Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Alberta introduces bills affecting transgender people, pronouns at school
EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a trio of bills focusing on transgender people and students using preferred pronouns. Premier Danielle Smith's government proposed Thursday one bill that would requir...
Oct 31, 2024
Coverage expands as dental program has 1M patients in first 6 months
OTTAWA - A million Canadians have received care under the federal dental-care plan six months after the program began, Health Minister Mark Holland said Thursday. Starting on Friday, the program will ...
Oct 31, 2024 Starting Friday, the program will also cover more complex procedures. That means people who have coverage under the federal program can request pre-authorization for things like crowns and the initial placement of partial dentures. (The Canadian Press)
Ontario lacks a health-care plan for alcohol harms as sales expand: health coalition
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's government has no strategy to mitigate problems that could result from the province's newly liberalized alcohol sales rules, a health coalition said Thursday, warning tha...
Oct 31, 2024
N.S. election: NDP promises to end fixed-term leases, impose rent-control system
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's temporary rent cap and a loophole that allows landlords to avoid it were the targets of the provincial New Democrats on Thursday, as they promised to protect tenants from evict...
Oct 31, 2024
B.C. judge urgently halts assisted death of Alberta woman, day before MAID procedure
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge has granted an urgent injunction stopping a woman's medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver. The injunction granted on...
Oct 30, 2024
Alzheimer Society supports advance MAID requests, but also good dementia care
TORONTO - Andre McGrath is living "a really wonderful life." She and her husband of 49 years, Rick McGrath, live in Kanata, Ont., where they golf, take walks and laugh loudly and often. They travel so...
Oct 30, 2024
Ottawa urged to halt imports of endangered monkeys for drug testing, amid U.S. probe
TORONTO - The federal government is facing mounting pressure to investigate the importation of endangered monkeys for medical research in Quebec, after a United States probe allegedly prompted a pharm...
Oct 30, 2024
N.S. votes: Liberals promise more collaborative care, Tories pledge menopause clinic
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Liberal leader Zach Churchill has pledged to build 20 new collaborative care centres and expand services at 20 existing clinics as a way to help tackle the province's stubbornly ...
Oct 30, 2024
Judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion ads
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday continued to block the head of Florida's health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion r...
Oct 29, 2024
Judge continues to block Florida officials from threatening TV stations over abortion ads
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida's health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights m...
Oct 29, 2024
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...