Tag Archives: health

TORONTO - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says pneumonia hospitalizations rose by almost one-third across Canada last year. The data released Thursday shows kids between five and 17 year...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is putting nine questions to a provincewide referendum on Oct. 19, including proposals to restrict social services from some immigrants. One ques...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man who drowned his two children in October 2022 in their family home near Montreal told a jury on Wednesday he doesn't have any memories from the day they died. Kamaljit Arora was...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's budget is hurting the young, the old and cancer patients alike as government construction undergoes what the government says is a "re-pacing" to address fiscal pressures....

OTTAWA - Many Canadians face barriers to accessing health care in their own language and the federal government should prioritize fast-tracking immigration and credential recognition for bilingual and...

VICTORIA - No wonder British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey thought she was going to be "the least popular person in the province." She tabled a budget Tuesday that boosts taxes, delays proje...

EDMONTON - DAVID, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, answers a call before the first phone ring even finishes. "Hi," it says. "Did you reach out looking to speak with someone about an injur...

OTTAWA - There was no connection between a national security incident at the country's emergency stockpile warehouse in 2024 and an error that caused the loss of $20-million of medication, according t...

TUMBLER RIDGE - The investigation into last week's shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that claimed nine lives has moved into a new phase after police cleared the two crime scenes. While police say the ...

OTTAWA - Feminist and development groups are urging Canada not to turn its back on funding reproductive health and gender initiatives, as Canada focuses its foreign aid cuts on global health programmi...