Health

BOSTON (AP) — A man who presents himself as a Orthodox Christian monk and an attorney he lived with fraudulently obtained $3.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith has made the province an international embarrassment by proclaiming those who didn’t get vaccinated during COVID-19 endured the worst discrimination she's seen in her lifetime.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former official at Yale University’s medical school was sentenced Thursday to more than nine years in prison for carrying out a $40 million scam involving computers and other electronics.

VICTORIA — Unions representing care aides, lab assistants and cleaning staff have reached a new labour agreement with health employers in B.C. The B.C.

OTTAWA — As public hearings begin into the federal government's first use of the Emergencies Act legislation, inquiry commission lawyers have prepared a rough timeline of the events that led up to the historic invocation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter .

TORONTO — COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise, the flu season is on the horizon and many other respiratory viruses are circulating again, Ontario's top doctor said Thursday as he warned the coming months could be tough.

OTTAWA — A 58-year-old Ontario man is facing charges under a new law against intimidating a health-care worker.

The Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center announced a $710 million gift from the Bezos family, the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years.

EDMONTON — The Alberta Review Board says a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed five young people at a Calgary house party remains a significant risk to public safety but will continue to be granted some freedoms as his treatment continues.