Tag Archives: health

TORONTO - Anne Welch worked a physically demanding job at her local SPCA - lifting pets, cleaning kennels and walking dogs - until she retired at age 71. With the loss of that physical activity, coupl...

Green Shirt Day is back, and Canadians are being encouraged once more to register as organ donors. Green Shirt Day is a national campaign rooted in the legacy of an Alberta-born junior hockey player k...

MONTREAL - The Artemis II mission is showing how even a short 10-day journey in deep space presents significant challenges to the human body, including exposure to radiation and other effects scientis...

EDMONTON - Alberta's hospitals minister says a patient seeking care at a major Edmonton emergency room was taken into custody after attacking another patient on Friday. Matt Jones says in a social med...

OTTAWA - Thursday marks one year since U.S. President Donald Trump upended the global trading system with his "Liberation Day" duties - a major step in his wider tariff campaign that's hammered critic...

VICTORIA - The provincial government says B.C. now has the most doctors per capita in the country, while its recruitment efforts targeting U.S.-trained health professionals have wooed more than 500 pe...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is proposing changes to give it more oversight of who hires temporary foreign workers. Jobs and Immigration Minister Joseph Schow proposed a bill Wednesday that, if pas...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is paying a U.S. firm to find emergency room physicians south of the border for temporary posts, largely in rural and northern communities. Shared Health, the provin...

OTTAWA - Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" a First Nations woman who was protesting over mercury poisoning in her community....

REGINA - Groups that represent doctors in Saskatchewan say they're worried a bill that proposes to force treatment on those battling drug addictions could put additional pressure on squeezed emergency...