Tag Archives: Health

TORONTO - More than 7,000 people with diabetes undergo a leg, foot or toe amputation every year - and the majority of those procedures could have been prevented, the Canadian Institute for Health Info...

It's been five years since the opening of the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation (JPCHF), and since then, it has put forward over $85 million to support maternal and pediatric care across all...

Cameco is donating $1.5 million to the Boreal Healthcare Foundation in support of the Victoria Hospital Redevelopment and Expansion project. The company's donation supports high risk maternal care thr...

The town of Nipawin has changed their plan to borrow money for three significant projects. Council has rescinded a resolution made at their previous council meeting Sept. 9 that saw a long-term debt a...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are creating a new agency to beef up Canada's ability to handle rapidly spreading infectious diseases and protect from future pandemics. Industry Minister Franois-Philipp...

Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech's updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, marking its third authorization of vaccine formulations that protect against the most recently circulating variants of the...

Mike Goetz has added bill collector to his list of responsibilities as mayor of Merritt in British Columbia's Interior. In June, Goetz sent the province an invoice for $103,831.87, the cost, he said, ...

NEW YORK - Justin Trudeau's interview on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" began with the expected jokes about bacon and Canadians saying sorry a lot, but the prime minister acknowledged it's "a re...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has clarified that anglophones have the right to receive health and social services in English in a new directive meant to allay concerns the province was trying to re...

On the day British Columbia Conservative Party Leader John Rustad unveiled a major election campaign promise to help renters and homeowners squeezed by high housing costs, a video surfaced showing him...