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Healthy meals for kids, savings for Ontario families
GREATER TORONTO AREA, ON, Nov. 22, 2024 – School food programs make life easier. They provide healthy meals to kids throughout the school year. They also save working families hundreds of dollars in grocery bills. The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced an agreement with the Government of Ontario to increase school food programs in […]
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The Prince Rupert gas pipeline doesn’t pass today’s health standards – National Observer
November 22, 2024 On November 25, B.C.’s environmental assessment (EA) commission will rule on whether an environmental assessment certificate issued a decade ago for construction of the Prince Rupert Gas pipeline, should require a new, updated EA certificate before proceeding. The project proposes construction of an 800-kilometre pipeline to transport gas from northeast B.C. to the […]
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Mid Island-Pacific Rim MLA Josie Osborne up for the challenge as new health minister – Alberni Valley News
November 22, 2024 Premier David Eby unveiled his new cabinet on Nov. 18, 2024 Mid Island-Pacific Rim MLA Josie Osborne is taking on one of the most complex portfolios in the provincial government as British Columbia’s new Minister of Health. But the former Tofino mayor, who is entering her second term in the B.C. legislature, […]
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Ontario Expanding Cancer Coverage for Firefighters
November 22, 2024 HAMILTON – The Ontario government will soon introduce legislation that, if passed, will expand presumptive coverage for firefighters in the case of primary-site kidney cancer by reducing the required duration of service from 20 to 10 years, which would be the lowest duration of service in Canada. The province will also propose […]
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She thought her children just had a cough or fever. A mother shares sons’ experience with walking pneumonia – CTV
Nov. 22, 2024 Victoria Marton says she initially thought her 11-year-old son just had a normal cough. Aston got sick with a cough for about a half-week, around mid-October, but it seemed to be getting worse, said the 40-year-old mother from Richmond, Ont. “It was kind of like a barking cough, like it didn’t sound […]
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More than 70K Murphy beds recalled across Canada, U.S. over tipping concerns – CTV
Nov. 22, 2024 A popular series of Murphy beds that had been sold online is under a recall in Canada and the U.S. after several reported instances of the furniture detaching from walls. In its consumer recall notice, Health Canada says, “The beds can become detached from the wall and fall, posing a tip-over and […]
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Young people get health advice from social media. But can they tell good information from bad? – CBC
Students need ‘tools … to critically appraise what they’re seeing online,’ says doctor Nov 22, 2024 Could sunscreen be bad for you? Can kitchen ingredients cure an STI? Students go online to search out all manner of information — including health and wellness advice — but face an overwhelming landscape often full of myths and […]
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Yao raises drug use concerns about Tawâw denied by RMWB, Indigenous leaders – Fort McMurray Today
Nov 21, 2024 UCP MLA Tany Yao says RMWB officials have also raised concerns about drug use at Tawâw Mayor Sandy Bowman denied this in a letter to Premier Danielle Smith. UCP MLA Tany Yao says he has heard concerns about drug abuse at Tawâw, a supportive housing program focusing on chronically homeless Indigenous people […]
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His son’s brain was damaged by E. coli. Now someone is exploiting their story to sell a questionable product – CBC
Amazing Water’s food sanitizer emitted dangerous levels of ozone in Marketplace test Nov 22, 2024 It’s lunchtime in the Parker home in Richmond, B.C. But before eight-year-old Lucas can be fed, his dad checks the boy’s blood sugar levels. Nathan Parker figures out the dosages for his son’s medications and fills a small plastic bag […]
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Detection of MSX and Dermo in oysters in New Brunswick
From: Canadian Food Inspection Agency November 21, 2024 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of two oyster diseases in samples collected in Spence Cove, New Brunswick. The first, multinucleate sphere unknown (MSX) is caused by Haplosporidium nelsoni. The second, Dermo (also known as Perkinsosis), is caused by Perkinsus marinus. MSX and […]
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