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Shana Holloran and Alexander Grant have watched their child turn blue more than any parent ever should. Their young daughter, Charlotte, has epilepsy and regularly suffers from different types of seizures. On a good day, she has 20 to 50 seizures. On other days, she can have more than 150. …
Read More »New diagnostic equipment to improve patient care in North Okanagan
A new multi-million dollar state-of-the-art CT scanner at Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH) is expected to increase access to timely diagnoses and treatments in B.C.’s North Okanagan. “There isn’t a single area of medicine that CT scans are not used … in neurology for strokes and emergency for strokes and trauma …
Read More »Meet an Ontario family who say they’re out of options for child care
Megan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation because of her daughter’s school zone. “I can put her in school, but I’d…lose my job because there is no before-and-after-school care available at the …
Read More »Marineland guilty of charges over its care of 3 young black bears
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 7, 2024 1:14 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Marineland has been found guilty under Ontario’s animal cruelty laws of three charges related to its care of three black bears. A court found the Niagara Falls, Ont., …
Read More »Nunavut kids in care face loneliness, despair as millions spent to send them south
Iqaluit, Nunavut — Connie MacIntosh was working as a social service worker in Pond Inlet, a tiny hamlet in Nunavut, when her phone rang. On the line was a representative from a company operating group homes for youth in southern Ontario, more than 3,000 kilometres away. She said the caller …
Read More »Nova Scotia budget expected to focus on health care, cost of living – Halifax
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 29, 2024 8:36 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government will today table its third budget since being elected in August 2021. The past two budgets have focused heavily on bolstering the province’s …
Read More »‘Health care in this province sucks’: Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont.
Hundreds of people lined up in the cold and rain outside a Kingston health clinic for hours Wednesday morning, desperate to find a doctor. It marked the third day in a row a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic on Sutherland Drive after the clinic …
Read More »‘Enormous pressure’ expected in Ontario home care due to high growth of senior population
Ontario will need close to another 7,000 health specialists to accommodate an aging population likely to seek more home care over the next five years, according to researchers. A McMaster University team that co-produced a study for Home Care Ontario is predicting “dire consequences” with the province’s senior population amid …
Read More »‘The American model’: Ontario doctor claims move to private care building steam
Dr. David Barber, chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s general and family practice section, says a move toward private health care in Ontario is “happening already” and that it’s “going to get worse.” During a news conference Thursday discussing a shortage of family doctors in Ontario, Barber said one of …
Read More »An Ontario town promised long-term care beds 6 years ago is still waiting
Eighty-five-year-old Dianna Ayotte says she doesn’t think she’ll still be around when Sioux Lookout, Ont., is finally given a new long-term care home. The Ontario town, situated approximately four hours north of Thunder Bay, is home to a key hospital serving fly-ins from several First Nations. A lack of long-term …
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