Tag Archives: Health
Ottawa could help health care with better international recruiting, premiers say
WINNIPEG - Canada's premiers reiterated calls for more federal help for health care Tuesday, while acknowledging that provinces can learn from each other in areas such as worker retention. The premier...
Jul 11, 2023
Alberta calls on federal government to help Indigenous communities with opioid crisis
WINNIPEG - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the federal government is failing when it comes to some of the big issues in its jurisdiction, particularly Indigenous health care. Speaking at the annua...
Jul 11, 2023
Get another COVID-19 booster in the fall, Canada's immunization panel recommends
OTTAWA - Canadians should get another COVID-19 vaccine booster in the fall if it's been at least six months since their last dose or COVID-19 infection, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization...
Jul 11, 2023
Premiers meeting in Winnipeg starts with discussion with Indigenous leaders
WINNIPEG - Canada's premiers kicked off their annual three-day conference Monday by meeting with Indigenous leaders on issues including housing, child welfare and reconciliation. David Chartrand, head...
Jul 10, 2023
Next steps on new health care deal tops agenda as premiers meet in Winnipeg
OTTAWA - The last time all of Canada's premiers sat down around the same table, their attention was focused on getting Ottawa to pay more to fix the understaffed, hospitals, shuttered emergency rooms,...
Jul 09, 2023
Cumberland House Cree Nation Expands Food and Medicine Forest
A food and medicine forest in Northeast Saskatchewan is seeding very good results.Cumberland House Cree Nation and Cumberland Wood Products have confirmed expansion of their Food and Medicine Forest P...
Jul 08, 2023
Community, Indigenous drug rehab programs across West get $20M in federal funds
Dozens of community and Indigenous groups across Western Canada will share $20 million in federal funding to boost the mental health and drug awareness, treatment and rehabilitation services they offe...
Jul 07, 2023
Pleas for help as Montreal's LGBTQ Village falls victim to addiction, homelessness
MONTREAL - The Village, Montreal's historical LGBTQ neighbourhood, has become the scene of homelessness, addiction and crime, with locals suggesting that its social problems are being imported because...
Jul 07, 2023
Community, Indigenous drug rehab programs across West get $20M in federal funds
SQUAMISH, B.C. - Dozens of community and Indigenous groups across Western Canada will share $20 million in federal funding to boost the mental health and drug awareness, treatment and rehabilitation s...
Jul 06, 2023
Quebec only outlier on Ottawa health deal as Nunavut, Yukon and N.W.T. sign on
OTTAWA - All three territories signed on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's health funding offer Thursday, leaving Quebec as the only holdout on the new accords. Trudeau presented his offer at a meeti...
Jul 06, 2023