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Ottawa seeks project pitches to for new mental health fund aimed at youth
OTTAWA - Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks is looking for pitches to help young Canadians who are struggling with their mental health. The federal government plans to distribute $500 million ...
Nov 18, 2024
Dix out as health minister as Eby introduces a drastically reshaped B.C. NDP cabinet
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says "kitchen table" issues in British Columbia will be the focus for his revamped, postelection cabinet that was sworn in on Monday. Eby's new cabinet, comprising 23 mini...
Nov 18, 2024
Eby says new B.C. cabinet built around 'kitchen table' issues: affordability, homes
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says the British Columbia cabinet he introduces Monday will be tasked with focusing on issues voters strongly told the government they are most concerned about: affordabil...
Nov 17, 2024
Trudeau says APEC leaders focused on how to trade with Trump administration
LIMA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's been advising world leaders to focus on common goals with Donald Trump ahead of his return to the White House, as Canada shores up its relations with cou...
Nov 16, 2024
N.B. fiscal update projects bigger deficit due to 'significant' travel nurse costs
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's new Liberal finance minister is projecting a deficit of $92.1 million for the current fiscal year, a reversal from the $40.9-million surplus budgeted last spring by the p...
Nov 15, 2024
Doctors in northern Saskatchewan treat 27 scurvy cases, highlight food insecurity
LA RONGE, Sask. - Doctors in La Ronge, Sask., have treated 27 cases of scurvy within the last six months, bringing to light the severe impact of food insecurity in the province's North. Dr. Jeff Irvin...
Nov 15, 2024
Doctors in La Ronge diagnose 27 cases of scurvy
By Glynn Brothen Within the last six months, doctors in La Ronge have treated 27 cases of scurvy, bringing to light the severe impact of food insecurity in the province's North. It started with a shar...
Nov 15, 2024 The La Ronge health centre. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
B.C.'s chief vet tells clinics to set up avian flu protocols amid human exposure risk
British Columbia's chief veterinarian has told clinics that treat wild birds that they must establish protocols to prevent the spread of avian flu, warning of the risk of human exposure to the illness...
Nov 14, 2024
Ottawa names experts to advise on creation of national pharmacare program
OTTAWA - The federal government has tapped a panel of five experts to craft the path toward a universal pharmacare program. Dr. Nav Persaud, the Canada Research Chair in health justice, will chair a c...
Nov 14, 2024
Trump chooses anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary
NEW YORK (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a man whose vi...
Nov 14, 2024
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