Tag Archives: health

MONTREAL - A Montreal civil rights organization says a Quebec program to recruit and train nurses from overseas is leaving some participants in dire straits and dependent on food banks. Some nurses re...

VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...

OTTAWA - Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches will only be available behind pharmacy counters starting next week, as part of Health Minister Mark Holland's promised crackdown on the sale of new nic...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state's rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before vot...

VANCOUVER - Life expectancy for British Columbia's First Nations people has dropped by more than six years since 2017, says a report tracking Indigenous health issues. The report from the province's F...

TORONTO - Two Ontario government-commissioned reports recommended keeping existing drug consumption sites open across the province, increasing funding to stabilize staffing and hiring permanent securi...

OTTAWA - More than 100 synagogues, Jewish organizations and doctors in multiple cities across the country were on high alert Wednesday after they received the same threatening email. RCMP confirmed th...

People with disabilities are twice as likely to live in food insecure households than those without disabilities, a new Statistics Canada report says. The report, published on Wednesday, used data fro...

After bovine tuberculosis was detected in a cattle herd last year, the Government of Saskatchewan is making game testing mandatory in certain areas. The mandatory testing applies to hunters who draw e...

OTTAWA - A man who says he suffers from chronic and worsening mental health issues is among those launching a court challenge of the federal government assisted dying law, which excludes people suffer...