Tag Archives: Health
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
Horgan urges federal government to carry half the health-care load as premiers meet
VICTORIA - Canada's provinces and territories need a partner that will share half the financial load on the health-care system, which is buckling without stable, predictable and long-term funding, Bri...
Jul 11, 2022
Ottawa's share of health-care funding to be top concern at premiers' meeting in B.C.
A group representing emergency room doctors across the country has a message for Canada's premiers: come up with a co-ordinated plan to prevent their workplaces from being closed due to staffing short...
Jul 10, 2022
Ottawa's share of health-care funding to be top concern at premiers' meeting in B.C.
A group representing emergency room doctors across the country has a message for Canada's premiers: come up with a co-ordinated plan to prevent their workplaces from being closed due to staffing short...
Jul 10, 2022
B.C. to offer COVID-19 booster for 12-plus starting this fall, new vaccines expected
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is gearing up for a major COVID-19 booster shot campaign this fall with the expectation that new vaccines tailor-made to fight the Omicron variant will be available. COVID...
Jul 08, 2022