Manitoba’s health minister is examining why a staffing agency has little to show for itself after signing a contract to bring 150 family doctors to the province. Eight months after the …
Hospitals and long-term care homes spent nearly $1 billion last year to fill shifts with nurses and personal support workers from private staffing agencies, a Ministry of Health document estimates. …
As British Columbia attempts to entice nurses to work in rural and remote communities, some say financial incentives don’t go far enough to adequately address the ongoing nursing shortage. Christina …
Gangs attacked two upscale neighbourhoods in Haiti’s capital early Monday in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities …
With the federal budget approaching, Inuit leaders and New Democrat MPs are urging the Trudeau government to tackle tuberculosis in Indigenous communities. Inuit in particular face a “staggering and unacceptable reality” of …
The recent decision by SaltWire Network Inc., Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper company, to seek protection from its creditors is another sign of the decline of the business and the growing …
The NDP is calling on the federal government to announce a national school lunch program in the upcoming federal budget, to be released on April 16. The party says a …
Of the 306 local government units in 56 of the 77 districts surveyed for the study, 74 per cent said the springs in their municipalities had dried up, resulting in …
There are early signals that measles — one of the world’s most contagious viruses — may be quietly spreading within parts of Canada as health officials brace for more imported …
The company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion now estimates the project’s costs will come in 10 per cent higher than its May 2023 estimate of $30.9 billion. That’s according …