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Montrealer vows to continue hunger strike for ‘X’ gender on Quebec health card
Non-binary Montrealer Alexe Frédéric Migneault, shown in Quebec City on Tuesday, Nov.21, 2023, is on day six of a hunger strike to pressure Quebec's public health insurance board to add a third gender option to its health cards.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Manitoba government to hire more staff to speed up hospital discharge times
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew greets Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara at a swearing-in ceremony in Winnipeg, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Manitoba government is recruiting more staff to speed up discharge times in hospital emergency departments. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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We must protect the most vulnerable Canadians from the risks of influenza
Brian Conway
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New University of Toronto medical school to address shortage of health care professionals in Scarborough
A rendering of the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health. The building harnesses natural energy using solar cladding panels (building-integrated photovoltaics) on three of the building’s four sides (plus standard photovoltaics on the roof).
world
Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96
(FILES) Former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of former US President Jimmy Carter, speaks during a US Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 26, 2011. Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter died at age 96 at her home in Georgia, the couple's non-profit organization announced on November 19, 2023. (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Western Canada: Alberta’s first steps in overhauling health-care delivery
Medical tools are pictured in an exam room at a health clinic in Calgary, Friday, July 14, 2023.
opinion
For the sake of the wider economy, we need paid sick days
Claude Lavoie
alberta
Top Alberta health executives let go as system rebuild begins
Adriana LaGrange, minister of health, speaks about health-care reforms as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on during a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday Nov. 8, 2023. The board of Alberta Health Services says six of the organization's top executives are no longer in their positions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
world
Rosalynn Carter, 96-year-old former First Lady, is in hospice care at home, Carter Center says
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife former first lady Rosalynn Carter sit together during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga. Rosalynn Carter, the 96-year-old former first lady, is in hospice care at home, the Carter Center says. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)
health & fitness
Want to set your kids up for success? Work out with them
Bomb fitness Brand . photos sent by Bomb Fitness, for this column in Nov 18th Pursuits section about why you should workout with your kids:
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Eight cases of salmonella linked to imported cantaloupes in B.C.
An operator of a fruit and vegetable stand near Denver holds a cantaloupe for sale on Sept. 16, 2011. British Columbia's Centre for Disease Control says there have been eight confirmed cases of a rare strain of Salmonella in the province since mid-November. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ed Andrieski
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Social workers and paramedics team up to offer alternative to ERs for mental health calls in Ottawa
Geoffrey Smith, left, Primary Care Paramedic at the Ottawa Paramedic Service (OPS) hands fellow Mental Wellbeing Response Team (MWRT) team member, Cindy Gill, Social Worker at The Ottawa Hospital, a tablet known as the 'FATPOT' used to monitor 9-1-1 paramedic dispatch calls in Ottawa, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail
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Saskatchewan announces plan to address overcrowding, staffing at hospitals
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says it's taking immediate steps to address pressures inflicting hospitals in the province's largest city. Saskatchewan's provincial flag flies in Ottawa on July 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
opinion
Is Danielle Smith’s overhaul of Alberta health care restructuring or revenge?
André Picard
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Western Canada: Danielle Smith’s plan to overhaul Alberta’s health care system
Adriana LaGrange, minister of health, speaks about health-care reforms as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on during a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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What to know about flu and COVID vaccines as respiratory virus season begins
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Active case of tuberculosis detected at University of Victoria
The University of Victoria says an active case of tuberculosis has been discovered on campus. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria is shown in a 2006 high magnification scanning electron micrograph image. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CDC-Janice Carr
alberta
Danielle Smith’s health care overhaul strips Alberta Health Services of policy-powers
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks about reforms in Alberta healthcare, in Edmonton Alberta, on Wednesday November 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.
alberta
Alberta announces new health delivery system, promises to try to protect jobs
Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Health, speaks about healthcare reforms as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on during a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday November 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta government to overhaul health care delivery
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith listens to the throne speech delivered by Lt.-Gov Salma Lakhani in Edmonton on Monday October 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta health minister says fundamental change needed as system is ‘not working’
Alberta Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange speaks to the media in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. She says says the Alberta government is fundamentally restructuring health care because the system "is not working." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
hockey
Another ex-player is alleging Blackhawks’ former video coach sexually assaulted him in 2009-10
Former Chicago Blackhawks trainer Brad Aldrich’s name, etched on a replica of the Stanley Cup, is photographed in the Hockey Hall of Fame, in Toronto, on Friday, October 29, 2021. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
alberta
Alberta gives cabinet more power over public health decisions
Minister of Justice Mickey Amery is sworn into cabinet, in Edmonton, Friday, June 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.
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‘Political preferences’ played role in N.B. COVID-19 decisions, says top medical officer
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and Dr. Jennifer Russell, N.B. chief medical officer of health, take a selfie in Fredericton, Friday, June 4, 2021. Russell says "political preferences" played a role in the decisions that were made around COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
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B.C. rejects coroner panel’s call to expand access to safer-supply program
A person receives a tested supply of cocaine after gathering to remember those who died from a suspected illicit drug overdose, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. Advocates say while the early findings on safe supply programs are promising, those programs are still not meeting the needs of a large share of Canadians who are at risk of drug poisoning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Health professionals, not police should care for intoxicated prisoners, B.C. watchdog says
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Ontario offers flu shots, COVID-19 vaccines for all over six months as of Monday
<div>People in Ontario who are six months and older will be able to receive their free flu shot and the new COVID-19 vaccine starting on Monday. Pediatric doses of Moderna's Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine are seen a clinic in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang</div>
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Doctors say we need the updated COVID-19 shot. So why haven’t we heard more about it?
Doctors say it's important to get the updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine, which offers protection against the XBB.1.5 subvariant driving a current rise in cases. A pharmacist prepares to administer a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Melissa Phillip-Houston Chronicle via AP
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Western Canada: Alberta on the hook for children’s medication that may never arrive
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith addresses the children’s medication shortage in Edmonton, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. The province has secured five million bottles of children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen for Alberta families. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
young money
Fixing the affordability crisis in Canada is key to fixing medical care
Paul Kershaw
alberta
Alberta on the hook for tens of millions for children’s medication that may never arrive
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gives the state of the province address in Edmonton on Wednesday October 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Fransson
health & fitness
The sprint to sobriety: Is athletic culture going alcohol-free?
Athletic Brewery non alcoholic beer mile in Toronto on August 19, 2023. Blacktoe running group drinking non-alcoholic drinks from Athletic Brewing
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One in four Ontarians may be without a family doctor by 2026, analysis says
The Ontario Medical Association says a shortage of family doctors in the province is only going to get worse if burnout and growing administrative burdens are not addressed. A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Illinois, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jeff Roberson
technology
Dozens of U.S. states sue Meta, claiming its social platforms are addictive, harm children’s mental health
FILE - Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on, Oct. 28, 2021. U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)
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Rollout of updated COVID-19 vaccines confusing, experts say
A Toronto Public Health nurse draws a Pfizer dose into a syringe, at a Toronto vaccination clinic e on Feb 3 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. The clinic was held at a TCHC residence in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood.