Tag Archives: Health
Mohawk Mothers seek halt to excavation amid former Montreal hospital grave search
MONTREAL - A group of Indigenous women were in Quebec Superior Court on Thursday trying to stop drilling and excavation at the former site of a hospital where they say unmarked graves may be located, ...
Sep 14, 2023
Trudeau in New York next week to talk climate, development at UN General Assembly
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to New York next week to take part in the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed today that T...
Sep 14, 2023
Eight children released from hospital after E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares
Eight children who were severely ill from E. coli infections have been discharged from hospital even as the number of cases related to an outbreak at several Calgary daycares continued to rise. There ...
Sep 14, 2023
Indigenous communities continue to benefit from mobile mental health buses
There is hope that a project providing much-needed mental health care to several Indigenous communities over the past two years will expand. In 2021, the Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) Mobile Mental H...
Sep 13, 2023
A timeline of the E. coli outbreak linked to Calgary daycares and a central kitchen
CALGARY - More than 300 people, mostly children, have been infected in an E. coli outbreak linked to 11 daycares in Calgary. Twenty-one children are in hospital. Seven are on dialysis, which is a trea...
Sep 13, 2023
'Needle in a haystack': Experts say finding daycare E. coli outbreak source complex
CALGARY - Public health investigators and scientists in Alberta are working like detectives - interviewing people, gathering evidence and waiting for lab test results - to find out what caused a massi...
Sep 13, 2023
Bill prompts call for Quebec to recognize systemic racism in health system
Quebec's College of Physicians says the government is taking a "paternalistic and colonialist" approach with new legislation aimed at improving the treatment of Indigenous people in the health network...
Sep 12, 2023
Walkerton and XL Foods: A look at some of the major E. coli 0157 outbreaks in Canada
An outbreak of E. coli infections at several Calgary day centres has infected more than 200 people, most of them children. It's not the first major outbreak of the food-borne illness, which is caused ...
Sep 12, 2023
Critical health violations found in kitchen used by daycares after E. coli outbreak
CALGARY - Inspectors found three critical violations, including improper sanitation and live cockroaches, at a central kitchen serving Calgary daycares affected by an E. coli outbreak, said a report r...
Sep 12, 2023
Health Canada approves updated Moderna vaccine for COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canada's senior public health officials are urging Canadians to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine this fall after the first shot targeting the latest variants was authorized for use on Tuesday....
Sep 12, 2023