Category Archives: Health
‘My people need help:’ Nunavut MP’s report on housing decries living conditions
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A member of Parliament from Nunavut says she won't forget the smell of mould that permeated through houses she visited across the territory last year. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq travelled to communities in the Kitikmeot and Kivalliq regions in...
B.C. forest communities getting help to cope with COVID-19 pandemic: province
VICTORIA — Forests Minister Katrine Conroy says communities that depend on forestry and have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are taking on more than 180 local projects to help cope with the economic fallout. Chief Sharleen Gale of the
Nova Scotia reports four new COVID-19 cases, one of which connected to high school
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting four new cases of COVID-19 today, including one involving a high school north of Halifax. Officials say one case was identified in the eastern health region and is travel related. Two other cases are in the
New Brunswick orders ‘circuit breaker’ restrictions in northwest after COVID outbreak
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is imposing "circuit-breaker" restrictions in the northwest of the province for at least four days to contain a COVID-19 outbreak. The city of Edmundston and the upper Madawaska region, which border Quebec and Maine, were sc...
Research raises questions over delayed second vaccine doses for seniors
TORONTO — More questions are being raised about how long second shots of the COVID-19 vaccine can be delayed for seniors and other immunocompromised people. The federal body that advises how vaccines be deployed said Thursday it's reviewing a Vancouver...
Long-term care residents allowed more than one visitor in B.C. as of April 1
VICTORIA — Long-term care residents in British Columbia will soon be allowed more than one visitor and to give their loved ones a hug after more than a year of tough restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19. Provincial health officer
Highlights of the March auditor general’s reports on the pandemic and infrastructure
OTTAWA — Highlights from the federal auditor general’s reports released Thursday: Canada wasn’t ready for a pandemic Auditor Karen Hogan found that years of underfunding public health, despite the early warning from the SARS crisis in the early 2000s, ...
Highlights of the March auditor general’s reports on the pandemic and infrastructure
OTTAWA — Highlights from the federal auditor general’s reports released Thursday: Canada wasn’t ready for a pandemic Auditor Karen Hogan found that years of underfunding public health, despite the early warning from the SARS crisis in the early 2000s, ...
Federal government faces costly path to recoup wrongly paid aid, auditor says
OTTAWA — The federal auditor general says the government missed chances to flag fraudulent claims for emergency benefits last year, potentially paying money to insolvent companies, and will now have to rely on costly, years-long efforts to recoup the m...
Withered public health agency forced to scramble on COVID-19, auditor general finds
OTTAWA — A withered Public Health Agency dithered on pandemic preparedness, the federal auditor general has concluded, leaving officials no choice but to scramble to respond to COVID-19. And if such a scramble is to be avoided in future, auditor genera...