Canada's emergency rooms

Canadians may want to ask themselves why provinces are demanding more money from Ottawa in health transfers, while they simultaneously “turn around and give tax breaks to the wealthiest,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. He…

As flu season approaches in Canada, officials at children’s hospitals across the country say they are “gravely worried” about how an influx of children with influenza, COVID-19 or other viruses could exacerbate challenges within an…

Kevin Dickson treats dozens of patients a day in the emergency department of the Dr. Everett Chalmers hospital in Fredericton. He does physical exams, takes medical histories, develops treatment plans and discharges patients.But…

The federal government has appointed a new national chief nursing officer, reinstating a position that aims to bring more perspectives from nurses to federal health-care policy discussions and decision-making. Leigh Chapman has been…

Burnt out from over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers across Canada are grappling with emergency rooms flooded with patients amid a summer surge of illnesses. Some children’s hospitals in the country are running…