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Ontario's labour minister gave a long-awaited apology Wednesday afternoon to mine workers who were exposed to McIntyre Powder for over three decades and their families.

Parents and advocates for children with disabilities other than autism are demanding support for their families after the B.C. government scrapped plans to overhaul its autism funding model.

And aging population and the strees of managing the pandemic saw the ranks of Canada's health care workers swell by 204,000 between 2016 and 2021 according to newly released census numbers.

A Regina man is angry after learning he, his wife and about a dozen others were recently injected with expired COVID-19 vaccines.

Ontario's auditor general is set to release her annual report Wednesday, including audits on COVID-19-related contracts and procurement, as well as the province's vaccination program.

Health officials are working on plans to redeploy staff, if needed, as Alberta Children's Hospital struggles to keep up with ballooning demand.

An Ontario court has struck down a law that limited wages for public sector workers.

P.E.I. has a number of systems in place to detect people unsafe to drive because of dementia, and is not planning on introducing some of the heavier measures in place in other provinces.

At the outbreak of the pandemic, China set out "zero-COVID" measures that were harsh, but not out of line with other countries. While most other countries saw the regulations as temporary until vaccines were available, China has stuck steadfastly to its strategy. Here are some of their regulations.

The province has announced the dean that will lead a new medical school at Simon Fraser University.

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.

B.C. Premier David Eby and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced several new measures to attract more doctors to the province Sunday. Over one million people in British Columbia don't have a family doctor and the health care system is dealing with ongoing staff shortages.

Anyone diagnosed with dementia will eventually have to make the decision whether it is safe for them to continue driving, but that inevitability doesn’t make the decision any easier.

The Rowan Tree Collective is a privately funded non-profit that offers a space for young adults with autism and other exceptionalities to grow, socialize and learn outside of the standard post-secondary education and job settings.

About 1.2 million Quebecers are without a family doctor. The province wants them to know about a new phone and online service that will provide them with medical advice and, if necessary, book an appointment with a general practitioner.

Food banks started in Canada in the early 1980s as a temporary response to the recession. Over 40 years later, they're more important than ever, with a new report by Feed Ontario saying the number of people seeking help and the number of visits are only rising.

Connect-Clinic offers hormone therapy and surgery referrals for transgender and gender-diverse people across Ontario through virtual appointments. As of next month, it will no longer accept new patients due to changes in Ontario's funding agreement with doctors.

Doctors in Kyiv were performing open-heart surgery on a 14-year-old boy Wednesday when the lights suddenly flickered off.

An emergency room physician is among front-line workers calling for more shelter space and the collection of data after seeing more amputations in Edmonton's homeless community.

The federal government is extending employment insurance sickness benefits to 26 weeks, up from 15 weeks, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough announced on Friday.

Parents and health-care experts are speaking out after learning a round-the clock online pediatric service that's helped keep sick children out of overflowing Ontario hospitals will no longer be free starting Dec. 1. 

A new mRNA vaccine targeting all known flu strains in a single shot is showing early promise in animal studies and is opening the door to a wide range of possibilities with the vaccine technology — including potentially preventing the next influenza pandemic. 

The Canadian Paediatric Society has ditched setting firm time limits for screen use among toddlers and preschoolers, encouraging instead that parents prioritize educational, interactive and age-appropriate material.

An Ontario lending program that provides medical equipment for patients with complex needs and helps free up hospital beds is struggling to keep up with this autumn's demand.

There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease, the World Health Organization and U.S. CDC say.

With respiratory infections hitting the health system hard, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Wednesday that more children need to get their COVID-19 and influenza shots to help tamp down on surging hospital admissions.

In the wake of news that three Ontario children's hospitals have cancelled surgeries, dozens of parents are sharing their stories about how the onslaught of viruses this fall has affected their families, and question whether enough is being done to address the "crisis" in care.

Earlier this year the CAQ government forced some part-time nurses to start working full-time, prompting some to quit. Now health minister Christian Dubé says the measure didn't work out as well as he'd hoped, and he's open to change.

The head of Windsor Regional Hospital says that fining patients for remaining in their hospital beds rather than going to a designated long-term care facility will only come after several steps are taken.

Prairie provinces have the worst rates of positive flu tests, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Two Université Laval students are living in a Quebec City seniors’ residence as part of an intergenerational cohabitation program.

An Alberta paramedic who responded to a car crash not knowing her own daughter was the victim says she’s remembering the teenager as a creative, fierce “firecracker.” 

When Dr. Omid Pour-Ahmadi arrives each day at the SantiMed Family and Walk-In Clinic in northeast Calgary, he’s greeted by a line-up of patients – and some of them have been waiting for hours.

Jeannette Rogers believes if there was a sobering centre in Halifax, her son may be alive today.

Nunavut and Canada’s most populous province have agreed to take part in a federal initiative to ensure the viability of Canada’s organ and tissue donation system. 

Health-care advocates say they are preparing a possible constitutional challenge to an Ontario law that allows some discharged elderly hospital patients to be forced into a nursing home they did not choose.

Premier David Eby has announced a range of new measures related to public safety in B.C. communities, in one of his first major policy announcements since taking office.

Western University in London, Ont., is building a state-of-the-art laboratory where researchers will pre-emptively create new vaccines, tactics and materials in order to fight a wide range of existing and emergent viral threats.

Infectious disease experts say B.C.'s decision to not count COVID-19 reinfections in weekly case updates may be painting an incomplete picture of the impact of the disease on British Columbians.

The "stay home when sick" message came before "mask up" to prevent spread early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that flu and other viruses have joined the mix, the original advice holds true more than ever, some Canadian doctors say.

As Canada and other wealthy countries scramble to hire nurses from overseas, there are growing concerns that the exodus of health-care workers from developing countries will push their stretched medical systems closer to a crisis point.

Maria Volk shares a raw account of how she fell into addiction over the grief of losing her brother and what it took to find the strength to recover.

Canada is importing a million bottles of foreign-produced children's pain and fever medication to help ease a months-long shortage, with products expected to begin arriving on store shelves next week, federal officials announced on Friday.

Dr. Yifei Shi, 35, admits that in 2016 she defrauded the Alberta government of $827,077 through false billings. The family physician has been ordered to repay Alberta Health and serve a four-year prison term.

A B.C. judge has found a Chilliwack pastor "liable" for holding a worship service in breach of the province's old COVID-19 orders — but a conviction for a $2,300 ticket won't be entered until the court has considered a constitutional challenge. 

The first stage of the Canada Dental Benefit officially became law Thursday night after Bill C-31 passed its final reading in the Senate and received royal assent from Governor General Mary Simon.

There may be fewer COVID-related restrictions in place this winter that limit social interactions, but that doesn't mean there are fewer concerns among some seniors who worry that returning to normal indoor gatherings may put their health at risk.

Saskatchewan is facing a provincewide shortage of ambulances, as well as long wait times for EMS responses, according to the province's largest health-care union. It's having a major affect on the mental health of paramedics.

A U.S. federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones repeated Thursday that the government was prepared for a surge in respiratory illnesses in children this fall, as hospitals struggle with unprecedented demand for care made more challenging by continued staffing shortages.