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EDMONTON - The Alberta government is introducing legislation to begin bringing a completely restructured health-care system to life. A bill proposed Tuesday outlines how the many arms of Alberta Healt...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia will continue to use virtual care into the future to ensure people without a doctor get access to primary care, a health official said Tuesday. Kim Barro, the province's associat...

As wildfires rage in British Columbia, the family of a nine-year-old who died last summer is trying to protect people from poor air quality due to smoke this year. Carter Vigh died of asthma exacerbat...

VANCOUVER - Federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward legislation that would forbid Ottawa from "ever" granting provinces exemptions to allow illicit drug use ...

TORONTO - Canadians who applied to be part of a class-action lawsuit against LifeLabs Inc. are now receiving cheques and e-transfers. KPMG, which is administering the claims, says on the class-action ...

Saskatchewan's first portable pediatric MRI is up and running in Saskatoon. The machine - a Swoop Portable MR Imaging System located at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital - is capable of scanning th...

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's highest court on Monday gave the state's attorney general another 90 days to decide further legal action in the case over a 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion that lawmak...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Impassioned supporters and opponents of a far-reaching Equal Rights Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution flocked to the State Capitol ahead of crucial votes aimed at putting ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Republicans said Monday that the state Senate would vote to override up to 36 of the governor's vetoes, including a bill to fight PFAS pollution - moves that Democrats derided as ...

TORONTO - Multiple health organizations are asking Ontario to develop a comprehensive strategy to prepare for the province's upcoming loosening of alcohol rules. Sales of beer, wine, cider, and ready-...