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Health Canada wants Canadian-made generic drugs reviewed sooner. The public comment window closes Friday, and the pilot is narrower than it sounds.

Health Canada’s pilot to move Canadian-made generic drug applications up the review queue closes to public comment Sept. 12. Packaging plants won’t qualify.

As Canadian students return to the classroom, some have to plan how to deal not just with school work but…

Ottawa issued 3,500 permanent residence invitations to health and social services workers on Sept. 4. Provincial licensing, not immigration, is the slow step.

A one-time $150 payment to Canada Disability Benefit recipients started Sept. 1. It reimburses the doctor’s fee only for people who already cleared the DTC gate.

Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August while health-care hiring in Alberta and Ontario kept growing. CIHI wait-time data shows patients are not yet feeling it.

B.C. has no active measles cases as students return to class, but the B.C. Centre for Disease Control sequenced a genetically distinct strain after a cluster of 11 cases in the province’s northeast in July and August. That matters because Canada’s measles elimination status, lost on Nov. 10, 2025, is tracked by virus strain rather than case count: the country regains it only once transmission of the original outbreak strain is interrupted for at least 12 months. Neither PHAC nor PAHO has published the date that clock started, so widely repeated late-2027 timelines are inference rather than an official figure.

Health Canada’s new Controlled Substances Regulations take effect Oct. 1, letting pharmacists substitute controlled drugs during shortages — but not in Ontario.

Canada’s chief public health officer cited an 85% national measles vaccination rate. In Alberta’s south zone and northeast B.C., local coverage runs near 60%.

Quebec’s first-ever raccoon rabies case in a cat caps a stunning resurgence — from 93 cases in 2025 to 171 so far in 2026, two decades after the province thought it had eliminated the disease.