Health

Canadians at risk of severe illness due to COVID-19 are being advised to get an additional booster dose this spring.

TORONTO — Contract talks between nurses and the Ontario Hospital Association have broken down and will now head to arbitration, the nurses' union said Friday.

TORONTO — Ontario is expanding workplace coverage of cancers for firefighters. Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton says pancreatic and thyroid cancers in firefighters will now be presumed to be work related.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Walgreens on Thursday said it won't sell an abortion pill by mail in 20 conservative-led states.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawmakers advanced a measure to limit where people can get abortions in Utah, banning abortion clinics and effectively requiring they only be provided in hospitals.

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government is predicting a $48.2-million surplus in 2023 with a budget promising cash for housing, health care, infrastructure and inflation relief.

LANGLEY, B.C. — British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is "astonished" that Health Canada has granted a cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine. Adastra Labs in Langley, B.C.

TORONTO — A new Kids Help Phone fundraising campaign that aims to expand online mental health services is getting a boost from some big names in music.

CALGARY — A Calgary woman says she can finally look forward to the future after a judge granted an interim injunction Thursday that allows her to continue taking a potent opioid three times a day.

PHOENIX (AP) — The medical director of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in metro Phoenix has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that concluded abortion doctors couldn’t be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that bans