Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - A federal judge has locked in a compensation program for Canadians born with birth defects because of the drug thalidomide. Thalidomide was approved in Canada to treat morning sickness in pre...

TORONTO - Peer pressure and public messaging will influence Canadians' ability and willingness to maintain safe behaviours as restrictions around COVID-19 begin to loosen, some experts say a...

WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...

OTTAWA - First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders are raising concern about a growing number of outbreaks of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities and say it's getting harder to find the money an...

REGINA - Questions about access to supplies are emerging as health officials and community leaders work to contain spread of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan's far north. The region has seen a spike in c...

OTTAWA - Canada's development minister says the government is pushing international actors to provide debt relief in Africa and other less-developed regions to help fight threats of hunger, econo...

WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8 p.m. B.C.'s provincial health officer and health minister say the best thing people can do for their mother this Mother...

OTTAWA - The federal government will extend its emergency wage-subsidy program beyond its early-June endpoint as new job figures showed historic losses since COVID-19 forced an economic...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far:   ...