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Canadian actor Pamela Anderson is opening up about being diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late 1990s. “It was a…

Hamilton and Niagara each confirmed a first human West Nile case this week. A daytime-biting mosquito found in Niagara in August complicates the advice.

Ottawa has publicly named about $213 million of its $500-million Youth Mental Health Fund. Totalling it requires three separate government pages.

Online harms ranked as the number one threat facing children in Canada for the first time since 2018, according to Raising Canada 2026, released Sept. 8 by Children First Canada. The report asks Parliament to pass Bill C-34 before year-end, but the bill has not yet cleared second reading.

Health Canada is proposing to move generic drugs manufactured in Canada earlier in its regulatory review queue, with public comments closing Friday, Sept. 12, 2026. The pilot would change only the order in which submissions are picked up for review, not the scientific standards, the filing dates or the decision itself.

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.

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.