alberga TORONTO - Infectious disease experts say Canada's loss of measles elimination status shows how badly investment is needed in public health, rebuilding vaccine conf...
Nov 11, 2025 A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is pictured at the Taber Community Health Centre in Taber, Alta., Monday, July 28, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh)
Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals
OTTAWA - The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in the coming years, one economist says - and the Ontario government is calling for that...
Nov 11, 2025
Manitoba municipalities renew calls for province to review mental health legislation
WINNIPEG - Some municipalities in Manitoba are renewing calls for the province to make legislative changes to reduce the role police play in responding to crises as rural and northern communities deal...
Nov 11, 2025
New website raises awareness about available cancer clinical trials
Canadians now have access to a public listing of active cancer clinical trials across the country, a resource that's long existed in the United States and Europe. The Canadian Cancer Society announced...
Nov 10, 2025
High-risk offender status is unconstitutional in fatal Quebec daycare crash: lawyers
MONTREAL - Lawyers for a Quebec man who killed two children and injured six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 say it would be unconstitutional for a judge to declare...
Nov 10, 2025
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country has officially lost its measles elimination status, which it had held since 1998. The federal agency says the Pan American Health Organization revok...
Nov 10, 2025 Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., Thursday, May 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
Canada loses measles elimination status, causing entire region to lose designation
TORONTO - Canada has officially lost the measles elimination status it had held since 1998, causing the entire region of the Americas to also lose the designation. The status is granted and revoked by...
Nov 10, 2025
Doctors gather to protest physician payment bill at Bell Centre
MONTREAL - More than 10,000 demonstrators descended on Montreal's Bell Centre on Sunday to demand the suspension of a new law that changes how doctors in the province are paid. Organized by a quartet ...
Nov 09, 2025
B.C. ostrich farm is 'ground zero for change' as family reels from shooting cull
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - With the flock of several hundred ostriches on the British Columbia farm co-owned by her mother shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,...
Nov 08, 2025
'Couldn't stomach it': Ostriches loaded in bins after shooting cull stuns protesters
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - It had taken more than 10 months before the first gunshots marked the beginning of a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm that was ordered duri...
Nov 07, 2025
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