Tag Archives: health

OSHAWA, Ont. - A new hospital in Whitby, Ont., will be built and operational within 10 years, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Thursday. The province has given Lakeridge Health $12 million in capital...

OTTAWA - The Conservative party released two new ads this week attacking NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a "sellout," blaming him for a national rise in crime, housing prices and costly living. The ads, w...

Ontario is officially ending its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program as of Wednesday in a move some public health experts say is shortsighted. Dr. Fahad Razak, the former scientific director of t...

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting six additional cases of listeriosis linked to a national recall of plant-based milk beverages. The agency says a total of 18 cases have now been confirm...

MONTREAL - More than two years after Quebec lifted most of its COVID-era public health measures, the province has only recouped a little over one-third of the $68 million it issued in pandemic-related...

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA - A report into a massive E. coli outbreak at Calgary child-care facilities that saw hundreds fall ill says it was likely tied to meat loaf at one meal, but how it got there c...

MONTREAL - Several dozen protesters gathered in front of a Montreal hospital on Saturday afternoon to protest Quebec's French language reform law as anxieties deepen over the ability to access health-...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are investigating a fatal hit and run that took place early on Saturday morning near Mont-Tremblant, Que, in the Laurentians region of the province. Police spokespe...

VICTORIA - After four years that included mask mandates, vaccination requirements, gathering restrictions, surging hospitalizations and thousands of deaths, British Columbia's top doctor has ended the...

TORONTO - Ontario is doubling the number of children eligible for vaccination against a virus that can make young kids very sick. The province says infants and high-risk children up to two years old w...