Tag Archives: Health
Deadline tight to implement dental care, but Duclos confident the feds will meet it
OTTAWA - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is confident the federal government will be able to set up its proposed dental-care program by the end of the year, he said Tuesday, though his department has...
Jul 12, 2022
Provinces still haven't received $2B in health top-ups announced by Liberals in March
OTTAWA - As premiers gathered in British Columbia try again to make their case for a permanent increase in federal health transfers, they're also waiting on $2 billion they were promised back in March...
Jul 12, 2022
Federal government has not created system to source safe supply to reduce overdoses
OTTAWA - More than a year since the federal government's expert task force recommended it create a safe supply of substances to reduce people's reliance on toxic street drugs, the government has not c...
Jul 12, 2022
More COVID-19 precautions needed as Quebec festival season takes flight: expert
MONTREAL - Health officials in Quebec City say it's too early to tell whether a major outdoor festival there is contributing to a rise in COVID-19 cases, but an infectious disease expert says addition...
Jul 12, 2022
Ottawa fast-tracking travel visas for AIDS conference amid sharp criticism
OTTAWA - The federal government is prioritizing temporary travel visas for people seeking to attend the International AIDS Conference in Montreal at the end of July. But the conference begins in two w...
Jul 12, 2022
Premiers want Ottawa along for 'generational opportunity' to modernize health care
VICTORIA - Canada's premiers want the federal government to stop "quibbling" about its share of health-care funding and partner with them on a "generational opportunity" to modernize a failing system,...
Jul 12, 2022
North East SPCA on the verge of shutting down
The North East SPCA says it is close to closing its doors, as they are surviving paycheck to paycheck.Without an increase in fundraising, the shelter is all but certain to shut down and not re-open fo...
Jul 11, 2022
Ninety-one-year-old woman dies after waiting seven hours for Montreal ambulance
Montreal paramedics say staff shortages are to blame after an ambulance took seven hours to respond over the weekend to a call involving a 91-year-old woman who died before they arrived. Urgences-sant...
Jul 11, 2022
More than 100 health-care professionals challenge rejection of psilocybin access
Shannon McKenney has had a severe migraine for about 1,500 days in a row. "I have trouble sleeping and I have trouble staying asleep," the musician from Burnaby, B.C., said during a recent phone inter...
Jul 11, 2022
City of Humboldt advises residents on new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements
Back on January 1, 2022, the Construction Codes Act and Building Code Regulations came into effect in Saskatchewan replacing the Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act and Regulations (UBAS ...
Jul 11, 2022