Health

On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics

More than five years after she was expelled from caucus in the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott…

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B.C. minister added to decriminalization court challenge

Canada’s Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia’s minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge…

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B.C. doctor calls for northern psychiatric hospital

A B.C. doctor is calling for a psychiatric hospital to be established in northern B.C. because she says long-term, secure…

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Masking returns to Laval hospitals as COVID-19 cases increase across Quebec

The regional health board overseeing Laval, north of Montreal, re-introduced masking across its facilities Friday in response to an increase…

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Thunder Bay’s safe drug use site ‘not just a place to come get high,’ says client amid Ontario closure fallout

For years, Michael Baker has been a client at Path 525, the only safe drug consumption site in Thunder Bay, Ont., and…

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Baby in Gaza suffering paralysis from polio virus, World Health Organization says

A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in…

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Patient at centre of ex-London, Ont., dentist’s misconduct case files $2.15M suit alleging abuse

WARNING: This story references actions deemed as sexual abuse by the dental profession’s regulatory college. A former London, Ont. dentist whose licence was…

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These parents turned agony of losing daughters to intimate partner violence into missions to help others

WARNING: This story contains discussion of intimate partner violence. Brett Broadfoot never imagined fighting against intimate partner violence would become such…

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Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in medical student dreams of offering ‘culturally safe care’

The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation has had its own health-care practices since time immemorial, but soon, it will also have…

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Whooping cough outbreak declared across New Brunswick

New Brunswick has declared a provincewide whooping cough outbreak, two months after an outbreak was initially declared on the Acadian…

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