Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - Facing a looming court-imposed deadline, the federal government will reintroduce Monday legislation to amend Canada's law on medical assistance in dying. The government has until Dec. 18 to a...

MONTREAL - The fate of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who died in a Quebec hospital after filming staff insulting her, is a tragic example of the systemic racism many Indigenous people face when ...

CALGARY - Lawyers for a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed five young people at a house party are appealing a decision to deny him some privileges.  A provincial mental health review board said...

OTTAWA - Seven months into the pandemic, medical experts have a better idea of how to treat COVID-19 and how to keep it out of high-risk settings which means there are far fewer people dying of the vi...

Nunavut's chief public health officer says there is another presumptive case of COVID-19 at a gold mine in western Nunavut, bringing the total to eight possible cases.On Monday, Dr. Michael Patterson ...

HALIFAX - A bid by a Nova Scotia woman to stop her 83-year-old husband from receiving a medically assisted death was rejected Friday by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.The unanimous ruling from a thre...

TORONTO - Staggering daily case counts elicited stern warnings to immediately tighten social circles and limit outings in the nation's COVID-19 hotspots, but also gave rise to a growing schism between...

HALIFAX - An advocacy group for children's cancer research says it's time Canada makes an advanced form of radiotherapy, called proton beam therapy, more widely available. Canada is the only G7 countr...

OTTAWA - People desperate to bring extended family members to Canada as the world remains locked down due to COVID-19 are being given some hope by the federal government.  Immigration Minister Ma...

MONTREAL - Residents of Quebec's two biggest cities could soon face more restrictions, Premier Francois Legault said Friday as his government attempts to control a second wave of COVID-19. Health offi...