Tag Archives: Health
Toronto woman asks court for emergency relief to receive medically assisted death
TORONTO - Claire Elyse Brosseau said she hadn't been outside since January. She made an exception Monday to make her latest plea for a medically assisted death outside of the Ontario Superior Court of...
May 4, 2026
Maya Gebala's mom hopes 5th surgery on Tumbler Ridge, B.C., victim could be her last
VANCOUVER - The mother of Maya Gebala, the girl badly hurt in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., says her daughter may be having her last surgery. Cia Edmonds says in a social media post that the...
May 4, 2026
Four Canadians on cruise ship that was hit by suspected hantavirus outbreak: firm
OTTAWA - There are four Canadians on board a cruise ship where a suspected hantavirus outbreak has killed three passengers. The MV Hondius was on a polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and severa...
May 4, 2026
Auditor general reports on avian flu vaccines, First Nations funding
OTTAWA - Two federal watchdogs released five audits Monday, including probes into federal workplace accessibility and avian flu. Here are some of the highlights: Indigenous Services Canada failed to m...
May 4, 2026
Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are pro...
May 4, 2026
B.C. bats 'do not know the border' — and Trump funding cuts may put them in peril
Scientists battling a deadly infection that has killed millions of bats in North America say the tiny creatures don't care about borders, as they flit between British Columbia and Washington state. Bu...
May 4, 2026
B.C. bats 'do not know the border' — and Trump funding cuts may put them in peril
Scientists battling a deadly infection that has killed millions of bats in North America say the tiny creatures don't care about borders, as they flit between British Columbia and Washington state. Bu...
May 4, 2026
A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean killed three people, including an elderly married couple, and sickened at le...
May 3, 2026
Non-profit, union wary of federal plan to amend food inspection, pest control acts
OTTAWA - A non-profit says it's concerned about the government's plan to amend food safety laws to take food security and affordability into account, and is arguing Ottawa is prioritizing trade over t...
May 3, 2026
A court has restricted abortion access across the US by blocking mailing prescriptions to a pill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions to mifepristone. A panel of the New Orlean...
May 1, 2026