Tag Archives: Health

OTTAWA - How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain "a lack of progress" on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alte...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Patricia Hajdu says Canadians returning home from Wuhan will need physical and mental support once they arrive at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, where they will spend...

TORONTO - Ontario's chief medical officer of health says the number of people under investigation in the province for the novel coronavirus seems to be dropping. Dr. David Williams says it has been ab...

BEIJING - China opened a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into tumbling financial markets and further restricted people's movement in sweeping new steps Monday to contain a rapidly spreadin...

OTTAWA - The federal government will provide an update about Canada's response to the novel coronavirus today as a plane prepares to evacuate hundreds of Canadians from the locked-down Chinese city of...

TORONTO - Four cases of the new coronavirus have now been confirmed in Canada - three in Ontario and one in British Columbia. Here is a timeline of Canadian cases. Jan. 25, 2020:  A man...

OTTAWA - The number of Canadians who want to flee the Chinese province afflicted with the novel coronavirus has climbed to 325. Global Affairs Canada is providing the update as the world has its ...

AIRDRIE, Alta. - A hockey player paralyzed in a bus crash has been working hard since undergoing spinal surgery in Thailand late last year and it's getting him closer to ...

WHITEHORSE - A Yukon coroner's jury has determined that an Indigenous woman's death during a medevac flight to Whitehorse was accidental. The inquest heard over nine days of witness and expert te...

OTTAWA - The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to voice "very serious concern" about proposed changes to medical assistance in dying...