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Premier Danielle Smith has followed through on her pledge to remove Dr. Deena Hinshaw from her position as Alberta’s chief medical officer of health and is hiring a familiar face to replace her. The Alberta goverrnment confirmed…

Canada is entering an influenza epidemic as cases of the flu rise further beyond the seasonal threshold, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reported Monday. The latest weekly percentage of positive influenza cases rose from…

New shipments of children’s pain medication will be available for retail purchase “in the coming weeks,” thanks to foreign supplies of the medication recently secured by Health Canada, the regulator said Monday. The shipments of…

Quebec’s college of physicians is recommending masking in public spaces amid a rise in respiratory viruses in children. In a tweet Sunday afternoon, the college pointed to overburdened pediatric emergency rooms as the reason for a…

Ontario’s Ministry of Health is instructing emergency departments to prepare for “an extreme surge” in demand. An update from the Ministry of Health Monday said plans are also in place to expand pediatric capacity to 150 per cent,…

With respiratory illnesses raging across the nation and pediatric hospitals facing increased patient volumes – all as COVID-19 continues to circulate – Canadians are being urged by a doctor to mask up to stay protected and do what…

Battered not only by the ongoing overdose crisis but also with challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, harm reduction workers across Canada are struggling with burnout, experts say. “We are going to lose a generation of harm…

The term “immunity debt” is circulating widely online as an explanation for a significant surge in respiratory illness in Canada, but infectious diseases experts say the term and the narratives around it are “dangerous” and can…

Tucked away in the basement of a nondescript midtown Toronto government building, a group of talented international medical researchers conduct their business in secret. Or so they like to joke.“I think we’ve been a bit shy about…

Health officials in northern Quebec say they are trying to hire more nurses and Inuit staff after a coroner’s report released last month linked the deaths of 10 infants in the region to overcrowding. A recruitment drive is underway…