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Tobacco giants’ creditors approve proposed $32.5B deal for health-care costs, recompense to smokers

A landmark deal that could see three major tobacco companies pay out billions to provinces, territories, and smokers across Canada…

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Canada

ELNA medical group, a major health-care provider in Quebec, enters creditor protection

ELNA Medical Group, a prominent Montreal-based company known as Canada’s largest network of medical clinics, has recently filed for creditor…

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Health

Hamilton jail nurse tells inquest some inmates released without health-care, opioid treatment plans

In a recent inquest into the drug-related deaths of six inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, nurse Zoila Guipit testified…

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Health

Pinaymootang Health Centre helps fill health-care gaps for First Nation, surrounding communities

A Manitoba First Nation is playing a crucial role in providing healthcare services not just for its own members, but…

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Politics

B.C. can sue opioid providers for health-care costs on behalf of other governments, Canada’s top court rules

Canada’s highest court has made a significant ruling that will allow British Columbia to move forward with a class-action lawsuit…

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Health

Health-care workers push for better access to frostbite treatment popularized in Yukon

A new coalition of Canadian health-care workers is on a mission to transform frostbite care in Canada by promoting an…

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Health

Most Canadians have a health-care provider but access is a work in progress, report suggests

Most Canadian adults, 83 per cent, say they have access to a regular family doctor or nurse practitioner, according to…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. quadruples housing development fund, approves its use for health-care facility loan

Opposition leaders are criticizing a move by the Nova Scotia government that quadruples the borrowing limit for the housing development…

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Canada

Ottawa woman calling for health-care reform in N.B. after husband died on vacation

An Ontario woman whose husband died in a New Brunswick hospital while on vacation is urging Canadians to advocate for…

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Health

Why Canada’s health-care system needs more Indigenous professionals

The Current18:54Indigenous life expectancy is dropping. How do we fix it? When Dr. Danièle Behn Smith first saw the data…

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