Tag Archives: health

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has rejected another legal motion filed by a woman trying to stop her husband from receiving a medically assisted death. In a decision released today, Nova Scotia Court o...

The premiers of Ontario and Quebec are calling on Ottawa to increase health transfers to the provinces, saying that sustainable, long-term funding is required on top of existing federal COVID-19 ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:18 p.m. EDT on Sept. 9, 2020: There are 134,293 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 64,056 confirmed (including 5,771 deaths, 56,400 r...

VANCOUVER - Students across British Columbia are getting ready for COVID-19 orientation sessions this week amid a flurry of new protocols aimed at reopening schools while the pandemic wears on. Educat...

Multiple provinces reported COVID-19 cases linked to schools just as thousands more students returned to class Tuesday, raising fears over what's in store for a segment of the population largely ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor ordered nightclubs and banquet halls to close on Tuesday to control the spread of COVID-19 and placed new restrictions on the sale of alcoh...

MONTREAL - A group of Quebec parents has lost the first round of a legal fight to force the province to provide an online learning option for families worried about sending children to school ami...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she won't get ahead of an independent review of the early-warning unit in her agency that's meant to flag potential pandemics. Dr. Theresa ...

OTTAWA - Canadians appear to still have solid faith in doctors and scientists nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, but opinions of educators have not fared so well. A new survey done for Proo...

OTTAWA - The Canadian legal team for an imprisoned Iranian human-rights lawyer is calling for federal sanctions and United Nations intervention as she wages a life-threatening hunger strike entering i...