Tag Archives: Health
'Freedom Convoy' organizer Pat King will not testify at his trial: Crown
OTTAWA - The Crown attorney in the criminal mischief trial against "Freedom Convoy" organizer Pat King says the defendant will not testify. The trial itself is also being delayed again at the request ...
Jul 15, 2024
Strange summer for B.C. politics gone wild, as alliances shift ahead of fall vote
VICTORIA - A shakeup of seismic proportions is reshaping the British Columbia political landscape a little over three months ahead of this fall's Oct. 19 election. Former political foes are forging on...
Jul 12, 2024
Federal Tory leader blasts Montreal mayor's approach to addictions, homelessness
MONTREAL - Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attacking the Montreal mayor's approach to severe drug addiction and homelessness, accusing her of telling Montrealers to learn to live with ...
Jul 12, 2024
B.C. premier says 'zero per cent chance' for no-prescription opioid suggestion
BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby says there's a "zero per cent chance" the province will implement recommendations by the provincial health officer that alternatives to opioids and o...
Jul 12, 2024
Situation improving at McGill University superhospital after water main break
MONTREAL - A major Montreal health network started to reopen medical services Friday after an overnight aqueduct break cut drinkable water to its superhospital site. The McGill University Health Centr...
Jul 12, 2024
Conservatives would scale back supervised drug consumption sites, Poilievre says
OTTAWA - Supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with "a single taxpayer dollar," Pierre Poilievre said Friday. Duri...
Jul 12, 2024
How many doctors are there in Canada? Government announces projects to find out
OTTAWA - The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement. The money is...
Jul 11, 2024
B.C. rejects Henry report backing non-prescribed alternates to fentanyl, other drugs
VICTORIA - B.C's Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry joked that "the earth shook" with Thursday's release of her report on the safer-supply drug program, referring to an earthquake lightly felt...
Jul 11, 2024
'Justice was served': Killer of 4 women in Winnipeg guilty of first-degree murder
WINNIPEG - Cheers erupted in a Winnipeg courtroom, spilling out onto downtown streets Thursday, as family members who lost their loved ones at the hands of a serial killer said they had finally receiv...
Jul 11, 2024
City gets at big bonus in permit fees for hospital
An unbudgeted minimum $7 million surplus is heading the City of Prince Albert's way after some digging by the development department showed the province must get development and building permits for t...
Jul 10, 2024