Federal government and Ontario fine-tune details of health care agreement
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will ask for more money for home care and long-term care and longer financial commitments from the...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
Poilievre criticizes Trudeau's health proposal
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre reacted today to the federal government's announcement of a potential health care funding deal with...
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Ontario to accept federal government funds
Ontario's premier and health minister say the province will accept any new health care spending and investment from the federal...
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Premiers disappointed with government's healthcare proposal
The premiers of Canada's provinces and territories have given their views on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's offer of funding to address...
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Majority of Canadians support private options for medical care
As some provinces turn to the private sector to address pressures on the health care system, a new survey suggests that more Canadians...
Feb 6, 20232 min read
Ontario health unions reject privatization of medical services
This morning representatives from Ontario Hospitals, nursing and public workers unions joined together to denounce what they called the...
Feb 2, 20231 min read
4 new cases of mpox detected in Toronto
Toronto Public Health is reminding residents at risk for mpox to get vaccinated "as soon as possible" after four new cases of the viral...
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Ontario's new "your health" provincial health plan unveiled
Ontario has launched a new health care plan that officials say aims to shorten wait times and localize access to care across the...
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Government submits bill to delay the expansion of assisted dying
The federal government is seeking to delay the extension of eligibility for assisted dying for people whose only condition is a mental...
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Ford: health care funding agreement should be reached shortly after Feb. 7
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he hopes the provinces can reach a health care agreement with the federal government soon after his...
Jan 30, 20231 min read
World "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics
The world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)...
Jan 30, 20231 min read
WHO: COVID remains an emergency
The International Health Regulations (IHR - 2005) Emergency Committee on the 2019 Coronavirus Disease Pandemic (COVID-19) met for the...
Jan 30, 20231 min read
Canadian physicians lost 18.5 million hours
A new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says Canadian physicians spend 18.5 million hours a year on unnecessary...
Jan 27, 20231 min read
WHO assesses whether COVID-19 remains a global emergency
Three years after declaring the COVID-19 pandemic a global public health threat, WHO will decide if the danger has passed. The World...
Jan 26, 20231 min read
Misinformation contributed to 2,800 deaths due to COVID-19
A new report says misinformation about COVID-19 contributed to more than 2800 Canadian deaths and at least $300 million in hospital and...
Jan 26, 20231 min read
New variant of COVID-19 gains ground
Ontario's top physician says that although COVID-19 and flu activity is declining, the province "must remain vigilant" as a more...
Jan 23, 20231 min read
FDA proposes COVID vaccine to be administered yearly
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to simplify the vaccination schedule against COVID-19 and to make the doses annual,...
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Ontario to extend study grant to paramedics
Ontario is expanding a grant that has the province pay tuition for students who enroll in some health care programs. The province's Learn...
Jan 20, 20232 min read
New variant of Omicron accounts for 7% of cases in Canada
Detections of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19 XBB.1.5 have continued to increase in Canada, but so far it does not...
Jan 18, 20231 min read
90% of Canadians survived cancer in its early stages
Canadians diagnosed with the most common cancers are more likely to survive the disease if they catch it at an earlier stage, according...
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