Tag Archives: Health
Doctor and nurses are leaving Nunavik over water shortages that affect care
PUVIRNITUQ - Doctors and nurses in Quebec's Nunavik region say constant water shortages are a factor that is pushing some colleagues to leave, in a region where retention of staff has long been an iss...
Nov 23, 2025
New Nunavut premier takes office as federal government pushes infrastructure drive
OTTAWA - As John Main settled in for one of his first interviews since being chosen as Nunavut's new premier, his phone rang while he was in the middle of a sentence. "Hi Doug," he said, taking a cong...
Nov 23, 2025
Rangers say Canadian Derek Cornelius will see a specialist over muscle injury
GLASGOW - There could be more bad injury news for Canada coach Jesse Marsch. Glasgow Rangers coach Danny Rhl says Canadian centre back Derek Cornelius is going to see a specialist about a muscle injur...
Nov 22, 2025
'Life and death': Chief tells of trauma and bravery in grizzly attack on B.C. pupils
What was to be a short afternoon field trip for about 20 students and staff of a school in Bella Coola, B.C., became a scene of trauma and heroism when a grizzly bear attack badly injured four people,...
Nov 21, 2025
Canada cuts back spending on fighting infectious diseases at G20 in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Canada's first-ever cut to funding for a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries - a move that has been sharp...
Nov 21, 2025
Expert report calls on Ottawa to fund essential medicines, enshrine pharmacare in law
OTTAWA - Canada should create a pharmacare system that offers free access to essential medicines to anyone with a health card and allows private insurance to continue playing a role, an expert committ...
Nov 21, 2025
Conservatives plan to try and amend asylum system rules in border security bill
OTTAWA - Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Thursday she plans to try and "amend the heck" out of the government's border security bill, Bill C-12, with a host of measures tar...
Nov 20, 2025
Child advocates urge government to bring back online harms legislation
OTTAWA - The dangers children face online constitute a national emergency, a coalition of child advocates and medical organizations said Thursday as they called for the federal government to take acti...
Nov 20, 2025
Advocates disappointed budget offered no funding for IVF, despite campaign pledge
OTTAWA - Fertility advocates say they're disappointed the Liberal government did not make good on its campaign promise to fund in vitro fertilization treatments in the recent federal budget. The Liber...
Nov 20, 2025
RCMP says B.C. ostrich farm investigations continue, charges neither laid nor stayed
RCMP say investigations are ongoing in relation to their enforcement operation at a British Columbia farm where avian influenza prompted the cull of hundreds of ostriches, with charges neither laid no...
Nov 19, 2025