Tag Archives: Health
Canadian pot companies cheer as Senate committee advances cannabis finance reforms
WASHINGTON - Canadian cannabis companies and their investors cheered a Senate committee's decision Wednesday to push forward with measures designed to ease federal financing restrictions on their U.S....
Sep 27, 2023
Company at centre of E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares faces licensing charges
CALGARY - The company that runs a commercial kitchen at the centre of an E. coli outbreak that infected hundreds at numerous Calgary daycares has been charged with operating without a business licence...
Sep 27, 2023
Quebec nurses union says job postings requiring bilingualism are discriminatory
MONTREAL - A nurses union on Quebec's Gasp Peninsula says job postings by the local health-care network discriminate against francophones because they require that applicants speak English. The union ...
Sep 26, 2023
Flu season fast approaching in Saskatchewan, SHA encourages getting vaccinated
People across Saskatchewan are being encouraged to get their flu shot in the coming weeks.The annual influenza season is fast approaching with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) setting up clinic...
Sep 25, 2023
Prioritize disadvantaged people for primary care and screening access, report says
TORONTO - A group of Canadian doctors, nurses and other health-care providers has issued recommendations on how to make health care more equitable for disadvantaged people. In a report published in th...
Sep 25, 2023
Meadow Lake Mayor pleased as two new doctors set up in city
The mayor of Meadow Lake is excited that two new doctors have arrived in the community. The provincial government announced Thursday that 16 physicians opened practices in rural Saskatchewan after goi...
Sep 21, 2023
Up to 10 per cent of Quebec health-care workers have experienced long COVID: study
MONTREAL - A study by Quebec's public health institute has found that between six and 10 per cent of the province's health-care workers have experienced long COVID. The study, whose preliminary result...
Sep 21, 2023
COVID-19 lawsuit too broad, paints all Quebec care homes with same brush: lawyer
MONTREAL - A proposed class-action lawsuit against long-term care homes that experienced COVID-19 outbreaks is too broad and doesn't distinguish between the most affected facilities and those that had...
Sep 21, 2023
Ottawa gives Food Banks Canada $17.9M for pilot to provide period products
TORONTO - The federal government has tasked Food Banks Canada with handing out free menstrual products to members of marginalized low-income communities. Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien announced t...
Sep 21, 2023
Canada has supporting role to help Haiti, but 'there is no solution from outside': PM
NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not say Thursday whether Canada will take part in a Kenya-led multinational security mission in Haiti that the United Nations is under mounting U.S. pres...
Sep 21, 2023