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TORONTO — Ontario is cutting more than $70 million from eHealth’s budget ahead of a major health system merger, and millions in health research funding is drying up. The numbers are contained in a detailed spending plan that the government tabled Thursday following last month’s budget. Though the Progressive Conservative government’s overall spending package is…

OTTAWA — Vice-Admiral Mark Norman says he has an “important story to tell Canadians” in the coming days after federal prosecutors dropped their criminal case against him. “Not to lay blame, but to ensure that we all learn from this experience,” Norman told reporters Wednesday during a press conference at a downtown Navy officers’ mess.…

OTTAWA — The Canadian Paediatric Society is recommending that everyone under 25 should get confidential access to free birth control. In a position statement released Thursday, the society says access to contraception is a basic human right, and the direct costs of unintended youth pregnancies probably exceed $125 million a year. It says contraception should…

Click:全国楼凤论坛 Click:Oily scalp treatment Populist movements are suddenly all the rage, at least that may be the perception based on the political parties sweeping to power across the world — in the U.S., Italy, Spain, the Philippines and many other countries. But contrary to popular belief, Canadians may not be trending towards populism, a new…

OTTAWA — Men who have had sex with men will be able to give blood after a deferral period of three months, down from a year, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Wednesday. The decision was made at the request of Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec, Petitpas Taylor said on Parliament Hill, adding it’s meant…

SASKATOON — Crews tasked with cleaning a Saskatchewan bridge are in for a dirty job. The City of Saskatoon says that over the last 50 years one of its bridges has accumulated nearly 350 tonnes of pigeon poop — which is roughly equal to 230 cars parked on the bridge. It says the feces adds…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former top adviser, Gerald Butts, is taking on a new role with a New York-based global consulting firm, helping it to build a new practice advising clients on risks related to climate change. Butts says helping the Eurasia Group establish a “geopolitics of climate” practice is one of what…

OTTAWA — A group of Canadian women’s organizations has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws in his government’s omnibus budget bill because of the harm they would cause to women targeted by harsh U.S. immigration policies. Last year, the United States said it wouldn’t accept asylum claims based…

A charter plane carrying 143 people from the U.S. military base in Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river off the end of a runway Friday night, and while some passengers were hospitalized, no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval…

MONTREAL — A town in Quebec’s Beauce region will be getting a new elementary school after a student’s song about its sorry state drew the attention of Premier Francois Legault. Legault said Monday the 84-year-old l’Accueil school in Scott, Que., which was damaged by recent floods, will be enlarged and moved to a new location…