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WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government introduced a bill Thursday that would allow authorities to detain intoxicated people for up to 72 hours instead of the current 24. The extra time would apply to peop...

EDMONTON - A newborn in Alberta has died of measles marking the province's first death from the disease this year, the government said Thursday. Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said the child...

MONTRAL - Dr. Balfour Mount, widely recognized as the father of palliative care, is being remembered for his contribution to revolutionizing how people live out their final days. Mount died on Sept. 2...

OTTAWA - Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn't given her permission fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their demands to salvage health care subsidies that President Don...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a federal government shutdown is "likely," with Congress deadlocked ahead of a midnight deadline to pass legislation to keep it running. "Not...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's finance minister says the province finished the 2024-25 fiscal year with a $104.4-million deficit, instead of the $40.9-million surplus they had budgeted for. Ren Legacy ...

TORONTO - Flu and COVID-19 vaccine shots are available in parts of the country this week, with doctors urging people at highest risk in particular to get vaccinated as the respiratory virus season set...

MONTRAL - Five years after Joyce Echaquan died tragically in a Quebec hospital room, there is still work to be done to improve the treatment of Indigenous people in the province's health system, polit...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby came prepared with announcements as he spoke to leaders of British Columbia's local governments, promising more involuntary care facilities for those with severe mental il...