Tag Archives: health

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province has stepped in to pay an outstanding $25,000 bill to a hotel where a social services agency dispatched patients in post-hospital recovery. An...

Canadians are wishing the Princess of Wales a speedy recovery after she announced she has cancer. "My thoughts are with the Princess of Wales, her children, and the entire Royal Family following the n...

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, is undergoing chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with cancer. In a video posted to social media on Friday, Catherine said she underwent major abdominal sur...

HALIFAX - A provincial health-care renovation project that has drawn pointed criticism from Nova Scotia's auditor general is being turned over to a private company. Health Minister Michelle Thompson a...

TORONTO - Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. The province established what's now known as the Temporary Locum Pr...

TORONTO - When Dr. Garth Graham thinks about health misinformation on social media platforms, he envisions a garden. No matter how bountiful or verdant that garden is, even the head of YouTube's globa...

A group convened by the federal government to study the legislation that made cannabis legal is recommending the country review one of the industry's biggest gripes: excise taxes charged to pot produc...

Alberta's health minister says a non-profit agency that shipped a stroke patient to a motel for his long-term recovery will be taken off a roster of agencies offered to provide such support. Adriana L...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning the public about a possible risk of exposure to hepatitis at a Saskatoon drug store. According to the health authority, those who purchased food and drinks...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew formally apologized at the provincial legislature Thursday to two men who were switched at birth in a hospital almost 70 years ago and only late in life discovere...