Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - Patty Hajdu "fell in love" with cultural anthropology at university. Now, as Canada's federal health minister in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she's playing a leading role in an existen...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - On a day off work in mid-March, Craig Dyer took some time to pay his respects at the funeral of a co-worker's brother. He stopped by Caul's Funeral Home in St. John's with some...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Medical officers of health and Canada's chief public health officer are encouraging people to wash their hands, giv...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 9:27 p.m. on April 5, 2020: There are 15,512 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 7,944 confirmed (includ...

OTTAWA - Canadian hospitals should not throw out used face masks and other protective equipment because public health officials are investigating whether it will be possible to disinfect and reuse the...

VANCOUVER - The federal and provincial governments are facing a "potential disaster" if more protections and social-distancing guidelines aren't extended to migrant agricultural workers, advocates say...

TORONTO - Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting 106 new cases of COVID-19, as well as two more deaths. The new cases bring the total ...

OTTAWA - As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments, unfurled just weeks earlier, were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers. Then came t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Medical officers of health and Canada's chief public health officer are encouraging people to wash their hands, giv...