Tag Archives: health

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say nine people are dead after an SUV plowed through a Vancouver street festival being staged by the city's Filipino community Saturday night, leaving a trail of debris...

SURREY - Health authorities in British Columbia have confirmed another new case of measles infection in the province, this time with a visitor from Ontario. Fraser Health says the visitor travelled to...

British Columbia's premier says the ongoing toxic drug crisis in the province has led to a cohort of people with serious brain injuries who are too deep in their addiction and mental-health crisis to ...

Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation were at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday calling for the British Columbia and Canadian governments to help expand support services in the ...

EDMONTON - A former Alberta cabinet minister says an investigation called by Premier Danielle Smith's government into multimillion-dollar health contracts looks like a whitewashing exercise. Peter Gut...

CALGARY - A commercial kitchen company pleaded guilty Thursday to four bylaw offences after a massive E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill. Fueling Minds Inc. w...

TORONTO - Public Health Ontario is reporting 95 new measles cases since last week, bringing the total number of people infected past 1,000. In its report released Thursday, the agency said as of Wedne...

OTTAWA - Party leaders emphasized familiar themes Thursday as they criss-crossed the country to shore up support in the final stretch of the federal election campaign. Conservative Leader Pierre Poili...

TORONTO - Medical researchers and lawyers say our rocky relationship with the U.S. creates an urgent need to protect a critical Canadian resource: patient health information that can be used to train ...

ST. JOHN'S - Canadians are dying alone from toxic drugs and experts say easier access to at-home drug-testing strips could help prevent deaths. But they warn the strips have limitations. Dr. Nash Deni...