Tag Archives: health

VANCOUVER - Puberty blockers have been in the spotlight since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced plans last week to ban the medications for children 15 and younger, unless they have already star...

OTTAWA - Some dentists and hygienists fear they won't be fairly paid for services under a new federal dental plan, and they worry it will jeopardize the success of the massive program. Each provincial...

MONTREAL - A major Canadian tobacco company says it is "extremely disappointed" by British Columbia's decision to move the sale of flavoured nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters. Premier David Eb...

VANCOUVER - When the sun goes down, the rats of Vancouver's Burrard Skytrain Station emerge, in a scurrying blur of fur and whipping tails. Dozens of them, large and small, scamper around a park in fr...

VANCOUVER - B.C.'s government has ordered that flavoured nicotine pouches only be sold from behind pharmacy counters in the province in an effort to prevent youth from becoming addicted. The order sig...

Quebec is asking the federal government to change the Criminal Code so the province can begin allowing people to request medical assistance in dying before their condition renders them incapable of gi...

OTTAWA - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the government doesn't make good on pharmacare legislation by March, that would kill the Liberal-NDP political pact. But he's making it clear that an...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government plans to ensure sexually explicit "deepfakes" like the images of Taylor Swift that generated global headlines last month are addressed by forthcoming legislation on onl...

OTTAWA - The political battle lines over gender identity came into sharper focus Wednesday as Pierre Poilievre came out against treating young people with puberty blockers - a position that prompted a...

OTTAWA - Provincial leaders were frantic about the ailing state of their health care systems last year when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat them down and offered $46.2-billion worth of urgent treatm...