Tag Archives: health

TORONTO - The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems, giving both patients and providers access t...

CALGARY - Members of Calgary's executive committee narrowly voted down a motion that could have symbolically supported the closure of the city's sole supervised consumption site, looking for more clar...

OTTAWA - A Canadian man who says he has been tortured in Syria is asking the Federal Court to order Ottawa to decide whether to help bring him home. The man, known publicly only as SS, is one of sever...

EDMONTON - Alberta's recently announced effort to add physician shifts to help triage patients in crowded emergency rooms has been delayed. The program was to have started over the weekend. The presid...

TORONTO - Calls to Toronto Seniors Helpline are on the rise as older adults struggle with issues ranging from no heat in their homes to loneliness amid brutal cold and impassable snow-covered sidewalk...

As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...

WINNIPEG - A registered nurse who wrongly administered fentanyl, nearly killing a patient, and asked a doctor to approve the move after the fact has been stripped of her licence by Manitoba's nursing ...

VANCOUVER - Last weekend, frontline health workers in Trail, B.C., reported "disturbing" scenes to Dr. Karin Goodison, medical health officer with Interior Health. She said workers were finding about ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's private doctors federation is mounting a legal challenge against a law that requires all new doctors to practice in the province's public system for five years. The Fdration des md...

EDMONTON - Alberta's 9,000 unionized provincial employees are going back to the office full-time starting this weekend, but not without a brown bag protest. Bobby-Joe Borodey, vice-president of the Al...