Northern Health says "unavoidable staffing challenges" caused multiple ER closures over the week of Christmas, and nearly resulted in a double closure in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek.

A man who has been in hospital for more than a decade is hoping a new Ontario home care program could see him live on his own.

The country's highest court says climate change is "a pressing concern" when it comes to oil exploration - but Shane Jones says it must not triumph over energy security.

With emergency room closures becoming more prevalent across rural Alberta, residents are unsure if or when these problems will be solved. Killam Mayor Richard Krys hopes to see something done.

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

Environment Canada figures show the mercury hit 41.3 C on Monday in the Fraser Canyon community, marking the hottest temperature of 2025 in Canada.

Rural ERs Are Not “Glorified Walk-in Clinics”: SRPC Responds to Globe and Mail Column On July 8, 2025, Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard published a piece titled “Should Every Small-Town Ho...

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Dr. Fraser MacKay, an ER doctor and a member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, says staff shortages affect doctors' decisions on how much and how long to work. He tells BC Today hos...

The blame lies squarely with Legault’s cure for the health system: It’s only worsening the prognosis, new statistics show.

Social Development has agreed to put hospital patients ahead of the line for vacant nursing home beds for the next 30 days. The CEO of Horizon sees no other option to relieve the stress on some surgic...

The head of emergency medicine for Alberta's doctors association is challenging Premier Danielle Smith to join him on shift to see the frustration of patients jammed for hours in hallways and the…

Health care workers say virtual ERs can fill in some gaps, but don’t make up for doctor shortage