Murray Wood: When fishing trips really are about fishing
Murray Wood says his annual "Gentlemen's Retreat" is actually becoming, well... not quite gentlemanly, but cer...
Tag Archives: Health
Saskatchewan removes provisions to expand scope of practice for nurses
Saskatchewan is updating its clinical policies to remove a number of provisions that limited the scope of practice for nurses in the province. According to the Ministry of Health, the provincial gover...
May 15, 2026 Derek Miller, COO for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, said the changes will remove barriers that prevented nurses from fully performing certain activities that fall within their legislated scope. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Ontario now testing 10 asymptomatic people for hantavirus; low-risk cases to stop isolating if negative
Ontario's ministry of health says it is now testing 10 asymptomatic people with connections to a hantavirus-stricken cruise, a shift from government remarks made earlier this week. The province says t...
May 15, 2026 A Spanish passenger is sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo)
Ontario now testing asymptomatic people for hantavirus; low-risk cases to stop isolating if negative
TORONTO - Ontario's ministry of health said it is now testing asymptomatic people with connections to a hantavirus-stricken cruise, a shift from government remarks made earlier this week, as health of...
May 15, 2026
Experts call for evenly applied forensic nursing services across B.C.
A researcher on intimate partner violence is calling for British Columbia to increase funding for forensic nurses, saying there is a service gap for survivors in most regions. The comments by Amanda M...
May 15, 2026
Public health agency says World Cup poses high risk of measles spread
OTTAWA - There is a high risk of measles transmission within Canada during the FIFA World Cup, an analysis by the Public Health Agency of Canada warned Thursday. The federal agency completed its infec...
May 14, 2026
Ontario's more restrictive transparency law nixes request for health minister records
TORONTO - Ontario's new and more restrictive freedom-of-information laws have quashed another request, this time for documents that may have given a glimpse into potential hospital cuts. More than 70 ...
May 14, 2026
Recall petition to be issued against OneBC MLA Dallas Brodie, who says it's fine
VICTORIA - The agency overseeing British Columbia elections says it will issue a recall petition against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie -- and she says she's fine with that. Elections BC said it would...
May 14, 2026
Fact File: Misleading claims about hantavirus shared online amid cruise ship outbreak
As Canadians connected to an outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship isolate in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, rumours and misinformation about the virus are spreading online. Her...
May 14, 2026
26 'low-risk' air passengers being contacted about hantavirus: Canada's top doctor
Canada's chief medical officer of health says 26 people across the country are being contacted by public health authorities to monitor for hantavirus symptoms, though they are deemed "low risk." Dr. J...
May 14, 2026 Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, provides an updates about the Andes Hantavirus and actions taken by the Government of Canada during a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Thursday, May 14, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Top doctor explains why number of 'low risk' hantavirus contacts in Canada has grown to 26
TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer says the country is taking a "precautionary approach" in monitoring people who may have had indirect contact with passengers who were on the hantavirus-s...
May 14, 2026
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Sport is a collective experience that brings us together
Whatever your sport is, Sarah Mills says it is an experience fans get to have together. The highs, the lows and - whethe...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, June 16
8:30 - The independent review of Saskatchewan's 2025 wildfire response found the SPSA was not fully prepared for a wildf...
