British Columbia will send some cancer patients to the United States for radiation treatment starting May 29 in an effort to reduce backlogs and long wait times, says the province’s Health Minister Adrian Dix. Speaking at a press conference on May 15, Dix said breast and prostate cancer patients will be referred to one of…

Ottawa’s proposal to increase air travel security fees by 33 percent will cost passengers more than a quarter billion dollars next year, according to estimates from a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). Budget 2023 released by the federal government in March proposed to increase the Air Travellers Security Charge (ATSC) by 32.85 percent,…

A Nova Scotia woman is organizing a rally to call on the provincial government to improve the health-care system in response to the recent deaths of two women, who passed away after extensive wait times at local emergency departments. Jennifer MacDonald, a resident of Sydney on Cape Breton Island, said she is organizing the rally out…

Canada’s passport office took more than two years to bring in-person staffing back to pre-pandemic levels despite being aware of increased demand for travel documents, federal records show. The records, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, also noted that more than a tenth of passport officers (11 percent) continued to work from home as late as this…

Canadians are less confident in their health-care system than Americans are, according to a new study by the Angus Reid Institute. Published on Sept. 7, the study found that only 37 percent of Canadians were confident they could access urgent care in a timely fashion, compared to 70 percent of Americans, should an emergency happen…