Tag Archives: Health
Dozens of recommendations in overdose and drug toxicity report by B.C. MLAs
VICTORIA - An all-party committee at British Columbia's legislature has released a report on drug toxicity and overdose deaths that calls for dozens of urgent steps from the province to address the de...
Nov 01, 2022
Quebec to open two nurse-run clinics in Montreal to ease emergency room crisis
MONTREAL - Quebec's health minister on Tuesday promised that his new three-point plan to ease emergency room overcrowding will show results in a few weeks, as ER doctors warned that the network has re...
Nov 01, 2022
Results of First Nation suicide study show need for improvement, offer hope for change
Chief Margaret Bear of the Ochapowace First Nation remembers sitting in the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' previous building three years ago, filled with emotion and sharing much of the p...
Nov 01, 2022
Alcohol freezies handed out by mistake during Halloween event
The Resort Village of Candle Lake had to issue a warning Saturday evening after a small number of freezies containing alcohol were handed out at a community children's party earlier in the day. "Pleas...
Oct 31, 2022
New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease
MONTREAL - A new clinic opened Monday in Montreal to treat patients and help researchers better understand two conditions with different origins but similar symptoms - long COVID and Lyme disease. The...
Oct 31, 2022
B.C. offers doctors new pay model, including $135,000 raise, to target health crisis
VANCOUVER - Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system. The ...
Oct 31, 2022
Climate Changed: Canada's health system isn't ready for new reality, say doctors
Montreal family doctor Claudel Ptrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing "risk amplifier." She says it raises the potential for hazard across the board, from threatening the most bas...
Oct 30, 2022
Province helping accredit health workers living in Sask. to counter shortage
It's about to get easier for health-care workers from other countries to work in Saskatchewan.Premier Scott Moe said part of the work being done to address the physician and health-care worker shortag...
Oct 29, 2022
Feds take first step toward creating stand-alone insurance program for dental care
The Liberal government is moving toward providing dental-care insurance directly to qualifying Canadians, rather than working with provinces and territories to bolster existing coverage.That will invo...
Oct 28, 2022
Feds take first step toward creating stand-alone insurance program for dental care
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is moving toward providing dental-care insurance directly to qualifying Canadians, rather than working with provinces and territories to bolster existing coverage. That...
Oct 28, 2022