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A drug alert was issued for Regina after three people died from suspected overdoses on Saturday, the ministry of health said. The alert will be in effect for one week.

The Ford government listed the expense under "other payments" with little information on the scope of the contract or what services were provided.

Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry statistics show that the country now has 107,677 centenarians, up 7,914 from the previous year. 88 per cent of them are women.

Hamilton Health Sciences is planning to eliminate more than 400 jobs, a move it is directly tying to provincial marching orders to balance budgets.

The government has opened an investigation, and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the Health Ministry’s highest civil servant to be removed from office.

Affected animals include hippos, elephants, buffalo and a crocodile, all of which died after consuming the toxic, naturally occurring bacteria.

Between May 1 and July 21, the province recorded 140 cases of cyclosporiasis, compared with just 40 in the same time period in 2025. 

Neighbours of a cancelled overdose prevention site in Vancouver say they’re concerned about ad hoc harm reduction services appearing outside the vacant building.

The Canadian government announced a three-week quarantine for travellers returning from the Ebola-stricken country back in May, affecting aid workers like Lily-Madeleine Seguin.

Saskatchewan's health ministry says its recruitment campaign to attract international healthcare workers brought over 7,500 workers to the province over the last four years.

Requests via text in the evening and overnight hours are 183 per cent higher than those received during the day, Kids Help Phone said.

The 'escalation in cases and severity of intervention required' from Friday to Monday prompted the ministry to issue the advisory.

Other candidates for the WHO head position who have been announced include Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al-Kuwari of Qatar, Dr. Hanan Balkhy of Saudi Arabia and Dr. Hans Kluge of Belgium.

The tests will help rapidly reduce the time it takes for women to be told whether they have the condition, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Data shows how much money Ontario spends every year from its "homes in distress" fund, a pot set aside for long-term care operations on the brink of collapse.

Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have been in one of the affected countries need to quarantine for 21 days upon their return to Canada.

Rae Seidel worked as a Child and Caregiver Support Worker until just over a year ago when she decided to leave due to working conditions.

The NDP says the case of Chelsea Bear, a mom pregnant with twins who died with one of the babies after seeking care in Meadow Lake, was failed by the rural health-care system.

The province is still working to bring the pieces together that will take the compassionate interventon act from a law on the books to a system practiced in Saskatchewan.

A Quebec doctor says health-care professionals would be 'optimistically naive' to believe cases of cyclosporiasis won’t keep increasing, but there is no reason for alarm.