Tag Archives: health

TORONTO - A new report says LGBTQ+ people in Canada aren't getting access to the health care they need - including mental-health treatment -compared to the general population. The Pink Paper on Health...

Melody Leinweber's latest tattoo is a stylized portrait of an ostrich with a colourful beak, pink and turquoise stars around its head and a twinkle in its eyes. The mother of four from West Kelowna, B...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says her government has a plan to transform the provincial economy, but warns doing so will require difficult decisions, including cuts to government spe...

OTTAWA - The union representing employees at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said staff have been told 1,371 agency jobs will be cut as part of the government's cost-cutting exercise. The Agricult...

Sick with pneumonia and a blood infection, Paula Krawiec said her 77-year-old mother waited 24 hours to see a doctor in the emergency department at an Edmonton-area hospital last month. Over in Calgar...

VANCOUVER - The union representing ambulance paramedics and emergency dispatchers in British Columbia says its more than 6,000 members will be taking a strike vote in early February. Ambulance Paramed...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered a three-day fitness trial for the man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang more than three years ago. Jongwon Ham - who appeared v...

MONTREAL - Four labs were damaged after burst pipes sent water pouring through an aging building at a Montreal mental health hospital and research centre on Monday, in what a staff member describes as...

OTTAWA - The claims process for a landmark "Indian hospitals" settlement opened Tuesday, nearly one year after the federal government reached an agreement with survivors on compensation. The federal g...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it disagrees with parts of an auditor general report calling on the province to be more transparent with the performance of the health-care system. In a repor...