Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - As John Main settled in for one of his first interviews since being chosen as Nunavut's new premier, his phone rang while he was in the middle of a sentence. "Hi Doug," he said, taking a cong...

EDMONTON - The union representing 16,000 hospital workers says it reached a tentative agreement with Alberta's health authority a minute before its members hit the picket lines Saturday morning. Sandr...

What was to be a short afternoon field trip for about 20 students and staff of a school in Bella Coola, B.C., became a scene of trauma and heroism when a grizzly bear attack badly injured four people,...

JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Canada's first-ever cut to funding for a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries - a move that has been sharp...

OTTAWA - Canada should create a pharmacare system that offers free access to essential medicines to anyone with a health card and allows private insurance to continue playing a role, an expert committ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is distancing herself from a multimillion-dollar lab testing debacle involving the former private provider DynaLife. Smith, speaking in the legislature Thursd...

OTTAWA - Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Thursday she plans to try and "amend the heck" out of the government's border security bill, Bill C-12, with a host of measures tar...

FREDERICTON - The premier of New Brunswick says her government is set to sign a new four-year agreement with the provincial medical society that will improve access to primary care. Members of the New...

EDMONTON - An Alberta legislature member was called on by the Opposition to apologize Thursday after saying the province has a duty to step in to deal with "bad parents" while also comparing transgend...

OTTAWA - The dangers children face online constitute a national emergency, a coalition of child advocates and medical organizations said Thursday as they called for the federal government to take acti...