Half of Canadians referred for mental health counselling are waiting close to a month to see a professional in their community, while one in 10 are waiting up to four months, according to newly released data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information.
On the same day an inmate vaccination clinic was scheduled at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., the local public health unit declared an COVID-19 outbreak at the jail.
If you've consumed any news media in the past month, you're probably aware of the recent violence involving Israeli soldiers and Palestinian residents in Gaza and the West Bank, particularly in East Jerusalem.
Ontario’s plan to hire 27,000 more nurses and personal support workers to provide four hours of daily hands-on care for nursing home residents within four years isn’t enough to get the job done, an independent watchdog warns in a new report.
Hamilton’s public school board is planning to tap its reserve funds for up to $6 million to cut in-person elementary school class sizes this September to help keep students safe from COVID-19 and address learning gaps from the current school year.
“We’re escalating towards a full-scale war.” These were the words of Tor Wennesland, United Nations’ special coordinator for the Middle East earlier this month as he called for a de-escalation of the most recent attacks in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The staff at Healthy Body on Upper Wentworth put aside their chiropractic tables and physiotherapy equipment and donned work gloves and headed for T.B. McQueston Park on May 24 as part or their 5 Days for Good initiative.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Canada, unlike its southern neighbour, is keeping secret the details of its vaccine contracts with big pharma, including what they’re paying for doses — and experts say that’s a problem in the fight to build confidence with the public and contain vaccine hesitancy.
Hot-spot neighbourhoods in Ontario are seeing lower COVID-19 vaccination rates for seniors over 80 than neighbourhoods with lower incidence of the virus — indicating the most at-risk populations are still being missed for the vaccine.
Health Canada has issued multiple recall warnings after products at several well-known stores across the country have been pulled from shelves due to a number of concerns and hazards.
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, now a household name across the country, fought back tears while asking British Columbians to consider cancelling gatherings with older people in March last year, as the dangers associated with COVID-19 were becoming clear.
Notorious antimasker Chris Sky — legally known as Christopher Saccoccia — allegedly threatened to shoot Premier Doug Ford in the head and kill “all the premiers” in Canada, according to court documents.
The stage is set for a blitz of soon-to-expire AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots after a delay in getting vaccines to select pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex and the Kingston area for second doses — and confusion over where to book a shot.