Tag Archives: health

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government tabled a bill Friday to force treatment on those battling drug addictions, a plan a mother of two dead sons says would have helped them. Angela McPhee says her sons,...

OTTAWA - An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environment groups in Canada to ask the federal gover...

MONTREAL - A man who stabbed his parents and grandmother to death inside their Montreal home in March 2023 should be found not criminally responsible for the crimes, the prosecution and defence told a...

TORONTO - Hospitals are seeing more children sick with flu after the virus began circulating earlier than usual this year. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario said it saw eight times more kids ...

MONTREAL - Quebec is reporting a new case of measles in the Montreal area, the first in the province since April. The case involves a person who visited a pediatric clinic in St-Eustache, Que., an off...

EDMONTON - Alberta's transforming provincial health authority is in for another shakeup as it says its chief executive officer is on a leave of absence. Alberta Health Services says it can't provide d...

EDMONTON - Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government's decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override teachers' rights and shut d...

MONTRAL - A doctor and former head of a Quebec political party has been suspended for six months from practising medicine by the province's college of physicians for his approach to treating patients ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia NDP caucus says legislator Joan Phillip is dealing with an illness that requires additional testing. New Democrat caucus chair Garry Begg said in a news release on Wedn...

Canadians affected by a 23andMe data security breach two years ago have reached a proposed class-action settlement with the genetic testing company for approximately $4.49 million. Canada's privacy wa...