Tag Archives: Health

WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly coronavirus outbreak, whose rapid spread and threat to the global economy rocked financial marke...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The tiny island nation of Bahrain suspended flights on Tuesday to the world's busiest airport for international travel in Dubai over fears about the spread of the new vir...

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with a year earlier, but the number of fatalities is about the same as when t...

VICTORIA - A seventh case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a man in his 40s who is a close contact of the sixth cas...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government promises to introduce legislation today aimed at making it easier for intolerably ill Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. The bill will scrap a ...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will table a bill today calling for a universal pharmacare plan. The party, which has been promising to table this legislation for some time, says its proposa...

TORONTO - Ontario's newest case of the novel coronavirus has now been confirmed as positive, though health officials say her illness is mild. The woman in her 20s recently returned from China and had ...

LONDON - Children up to the age of 12 will be banned from heading a soccer ball in practice sessions in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland as authorities look to address the potential long-term im...

TORONTO - Ontario health officials say there's a new presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Toronto. They say a woman arrived in Canada from China on Friday and went to a Toronto hospital w...

VANCOUVER - Canada's governor general has visited an overdose prevention site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after meeting with first responders on the front lines of substance-use issues fuell...