Health

TORONTO — Opioids killed more people in Ontario in the second year of the pandemic compared to the first, but the province saw a drop in those deaths this past March, newly released data shows.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia doctor of 43 years says the province’s shortage of family doctors is an issue decades in the making — made more acute by an aging population. Dr.

BENI, Congo (AP) — A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Beni city, Congo’s ministry of health announced Monday, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — About 40,000 low-income adults living in the country illegally won't lose their government-funded health insurance over the next year under a new policy announced Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration.

LONDON, Ont. — Western University announced Monday staff and students who return to campus next month will be required to have at least one booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and wear masks in classrooms. The London, Ont.

MONTREAL — Quebec's decision allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents per room will put people at risk without freeing up hospital beds, according to a patients rights advocate.

MONCTON, N.B. — A "Team Canada" approach is needed to fix the country's health-care problems, the premiers of the Maritimes and Ontario said Monday, but they offered no specifics.

OTTAWA — The federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of Moderna's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. In a press release Monday, the company said Canada purchased 4.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights has been affirmed through a partial hand recount, a move forced by two Republican activists.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and cross-border business advocates in the United States want Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to go back to the future in order to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada.