Tag Archives: Health
Dental program improving, industry says, but misconceptions about 'free' care persist
OTTAWA - The rollout of the national dental care program is improving, industry representatives say - but political statements are still driving a misconception among patients that the program will co...
Sep 19, 2025
Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip clinical trial in Canada raises ethical questions
TORONTO - Some doctors and bioethicists are raising concerns about a Toronto hospital's partnership with a company founded by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk. University Health Network announced earlier th...
Sep 19, 2025
Canadian world race walk champion Evan Dunfee out of men's 20k event with injury
TOKYO - Evan Dunfee's hopes of adding another gold medal at the world athletics championships have ended after the Canadian race-walker pulled out of Saturday's men's 20-kilometre event with a hamstri...
Sep 19, 2025
Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obt...
Sep 18, 2025
Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obt...
Sep 18, 2025
B.C. man who claims he stabbed 3 on 'God's will' isn't responsible, lawyer says
VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the man accused of an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says his client had no motivation other than a direction from God to stab three people and he should be found ...
Sep 18, 2025
Training for docs coming as women wait years in pain for endometriosis diagnoses
TORONTO - Katie Luciani spent years being told that her weeklong debilitating pain every month was a "normal" part of getting her period. "My symptoms showed up when I was 11," said Luciani, who is no...
Sep 18, 2025
Alarming rise in misinformation about women's health on social media,
MONTRAL - Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills - misinformation and disinformation about women's health are spreading like wildfire on social media apps like T...
Sep 18, 2025
Quebec follows Alberta's move to stop offering COVID vaccine for free to most people
Quebec is now the second province after Alberta to announce it will no longer offer free doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population, starting this fall. The decision matches a similar poli...
Sep 18, 2025
Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...
Sep 18, 2025