Tag Archives: Health
B.C. requires witness for those using supply drugs to stop diversion to streets
VICTORIA - Rules are being tightened for British Columbia's overdose-prevention safer supply program to require a witness when a user takes their drugs in an effort to stop the pills from being sold o...
Dec 02, 2025
NDP leader says Liberals are being 'dishonest' about the future of pharmacare
OTTAWA - The federal government's response to a report it commissioned on national pharmacare was "shockingly dismissive," NDP interim leader Don Davies said this week as he called on the Liberals to ...
Dec 02, 2025
Nurse practitioners coming to Melfort; waitlist opens Wednesday
We have more information on the addition of two full-time nurse practitioners in Melfort. As we announced in November, Trent Leland and Taylor Arnold have joined the Primary Health Care team and will ...
Dec 02, 2025
Charge's Carla MacLeod navigates desire to coach with need for cancer treatment
Carla MacLeod says it won't be easy reconciling her desire to coach hockey with her need for breast cancer treatment. As coach of both the PWHL's Ottawa Charge and the Czech women's team, she's accust...
Dec 01, 2025
Activists mark World AIDS Day by calling for criminal reform, prevention funding
OTTAWA - Activists marked World AIDS Day on Monday by calling on the federal government to honour a Trudeau government promise to reform the laws on HIV disclosure, and to provide enough funding to ge...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal to open 500 new spaces in warming shelters for unhoused people
MONTREAL - The mayor of Montreal says the city's homelessness crisis is "more serious than ever" and addressing it is her top priority. "The crisis that we have in our hands right now in Montreal has ...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal museum spotlights sex workers history of activism and resistance
MONTREAL - When community group Mile End Chavurah held an event in 2023 to name Jewish Montreal's "new patron saint," Maimie Pinzer was the winning choice. As an activist, Pinzer established a communi...
Dec 01, 2025
New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be 'gatekeeping' PrEP
A coalition of doctors across Canada is releasing a new guideline for prescribing medications that can prevent HIV infection, with a strong focus on increasing the promotion and awareness of the expan...
Nov 30, 2025
Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod announces breast cancer diagnosis
OTTAWA - Carla MacLeod, the head coach of the Ottawa Charge and Czechia's national women's hockey team, says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a statement issued by the by the Professional...
Nov 30, 2025
UNAIDS chief urges Carney not to cut foreign aid, global health funding
OTTAWA - The head of the United Nations' HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government's planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding. "My message to Prime M...
Nov 30, 2025