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Alberta company at the centre of allegations on health contracts urges audit release
EDMONTON - An Alberta company swept up in allegations of government corruption says it's being further harmed by the suppression of a report it believes could clear the name of its CEO. Medical supply...
Jun 26, 2025
Federal Court approves Indian Hospitals class-action settlement
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has approved a multi-billion-dollar class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals' following out-of-court negotiations between Ott...
Jun 26, 2025
Bodies of three people missing after Airmedic helicopter crash in Quebec recovered
MONTRAL - The search for three people who were unaccounted for after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec's North Shore came to an end late Wednesday night after police divers located thei...
Jun 26, 2025 The Surete du Quebec, or Quebec Provincial Police patch at a news conference, in Quebec City on February 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Nova Scotia government signs agreements with universities to get doctors from Lebanon
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is making good use of its relationship with Halifax's wildly successful Lebanese community, announcing on Wednesday that it had secured agreements with two univers...
Jun 25, 2025
National data shows overdose deaths dropped in 2024 but still higher than pre-pandemic
TORONTO - National health data shows overdose deaths in Canada dropped in 2024 but the toll still remained much higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint statement from the country's ch...
Jun 25, 2025 Celeta Cook, First Nations Health Authority Executive Director of Public Health Response wears a purple ribbon for overdose awareness during a news conference in North Vancouver, on Monday, April 14, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Health agency says 72 sickened with salmonella after eating recalled salami
TORONTO - Seventy-two people have fallen ill after eating salami recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. The Public Health Agency of Canada released an updated notice on an outbreak of salm...
Jun 25, 2025
Alberta's auditor general granted extra $1M for health procurement probe
EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general has been granted his request for nearly $1 million in extra funding to continue digging into allegations of corruption in private health-care contracts. Auditor ge...
Jun 24, 2025
Control zones set up in Fraser Valley, B.C., after Newcastle disease detected
CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Can...
Jun 20, 2025
Ottawa shows no signs of limiting MAID after UN panel calls for reversal
Ottawa is giving no sign that it intends to amend existing legislation on medical assistance in dying - something a UN committee called for earlier this spring. The federal minister responsible for di...
Jun 19, 2025 Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 9, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Ottawa shows no signs of limiting MAID after UN panel calls for reversal
OTTAWA - Ottawa is giving no sign that it intends to amend existing legislation on medical assistance in dying - something a UN committee called for earlier this spring. The federal minister responsib...
Jun 19, 2025
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