Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a federal law that forbids companies to make people undergo genetic testing before buying insurance or other services. The Genetic ...

TORONTO - Questions over whether thousands of international students could be deported from the U.S. under a new Trump administration policy are causing consternation among sc...

VICTORIA - A former judge investigating allegations of racism towards Indigenous people in British Columbia's health-care system is calling on patients, families, doctors and nurses to come forward wi...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is updating a legal definition of "parent" to make it easier for some parents to pass their Canadian citizenship onto their children. Previously, children born to Canad...

OTTAWA - Canada's police chiefs are calling for decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs as the best way to battle substance abuse and addiction. The Canadian Associati...

TORONTO - Questions over whether thousands of international students could be deported from the U.S. under a new Trump administration policy are causing consternation among sc...

OTTAWA - Canada is ill-prepared for a second wave of COVID-19, says a Senate committee, calling on the federal Liberals to deliver a plan by Labour Day to help people and communities hit har...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:18 p.m. on July 9, 2020: There are 106,805 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 56,216 confirmed (including 5,609 deaths, 25,616 resolv...

An emergency dispatcher picks up a call from a mother who says her adult son is angry and breaking things at home, but he may not react well to police officers. In most cities, armed officers would be...

Determined to reopen America's schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don't bring their students back in the fa...