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Canada's senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/senate-debates-bill-to-add-warning-labels-to-alcohol-packaging/article_c2019919-3eb6-50c9-b4a8-614094b96913.html

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Senator Patrick Brazeau speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Senate on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 in Ottawa.
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Ontario declares measles outbreak over after nearly a year of spread https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-measles-outbreak-9.6933665

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Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., on Thursday, May 22, 2025.
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RSV hits infants under six months hardest, driving nearly half of hospital costs https://news.ubc.ca/2025/10/rsv-hospitalization-costs-in-canada/

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B.C.'s new law would go after vaping product companies for deceptive practices https://globalnews.ca/news/11470370/bc-new-law-vaping-product-companies-deceptive-practices/

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A New Westminster councillor is calling for more provincial regulations on vape shops. He believes there should be restrictions on where they can open and how many are allowed in an area. Grace Ke has more. – Sep 10, 2025
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8h
How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

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"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.
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High-risk Alberta newborns to start getting new RSV shot next month amid calls for wider coverage https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-rsv-baby-vaccines-9.6933321

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While the National Advisory Committee on Immunization has recommended that provinces move toward universal coverage, Alberta has opted to take a targeted approach to offering nirsevimab.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8h
Childhood vaccines safe for a little longer as CDC cancels advisory meeting https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/childhood-vaccines-safe-for-a-little-longer-as-cdc-cancels-advisory-meeting/

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US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 20, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8h
Americans' opinion of the CDC just hit a record low https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/cdc-ranking-low-rfk-trump-vaccines

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Five people a day died from drug use in B.C. over the summer https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-drug-deaths-statistics-summer-2025

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A person holds a meth pipe. Smoking drugs continued to be one of the leading methods of toxic consumption in overdose deaths in B.C. this summer.
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BC's ADHD Diagnoses Skyrocketed After 2020 https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/09/BC-ADHD-Diagnoses-Skyrocketed-Pandemic/

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Staff shortages leading to heart surgery delays and deaths, say Quebec cardiologists, surgeons https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/staff-shortage-perfusionist-deaths-quebec-waitlist-9.6932126

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The Association of Cardiologists of Quebec and the Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of Quebec say staffing shortages are causing surgery delays leading to patient deaths.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h
59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, says new poll https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5566101/kff-poll-vaccines-tylenol-rfk-jr-trump

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outside the White House on Sept. 9. A new poll finds a deep partisan divide with Republicans trusting Kennedy as much as their own doctor, but he is unpopular among Democrats and independents.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h
Liver transplant from pig: Man lived 171 days after procedure https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/a-man-in-china-lived-more-than-170-days-after-transplant-with-pig-liver-doctors-report/

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Doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhul Medical University in China transplanted a liver from a pig into a 71-year-old man in May 2024.
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Manitoba health officials confirm 9 more measles cases https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/health-measles-update-9.6932275

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There have now been 225 confirmed and 18 probable cases of measles in the province so far this year, according to Manitoba Health.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h
Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-measles-elimination-status-outbreak-vaccines/

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A nurse in London, Ont., shows visitors how to mask up at a hospital's measles screening point. Southwestern Ontario lost a child to the disease this past summer.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h
Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines amid measles epidemic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/cdc-separate-mmr-vaccines

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A health worker administers a MMR vaccine in Lubbock, Texas, in February.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h
Cape Breton woman shares breast cancer journey to help others https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/my-journeys-not-over-cape-breton-woman-shares-breast-cancer-fight-to-help-others

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Suzanne Aucoin with her children and husband at the celebration party her family held for her after she finished her chemotherapy and radiation treatments for breast cancer in July. On Suzanne's lap is her youngest child, Denver, and to her left is her oldest, Tiona. Her son, Brett, is behind her and her husband, Brian, is in the back. Contributed
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Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-congo-who-9.6932065

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The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at its headquarters in Geneva, on Nov. 22, 2017.
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B.C. bill that would have stopped doctors from providing puberty blockers defeated https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-bill-that-would-have-stopped-doctors-from-providing-puberty-blockers-defeated

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night view of the Parliament building in Victoria.
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Danielle Smith tells health ministers to improve wait times by moving non-acute patients out of hospital edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith during an announcement in Calgary in August 2025.
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10K toenail clippings needed for Canadian study on potential lung cancer risk https://globalnews.ca/news/11469664/lung-cancer-study-radon-gas-toenails-calgary/

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2 nurses fined for moving newborn in handivan, raising questions about ambulance service in rural Manitoba https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/dauphin-nurse-discipline-infant-transfer-rural-ambulance-1.7652773

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Dauphin Regional Health Centre is pictured in this file photo from March 2017. Two nurses who work here have been disciplined for using a handivan to transport a newborn from Dauphin to Winnipeg.
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Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-p... @caulfieldtim.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca

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What do you know, the ostrich farmers owe money all over Canada for the ostrich schemes of the past. They are in arrears on $250K worth of debt and their creditors find their interim payments of ostrich oil instead of actual loonies to be insufficient
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Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News
After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...
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Ontario hospitals say they're underfunded by $1 billion https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/ontario-hospitals-say-they-have-1-billion-in-funding-needs/

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The Ontario Hospital Association says hospitals had a collective deficit of $360M last year and face more pressures this year.
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