Category Archives: Science
Premiers push for more unconditional health-care funding from feds
OTTAWA — Canada's premiers are demanding a meeting with the newly re-elected prime minister to ask for more money — no strings attached — to pump into their health-care systems. The provincial and territorial leaders held a teleconference Thursday to ...
Ontario legislature to require proof of COVID vaccination or negative test to enter
TORONTO — People will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative rapid test result to enter Ontario's legislature next month. House Speaker Ted Arnott announced the policy in a Thursday memo to legislators and others who work at
Families sharply rebuke private Montreal care home where 47 died in COVID-19 1st wave
MONTREAL — Family members who lost loved ones at a Montreal long-term care home where 47 people died during the pandemic's first wave told a coroner's inquest Thursday that caring for society's most vulnerable should not be a for-profit exercise. Thurs...
Sad reality: Alberta top doc says COVID deaths keeping hospitals from being overrun
EDMONTON — The head of Alberta's health system says the COVID-19 hospital crisis has become so dire, a key reason the system hasn't collapsed is because patients are dying. "Each day we see a new high (total of critically ill patients),"
Nova Scotia premier pledges to expand virtual health-care network across the province
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is expanding its online virtual health-care program to ensure all Nova Scotians have access to primary care. Premier Tim Houston made the announcement Thursday, saying the program — called VirtualCareNS — has been o...
Climate change fuels California emphasis on preventing fires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Having spent billions of dollars in a losing battle to control wildfires in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday approved nearly $1 billion in new spending aimed at stopping the blazes before they start.
Providers challenge only US law banning vaccine mandates
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Medical providers and Montana residents with compromised immune systems are challenging the only law in the U.S. that prevents employers from mandating workers get vaccinated amid a surge of COVID-19 infections.
Feds need to put more cash into long-term care to legislate safety: experts
OTTAWA — Experts warn the Liberals’ promise to legislate safety in long-term care will have to come with more money if new national care standards are going to fix what’s broken in the system. The COVID-19 pandemic shone a glaring spotlight
Canada needs to share more COVID-19 surpluses with world, says UN envoy Bob Rae
OTTAWA — Canada's envoy to the United Nations says Canada needs to share more of its COVID-19 vaccine surpluses with less fortunate countries. Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the UN, told The Canadian Press on Thursday that while Canadians may have
Quebec offers bonuses up to $18,000 to keep nurses in struggling health system
QUEBEC — The Quebec government is budgeting $1 billion to offer full-time nurses bonuses of up to $18,000 as it tries to prevent more of them from leaving the public health-care system and to entice those who have left to
