Tag Archives: health

A co-owner of the B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is "actively mobilizing" to destroy the birds over the next few days, and i...

TORONTO - Two Canadian patients with spinal cord injuries have received Neuralink brain implants that have allowed them to control a computer with their thoughts. They are part of the first clinical t...

WINNIPEG - RCMP say a man killed his sister and wounded several others Thursday in a stabbing rampage on a Manitoba First Nation. He then fled and was killed in a highway crash with a Mountie who was ...

TORONTO - Ontario's top doctor is calling for a national immunization schedule and registry to address gaps exposed by the resurgence of measles in Canada - but first, he says his own province needs a...

MONTREAL - Quebec is replacing its national public health director, with Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh taking over from Dr. Luc Boileau. In a statement Wednesday, the government said Quach-Thanh's term wil...

VANCOUVER - No city can completely eliminate all risks to public safety and it's not feasible to protect every event among thousands held each year, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said following the release ...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is changing the planned location of its first supervised consumption site after facing stiff opposition from area residents. The province, in partnership with the Ab...

Saskatchewan is set to get millions from a legal settlement with tobacco companies, but it appears only some of that money will go toward cancer care and prevention. Jeremy Cockrill, Saskatchewan's he...

Ontario's information and privacy commissioner has ordered a Windsor doctor and his private clinic to pay thousands of dollars in fines for privacy breaches in a case she calls a "cautionary tale" for...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and adults ...