Tag Archives: health

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - The Alberta government has invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults. It's the seco...

TORONTO - Ophthalmologists are urging provincial governments not to move ahead with plans that would allow optometrists to perform some surgeries and laser eye treatments, which are currently outside ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta cabinet minister in charge of primary care says legislation is coming - but won't provide details - amid reports the province plans to let doctors work in the public and private...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it's making progress on improving public access to mental-health care, but advocates say the province is falling short. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston promis...

A British Columbia woman who escaped an abusive relationship was concerned about the safety of her pets and belongings she left behind so applied to the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Redu...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs missed Monday's critical budget vote because she is recovering from major surgery, a statement posted to social media said Tuesday. The budget motion passed by ...

Infectious disease veterinarian Scott Weese says the hundreds of ostriches shot dead on a rainy night at a British Columbia farm this month "probably weren't infected" with avian influenza at the time...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is promising to build an overpass to improve safety at an intersection where 17 people died in a bus crash. Premier Wab Kinew said Tuesday the overpass is to replace...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government has tabled legislation to add health-care numbers and mandatory citizenship markers to driver's licences and identification cards. The government had announced its plan...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government has signed its first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says the 19 new contracts will help patients get medi...