Tag Archives: Health

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is evacuating patients from a health facility in the province's Far North because of persistent water shortages in a community. The Health Department says two patients...

TORONTO - Ontario is increasing funding for its autism program to $779 million this year, the government announced in this week's budget, but advocates say it's not yet clear exactly where that money ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue. At the big hospitals in Halifax, tensions are growing as unautho...

EDMONTON - The spring sitting of Alberta's legislature began under the cloud of a health-care contract corruption scandal and ended with a firestorm of renewed separatist angst. The sitting, which wra...

MONTREAL - Sylvie Brosseau said she and her partner Normand Meunier dreamed of buying an adapted camper where, despite his quadriplegia, they could indulge their shared love of the outdoors, and spend...

VANCOUVER - Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, after he suffered devastating injuries in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver last month. On Monday...

MONTREAL - The death of an unhoused Innu man whose body was found inside a portable toilet in Montreal was avoidable, a Quebec coroner said Thursday, highlighting the need for additional resources to ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment's rep...

Operators of a British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled said Wednesday that dozens of supporters have converged on the scene, as the federal agency in charge of the opera...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California is facing a $12 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help close by freezing enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants living in Ca...