Health

The mayors of 14 Inuit communities in northern Quebec are demanding the provincial government declare a public health emergency as tuberculosis cases in Nunavik reach the highest reported level in recent history.In a letter Monday to Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé, the mayors wrote that two issues precipitated the demand: an "unprecedented surge" in tuberculosis cases, and what they say is a plan by the province to cut back on infectious disease resources for Nunavik. CBC News wasn't immediately able to verify the cuts in question.Last year, the region's health board reported 95 cases of tuberculosis. To date in 2025, the mayors wrote, 40 cases have been reported."These statistics are a direct reflection of colonial systemic racism that continues to dictate health policy and resourc...

Measles cases are rising in Ontario, putting pregnant people and their babies at risk. Experts are calling for better prenatal screening for measles antibodies and urging vaccination before pregnancy.

When Nidal Zaqout arrived in Montreal last September from Gaza, he hoped to have a chance to rebuild his life.But safety didn't mean the struggle was over.He soon realized that he and his family would only receive public health coverage for three months after arrival — despite having fled Israel's deadly attacks on Gazans and their homeland. "It's a bad feeling, I'm thinking about everything every day," Zaqout said from the living room of his West Island home, where he lives with his parents, two of his sisters, his wife and his two children."I have a big family, big responsibility." Zaqout fears what might happen if someone in his household becomes ill. His father suffers from severe knee pain and his mother from migraines and issues with her back, shoulder and neck.Without Quebec health ...

An emergency room physician is blowing the whistle on deteriorating conditions in hospitals managed by B.C.'s Fraser Health Authority — claiming in a lawsuit that her job was threatened after she and other doctors sought to warn patients about a potentially dangerous situation.Kaitlin Stockton has worked in the emergency rooms at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody since October 2017, where she claims rapid decline in the past two years has led to "increasingly unsafe and substandard patient care."She sat down with CBC News to lay out the concerns detailed in the lawsuit — which include the health authority's alleged rejection of a plea to implement a mass casualty protocol in the aftermath of the alleged attack at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival i...

WARNING: This article references sexual assault, and may affect those who have experienced​ them or know someone affected by them.Kaitlyn Braun was sentenced to three years in prison in a Hamilton court room Monday after she faked being pregnant and conned two women into providing her with doula support while she was on house arrest for similar crimes. Braun will also serve the remainder of her house arrest sentence behind bars, bringing her total sentence to three years and eight months of incarceration.Dressed in a lime green sweater and dark green pants, Braun, 26, sat in the prisoner's box Monday, looking down for most of the hearing and did not address the court except to say "good morning" to Ontario Court Justice Joe Fiorucci.In January, she pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining...

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not vaccinated.Dr. Kieran Moore says these infants recovered, but their infections could have been prevented if their mothers had been vaccinated and protected from contracting measles.Congenital measles can result in severe complications, including inflammation of the brain and death.On Thursday, Moore announced an infant born prematurely and infected with measles died in southwestern Ontario.He says the infant also faced other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus.In an interview with The Canadian Press, Moore says 40 pregnant people have been infected with measles in Ontario, and...

Dr. Donald Craig was an intern at the old General Hospital in Saint John on a snowy night in January 1968 when a doctor asked him for help.The doctor had to deliver a baby at nearby St. Joseph's Hospital, but a woman at the General was also about to give birth. That child was three months premature and expected to be stillborn."Can you handle this?" the doctor asked.Craig had delivered babies before, but only under the supervision of a doctor or a resident. So he grabbed a book on human labour and began to review it. Then a nurse came and told him the baby was breech — something the doctor hadn't mentioned. So he went back to his book to look that one up. A few hours later, a nurse came to take him to the delivery room."She screams at me, 'Craig, she's ready, she's pushing and she's crying...

20 hours agoNewsDuration 9:17An anonymous hotline has fielded over 20,000 calls from people across Canada who want support when using drugs alone, and as CBC’s Jennifer La Grassa uncovers, the callers who rely on the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) are not who you might think they are.

Allison MacGillivary recounts the moment she and her family spotted a killer whale swimming backwards off the shoreline in West Vancouver.

6 hours agoNewsDuration 9:17An anonymous hotline has fielded over 20,000 calls from people across Canada who want support when using drugs alone, and as CBC’s Jennifer La Grassa uncovers, the callers who rely on the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) are not who you might think they are.