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Shortage of N.B. health-care providers forces student to pay out of pocket to see gynecologist
Mhàiri Agnew has suffered from recurring abdominal pain for more than half of her life. When she first complained as a child, her longtime...
Brian Nadler recounted troubled times at Saskatoon hospital to Nevada medical board
The doctor charged with first-degree murder in the death of an Ontario hospital patient — and who once told a U.S. medical board how...
Hopeful buyers stand in line for chance to snag townhomes in Vancouver suburb
A line stretched up a newly poured sidewalk in Langley, B.C. on Saturday as hopeful home buyers queued for a chance to get into Metro Vancouver’s...
B.C. health minister says it’s time to ‘dig in’ to obey COVID-19 safety rules as cases mount
B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix has defended measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19, even as his province set one-day case counts...
Scientists, First Nations team up in fresh attempt to revive struggling B.C. herring stocks
Vancouver’s Coal Harbour hardly looks like a setting for a potential wildlife refuge. Noisy float planes skitter to and from a nearby dock,...
London’s health unit issues warning as 50% of new COVID-19 cases involve youth under 22
The Middlesex London Health Unit has issued an urgent notice to young adults telling them to “do their part,” stay home and get...
Federal court judge rules in favour of Acho Dene Koe First Nation member’s complaint about election delay
A federal court judge has ruled that the N.W.T. Acho Dene Koe First Nation chief and council overstepped their powers when they extended...
Crown accuses Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers of denying facts in bid to toss extradition
A lawyer for Canada’s attorney general says Meng Wanzhou’s defence team is ignoring basic facts of the case against their client by accusing...
Health officer warned RCMP of challenge identifying patient zero in Campbellton COVID outbreak
The medical officer of health in the Campbellton region warned RCMP it would be difficult to identify Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola as patient zero in the...
Canadian explorer to attempt 1st human-powered crossing of Turks and Caicos Islands
Toronto-based explorer Mario Rigby spent two years crossing the African continent on foot. Last summer, he paddled the length of Lake Ontario in...
Ford to impose Ontario-wide shutdown as 3rd wave of COVID-19 hits hard
With a record number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units and its highest-ever rate of new cases in schools, multiple sources...
COVID-19 and N.L.’s election results probably killed the idea of a spring federal election
If rising COVID-19 caseload numbers and the spread of more contagious and deadlier variants of the virus were not enough already to close the door on a...
This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
Back in the 1980s, there was a public service announcement on TV that you may remember — or may have seen on YouTube....
College suspends doctor’s licence after murder charge following death of hospital patient
An Eastern Ontario doctor has had his medical licence suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) days after being charged...
Ontario now has more COVID-19 patients in ICU than ever before
Admissions of COVID-19 patients to Ontario’s intensive care units (ICUs) have surpassed the previous pandemic high, a government agency that tracks hospitalizations said...
