Tag Archives: Health
Conservatives launch attack ads on NDP, calling leader 'Sellout Singh'
OTTAWA - The Conservative party released two new ads this week attacking NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a "sellout," blaming him for a national rise in crime, housing prices and costly living. The ads, w...
Jul 31, 2024
More Listeria infections reported amid outbreak linked to plant-based milk recall
The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting six additional cases of listeriosis linked to a national recall of plant-based milk beverages. The agency says a total of 18 cases have now been confirm...
Jul 30, 2024
Quebec government has only recouped about one-third of pandemic-era fines so far
MONTREAL - More than two years after Quebec lifted most of its COVID-era public health measures, the province has only recouped a little over one-third of the $68 million it issued in pandemic-related...
Jul 30, 2024
Protesters, advocates worry Quebec is complicating access to health care in English
MONTREAL - Several dozen protesters gathered in front of a Montreal hospital on Saturday afternoon to protest Quebec's French language reform law as anxieties deepen over the ability to access health-...
Jul 27, 2024
Quebec police arrest suspect after pedestrian killed in alleged hit and run
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are investigating a fatal hit and run that took place early on Saturday morning near Mont-Tremblant, Que, in the Laurentians region of the province. Police spokespe...
Jul 27, 2024
B.C.'s top doctor ends four-year COVID-19 public health emergency
VICTORIA - After four years that included mask mandates, vaccination requirements, gathering restrictions, surging hospitalizations and thousands of deaths, British Columbia's top doctor has ended the...
Jul 26, 2024
How to protect yourself from bad air quality due to wildfire smoke
As wildfires burn in parts of Canada and the wind carries smoke into communities near and far, health experts are advising people to regularly check air quality ratings and take precautions. Wildfire ...
Jul 26, 2024
Poverty more prevalent among those who died during B.C.'s heat dome: study
VANCOUVER - A researcher who looked into deaths during the eight hottest days of B.C.'s deadly heat dome says that equitably addressing the impacts of climate change would mean placing a larger focus ...
Jul 25, 2024
Canada's premiers forced to confront escalating climate change-related disasters
HALIFAX - As Canada's premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, many of them remained consumed by climate change-...
Jul 25, 2024
1 dose of HPV vaccine now recommended for younger groups, immunization committee says
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is now recommending one dose of HPV vaccine for children and youth between nine and 20 years old. It is maintaining its two-dose recommendation for peop...
Jul 24, 2024