Tag Archives: Health

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...

TORONTO - A Canadian who recently arrived in Canada after being aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan has tested negative for the illness while under quarantine in Cornwall, Ont. The Publ...

OTTAWA - Canadian medical experts say the country's already overstretched emergency rooms would find it difficult to cope if a true outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were to take hold in...

OTTAWA - Veterans ombudsman Craig Dalton is calling for nationwide consultations on a vision and plan for supporting former service members and their families. Dalton says a great deal has b...

Saskatoon Police are looking to a Scottish city for ideas and direction on how to lower the overall crime rate. According to the "Glasgow Model of Community Safety," presented Thursday at the Board of...

NOVI SANZHARY, Ukraine - A Ukrainian village where residents clashed with riot police and threw rocks at buses while protesting the local quarantine of people evacuated from China is under control but...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of Canadians and their family members are to be released from quarantine today after two weeks in isolation at an Ontario Canadian Forces base. They'll get to leave their quarters at...

VANCOUVER - Another case of the coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a woman in her 30s has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after retur...