Working three full-time jobs, raising kids and tending her blooming garden: Angeleta Cox says her mother, Sonia Elizabeth Cox, never really slowed down all her life. Then, at the age of 64, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s slammed the brakes on the vibrant life she’d painstakingly built after immigrating to Canada from Jamaica in 1985. “The…
From fireproofing the areas surrounding your home to putting a pet alert decal in your window, experts say there are things you can do in advance to prepare for an emergency evacuation due to wildfires. More than 26,400 people in Saskatchewan have been evacuated due to wildfires so far in 2025, according to numbers provided by the…
Monica Seles first noticed the symptoms of myasthenia gravis — a neuromuscular autoimmune disease she discussed during a recent interview with The Associated Press — while she was swinging a racket the way she’d done so many times during, and after, a career that included nine Grand Slam titles and a place in the International…
With at least one death reported since Sunday, Montreal Public Health is urging people to keep an eye out for heat-related symptoms even once heat dissipates. A spokesperson for Montreal Public Health, Tudor Matei, said the agency has been notified of five other heat-related deaths this year, after temperatures soared in late June. The health…
Frustrated by overwhelming paperwork that eats into their time with patients, some doctors in Quebec have been turning to artificial intelligence tools to streamline the transcription of their medical notes during consultations. Now, Santé Québec, the Crown corporation that oversees the province’s health-care network, is planning to launch a pilot project to look into these technologies with the…
A staffing agency hired by Manitoba’s former Progressive Conservative government on a promise to recruit 150 doctors to the province in fact only managed to bring two. The two-year contract with Canadian Health Labs was initially hailed as a critical piece in Manitoba’s efforts to find more doctors, particularly in rural and northern areas, where jobs are typically harder to fill….
A record number of Albertans are donating organs or tissues — a milestone that has saved hundreds of lives, advocates and doctors say. Give Life Alberta reported that 317 people who died in 2024 donated organs or tissues. That’s up from 273 donors in 2023, and 248 in 2022. It comes as medical teams work to increase awareness….
Ontario failed to meet its legislated target for getting long-term care residents an average of four hours a day of direct care by March of this year, the government concedes, though it came quite close. The Progressive Conservative government set the target aimed at boosting both the amount of direct care residents receive from nurses…
CEO Pat Parfrey was one of four Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services officials who appeared at the House of Assembly’s public accounts committee on Tuesday afternoon. (Ted Dillon/CBC) Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services expects to soon have a comprehensive review done on payments made to a travel nursing agency cited in a recent bombshell report…
