Tag Archives: health

VANCOUVER - Registered and psychiatric nurses in British Columbia will be able to prescribe safer drugs for people at risk of overdose under a new public health order that advocates are...

OTTAWA - Brandon Rheal Amyot is taking on debt to pay about $3,000 in tuition this semester, including fees for services and facilities that cannot be used. With classes having moved online due to the...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:14 p.m. EDT on Sept. 16, 2020: There are 139,747 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 65,857 confirmed (including 5,788 deaths, 57,804 ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's democratic institutions - including Parliament and Elections Canada - need to be fully functional even in the midst of a deadly pandemic. But he in...

OTTAWA - The spouse of Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says she is in self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.In a tweet, Nancy Deziel says she was tested Monday after losing h...

VANCOUVER - Air quality in the Vancouver area has improved slightly but an advisory on smoke that drifted north from wildfires in the United States was still in effect on Tuesday. The advisory wa...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government went looking for a way to quickly set up exterior visitation rooms at personal care homes across the province - something that could keep residents and the...

OTTAWA - As fretful Canadian parents mull sending their children to school or opting for at-home learning, poorer countries are coming to grips with no school at all as the only option.  Lebanon ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says hundreds of billions of dollars in planned spending for the military over the next two decades is "secure" despite the ballooning federal deficit to deal w...

VANCOUVER - The daughter of a man who died of COVID-19 paid tribute to him and other seniors who have lost their lives at a memorial she unveiled in the West End of Vancouver. The memorial features a ...