Tag Archives: Health
Flowers and teddy bears: Makeshift memorial started for 11-year-old Calgary boy
CALGARY - Calgarians journeyed Thursday to a north end park to hug, cry and honour the memory of an 11-year-old boy. A makeshift memorial for Parker has grown one flower, candle and stuffed toy at a t...
Jul 30, 2026
Quebec company banned from selling unauthorized peptides: Health Canada
Health Canada says a court has approved the agency's request to permanently ban a Quebec-based online store from selling unauthorized injectable peptides in the country. The federal agency says in a s...
Jul 29, 2026
Rookie quarterback Kaidon Salter to start for Lions against Blue Bombers
WINNIPEG - Willie Jefferson is too old and wise to fall into the rookie trap. Even though B.C. quarterback Kaidon Salter will make his first CFL start when the Blue Bombers (4-3) host the 1-5 Lions Th...
Jul 29, 2026
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment and declines to testify in Republican-led COVID-19 Senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pan...
Jul 29, 2026
UNICEF Gaza chief says Israeli destruction, restrictions squandering Canadian aid
OTTAWA - The United Nations official left to oversee not just children's welfare but also water and sanitation in the Gaza Strip is praising Canada's support for Palestinians - but warns that some of ...
Jul 28, 2026
Data shows some psychiatric patients wait days in the ER for a hospital admission. Why?
TORONTO - A patient in Alberta waited 16 days in an emergency department for a psychiatric hospital admission last year. Another in British Columbia waited just over nine days. These cases are extreme...
Jul 28, 2026
Data shows some psychiatric patients wait days in the ER for a hospital admission. Why?
TORONTO - A patient in Alberta waited 16 days in an emergency department for a psychiatric hospital admission last year. Another in British Columbia waited just over nine days. These cases are extreme...
Jul 28, 2026
The government has two definitions of disability. Advocates say it leaves people out.
OTTAWA - Advocates for people with episodic disabilities say they don't understand why the federal government has two different definitions of disability in law - and uses the narrower version to deci...
Jul 25, 2026
B.C.'s unionized nurses to end job action provincewide to review recommendations
VANCOUVER - The union representing 55,000 nurses in British Columbia has accepted a mediated proposal that could end its weeks-long strike action. The BC Nurses' Union says in a statement that its bar...
Jul 24, 2026
B.C.'s unionized nurses to end job action provincewide to review recommendations
VANCOUVER - The union representing 55,000 nurses in British Columbia has accepted a mediated proposal that could end its weeks-long strike action. The BC Nurses' Union says in a statement that its bar...
Jul 24, 2026