Category Archives: Health
Ontario reports 19 more COVID-19 deaths while hospitalizations and ICU cases drop
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 1,056 COVID-19-related hospitalizations and in the province today along with 324 patients in intensive care. That's 135 fewer patients in hospital compared to numbers reported on Saturday. Health authorities are also repo...
Physician assistants could fill part of B.C.’s need for more doctors: advocates
VANCOUVER — Joanna Chan wants to come back to British Columbia to work as a physician assistant and she's not alone. The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants says a recent survey of its 800 members indicated 15 per cent want to
Police lay hundreds of charges in Ottawa blockades as city begins clean-up process
OTTAWA — Silence and calm reigned on the streets of Ottawa for the first time in more than three weeks on Sunday as police continued their efforts to put a final end to anti-government demonstrations that immobilized the national capital. Roadways
UK: People with COVID in England won’t need to self-isolate
LONDON (AP) — People with COVID-19 won't be legally required to self-isolate in England starting in the coming week, the U.K. government has announced, as part of a plan for “living with COVID” that is also likely to see testing
Quebec reporting six COVID-19 deaths. 45-patient drop in hospitalizations
MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting six further deaths attributed to COVID-19 and a 45-patient drop in hospitalizations today. The Health Department says 1,789 patients are currently in hospital, with 120 of those listed in intensive care, an increase of on...
The latest on protests against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa and beyond
The latest developments on ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in Ottawa and various locations across Canada, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. All times eastern: 11:45 p.m. The Pacific Highway borde...
Income-tax phaseout up for debate in long-poor Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is accustomed to being first in worsts: It's one of the poorest, unhealthiest states in the nation, with public schools that are chronically underfunded. Some Republican leaders say a good way to boost the state's
Ottawa police push ahead to end protest as bail hearings for organizers move forward
OTTAWA — Police officers donned helmets, wielded batons and deployed pepper spray in downtown Ottawa on Saturday as they tried to clear out protesters putting up what the city's interim police chief described as a "barrage of resistance" to ending
Quebec health system unprepared to handle Omicron-fuelled long COVID cases
Montrealer Claudia Hébert says she started to feel extreme fatigue and to get fevers three weeks after returning from Senegal in March 2020, with only a few months left to a complete her Université de Montréal veterinary medicine program. Some symptom...
Scale up B.C. drug-checking programs to save lives: centre on substance use
VANCOUVER — Checking illicit drugs for deadly toxins is the best option to prevent fatal overdoses without a safer supply, but that service should be expanded to rural and remote communities in British Columbia, says the manager of a drug-checking
