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The Alberta government introduced bills Thursday to prohibit minors from receiving certain types of gender-affirming care, require parents be notified when a child wants to use a different name or pronoun in the classroom, and also require parents to opt-in before their children are taught about sex in class.

Social media marketing of fast food, soft drinks, chocolate and other snacks contribute to "normalizing" unhealthy eating, say Canadian researchers calling for policies to protect children and teens.

It took just one general practitioner’s sudden departure to destabilize the only obstetrics program in the 800-kilometre stretch between Timmins and Thunder Bay in northern Ontario.

More than one million Canadians have now received dental care under the new public insurance plan, with each patient receiving an average of $730 on oral health-care services.

The Ontario government says it will send a $200 rebate cheque to roughly 15 million taxpayers in the province, as well as $200 for each child in eligible families.

One of three major tobacco companies involved in years of negotiations with creditors says it opposes the proposed multi-billion-dollar settlement announced in the case earlier this month. JTI-Macdonald Corp. has filed a document with an Ontario court indicating it does not support the proposal due to "critical outstanding issues."

A personal care home in Winkler, Man., has been forced to close 26 desperately needed beds after its elevator became unstable, and petitioned the provincial government for months before Shared Health finally committed to fund the repair.

A Saint John group says the city needs to do a much better job with accessibility.

An Alberta woman was denied a medically assisted death in Vancouver this past Sunday after an injunction was granted barely 24 hours before she was scheduled to die.

Slivered onions served on McDonald's items including Quarter Pounder hamburgers were the likely source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 90 people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

Two of the major party leaders made health-care related announcements on the fourth day of Nova Scotia's provincial election campaign. Michael Gorman has the details.

The coroner’s inquest into the deaths of five inmates at the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold, Ont., heard from a senior jail official who gave jurors a peek behind the curtain and shared concerns about proposed changes. 

The province will expand the list of cancer types eligible for compensation for firefighters who get sick on the job. The changes are expected to be in place by March 2025.

Alberta is experiencing yet another COVID-19 upswing, and health experts warn it’s likely going to get worse before it gets better.

The critical shortage of nursing home beds in Manitoba means seniors are spending months in hospital waiting for a space at a personal care home, and current policy means they are paying upwards of $101 daily to live there.

While it may seem unorthodox, those behind the Heart & Hands clinic at Lakeside Academy in Montreal's Lachine borough say the location is essential to providing simpler access to care for disadvantaged families.

A facility producing plant-based milks linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak was not properly following Health Canada's policy on preventing contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Tuesday.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has warned of a possible measles exposure at airports in Vancouver, Toronto and Fredericton on Oct. 16.

The federal government has introduced legislation that would require charities providing reproductive counselling services to state clearly whether they offer abortion or abortion referrals.

An infectious disease specialist in Newfoundland and Labrador says re-establishing a mask mandate in health-care facilities is a tool to get ahead of a surge in respiratory illness — which includes a notable increase in the amount of people presenting with symptoms of pneumonia.