Tag Archives: Health

The Canadian Press has spent the past month interviewing some of Canada's more than 11,000 centenarians and their families. These are some of their stories. 'THEY HAD TO FLY IN DOCTORS TO NAIROBI' Bil...

VANCOUVER - Vi Roden said she reads an average of 50 books a year, attends history lectures at her local seniors centre, and does yoga twice a week. She's 101, and still lives in her own condo in West...

OTTAWA - Her kids are not reading the newspapers on her kitchen counter. Instead, they're looking at their phones to find information. That's the example that Treasury Board President Anita Anand brin...

Another major hurdle has been cleared in the quest to build a heliport at the Nipawin Hospital. The Twin Lakes District Planning Commission (TLDPC) announced on Monday that CandorBuild Construction ha...

OTTAWA - As debate around the Liberals' drug policy dominated parts of the spring House of Commons sitting, the Conservatives are offering little insight into what approach they would take when it com...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has filed a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of so-called "forever chemicals," involved in what it calls widespread contamination of drinking-water...

TORONTO - Deaths in Canada's 12 most populous cities go up during extreme heat waves and people aged 65 and older are at higher risk than those who are younger, says a Statistics Canada report release...

OTTAWA - The federal health minister has asked the Senate to move as quickly as possible to pass the government's pharmacare legislation so that Canadians can start accessing medications by next sprin...

A renovation of a garage at the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre (JRMCC) will be used as an exercise space for various programs. Work on the project began about a month ago and it is expected t...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) was in Melfort on Tuesday to present a Hand-in-Hand Innovation Award to Food Sharing Melfort.Originally started by healthcare workers in the community, the grou...