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Nurses, midwives can help treat depression during pregnancy and new motherhood: study
TORONTO - Nurses, midwives and doulas can treat depression and anxiety symptoms experienced during pregnancy and after delivery, a new study says. The clinical trial, published Monday in the journal N...
Mar 03, 2025
Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life
Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near the...
Mar 02, 2025
Province spent more promoting cost-savings than advertising vaccines, documents show
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has spent or budgeted more than $340,000 for advertising campaigns promoting its fuel tax and electricity savings - more than it spent last year on ads to persuade p...
Mar 02, 2025
Alberta to announce third-party reviewer to probe health contracts next week: Smith
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says an external reviewer is to be announced next week, as her government continues to face questions surrounding allegations of corruption in health-care con...
Feb 28, 2025
N.S. Tories criticized for removing online data about people seeking family doctor
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative government is facing criticism after it took down an online dashboard that provided detailed information about the number of people waiting for a famil...
Feb 28, 2025
One in a million: Sask. mom reflects on her fight with rare cancer
WARMAN, SASK. - JJ Zimmer is like many other mothers across the province. She spends her days shuttling her two daughters between activities, juggling work as a teacher, managing household chores, and...
Feb 28, 2025 Just over two years ago, JJ Zimmer was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer. This Rare Disease Day, she is sharing her story in the hope that it will inspire others, showing that survival is possible even in the face of a rare and challenging illness. (Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM)
'Not a priority': Critics say Alberta falls short on health-care, education spending
EDMONTON - Critics say the Alberta government's proposed health-care and education spending in its new budget won't address long-standing problems in either sector. "Public education, once again, with...
Feb 28, 2025
Manitoba becomes first province to join national pharmacare program with $219M deal
OTTAWA - Manitoba became the first province to officially join Ottawa's pharmacare program on Thursday, giving it access to federal funding to cover the cost of birth control and diabetes medications ...
Feb 27, 2025
Ottawa, hospitals argue Montreal brainwashing lawsuit should be dismissed
MONTREAL - Alison Steel was a young child when her mother was sent to Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and his colleagues at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the 1950s for treatment of what her daughter ...
Feb 26, 2025
Alberta minister denies allegations he knew figure involved in procurement conflicts
Alberta's addictions minister is rejecting suggestions he knows a former government staffer now at the centre of a lawsuit alleging high-level political interference and favouritism in multimillion-do...
Feb 25, 2025
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