Tag Archives: health

VANCOUVER - Bored and isolated students are spending too many hours online and some have started using more substances, but all students will need extra emotional support ...

MISSION, B.C. - A justice advocacy group says it wants prisoners at a federal institution in British Columbia ravaged by a COVID-19 outbreak to know there are people in the community fighting for...

MONTREAL - A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon. Now, the former NHL enforcer...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa biotech company is voluntarily recalling a rapid test for COVID-19 after Health Canada expressed concern about its effectiveness, dealing a setback to expanded testing in ...

Urmila Persaud spent months picturing herself walking across a stage to collect her high-school diploma in front of friends and family. But the COVID-19 pandemic has replaced that vision with a big qu...

TORONTO - As the deadly toll of COVID-19 on Canada's nursing homes gives rise to a growing number of proposed class-action lawsuits, some legal experts say the cases will turn on what's considere...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 2:55 p.m. Newfoundland and Labrador's number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 remains at 259, with 232 people having recove...

WINNIPEG - Rick Sterzer was lying at home struggling to breathe. Each day it was harder to get air into his lungs. The 65-year-old retired Winnipeg firefighter had tested negative ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and - in at least one cas...

OTTAWA - A few months before the novel coronavirus arrived in Canada, the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at Loon Lake, Sask. was already raising the alarm over suicides in the community...