Tag Archives: health

TORONTO - Federal Health Minister Mark Holland announced Tuesday he is temporarily suspending the work of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which has come under fire for not recommend...

For most new parents, the excitement of bundling their brand-new baby up for the first time - strapping them into the car seat, ready to head home - is one of life's most joyful moments. But for some ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has hired a former head of Manitoba's provincial court to investigate allegations of high-level arm-twisting in lucrative government contracts. The government said Mo...

EDMONTON - For the second time in under a week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing pushback from within her own United Conservative caucus. This time it's over her proposed 2025 budget. Backbenc...

OTTAWA - Next-generation 911 service - which would allow Canadians to send texts or video to summon help - won't be implemented for another two years. The CRTC had set Tuesday as the deadline for tran...

TORONTO - Nurses, midwives and doulas can treat depression and anxiety symptoms experienced during pregnancy and after delivery, a new study says. The clinical trial, published Monday in the journal N...

Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near the...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has spent or budgeted more than $340,000 for advertising campaigns promoting its fuel tax and electricity savings - more than it spent last year on ads to persuade p...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says an external reviewer is to be announced next week, as her government continues to face questions surrounding allegations of corruption in health-care con...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative government is facing criticism after it took down an online dashboard that provided detailed information about the number of people waiting for a famil...