‘Terrible for sufferers’: Frustration grows over delay in assisted dying enlargement – Nationwide


John Scully has been dwelling with a serious depressive dysfunction analysis for 4 a long time, and regardless of attempting almost each remedy recognized to medication, from shock remedy to trans-magnetic stimulation, his situation has not improved. The 82-year-old says he desires that struggling to finish. He desires to do it legally, painlessly, in a […]

Trudeau says he’s open to talks after Quebec seeks to decide out of nationwide dental care


Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard reads his funds speech, on March 21, on the legislature in Quebec Metropolis. On Wednesday, Girard informed reporters that the additional federal cash for dental care introduced within the 2023 funds would have been higher spent by growing federal well being transfers typically.Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau […]

After 3 years of COVID-19, right here’s how Canada’s ‘endemic’ future might look – Nationwide


On March 11, 2020, the world got here to a screeching halt when the World Well being Group declared the COVID–19 outbreak a worldwide pandemic. Faculties the world over shut down, workplaces turned distant and the fast-spreading virus revealed the fragility of many international locations’ health-care methods. Since then, the virus has claimed near seven […]

Dental care: Right here’s what’s being really helpful to feds in new coverage report – Nationwide


The Canadian authorities’s strategy to common dental care ought to embrace preserving non-public dental insurance coverage packages and utilizing present clinics ought to be a part of the Canadian authorities’s strategy to common dental care, the Canadian Dental Affiliation says. On Tuesday the affiliation launched a coverage paper following consultations with federal Well being Minister […]

How the nationwide dental plan can do extra to succeed in those that want it most


Nobody actually loves going to the dentist, however that’s not all the time the rationale individuals delay reserving appointments. With one in three Canadians missing dental care protection, in line with the federal authorities, many can’t afford it. Low-income Canadians are 4 occasions extra prone to keep away from seeing a dentist as a result […]

New children dental profit now open to some Canadians. Right here’s what to know – Nationwide


The Liberal authorities’s new dental care profit for youngsters is open for functions, which is able to assist qualifying households get assist for his or her kids’s dental prices. The dental profit was a compromise between the Liberals and NDP, as a part of the supply-and-confidence settlement that may see the New Democrats assist the […]

Making extra youngsters’ ache drugs in Canada is probably not ‘greatest manner’ to spend cash: Trudeau – Nationwide


As Canada faces an ongoing scarcity of kids’s drugs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t know if ramping up home manufacturing of prescribed drugs is the best method to addressing the issue. “I don’t know offhand if it’s the proper factor for Canada to be beginning producing these specific capsules or whether or not […]