Alberta’s plans to regulate, oversee and evaluate its new rules that allow residents to privately pay for certain medical tests fall short and may benefit private investors over patients, health care experts warn.
The New Brunswick government says an eastern town will be the latest to get a new collaborative care clinic. Medical equipment in the emergency department at Peter Lougheed hospital is pictured in, Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Video posted by the BC Wildfire Service shows the Pear Lake wildfire as it burns over more than 600 square kilometres in B.C.'s Cariboo region. Another video shared by James Webster shows the destruction inflicted by the fire at his property outside Clinton.
Police in the Toronto area announced charges connected to an alleged human-trafficking network that spanned Ontario and Western Canada and involved a dozen victims, including one who officers said was trafficked for 15 years before she came forward.
A Halton Regional Police vehicle is shown in Oakville, Ont., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. Halton Regional police say they have arrested a woman alleged to have thrown an unknown chemical on her family member and stolen her phone last week in Milton, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Buchan
Psychiatric patients wait far longer for in-patient beds than other people. Alberta Psychiatric Association President Dr. Karen Duncalf explains the impact that can have on a patient.
At least one shot was fired outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months.
Good morning. Albertans will soon be able to self-refer and pay out-of-pocket for private diagnostic tests. More on that below, along with managing wildfires in France and Spain, and medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Care Between the Lines is a summer series, which will introduce you to volunteers in health care who fill gaps and provide compassion in a system that can be isolating and scary.
Christine Pisapia, 62 gave her brother, Serge Pisapia, 70, a kidney in 2014. Now, they volunteer together for the Kidney Transplant Ambassador Program, which recently expanded to Quebec at the Montreal General Hospital.
A video shot on Saturday, July 25, shows destruction wrought by the Pear Lake wildfire, a day after it swept towards the village of Clinton, B.C. The video shows the towing and autobody business of Steve Larabie, who says the business and two homes on the property have been lost.
Beginning Friday, Alberta will open up its diagnostic medical testing by allowing people to bypass medical referral for tests like an MRI or an ultrasound with patients paying out of pocket and a potential for reimbursement.
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