Health

WINNIPEG — Three people are in stable condition after being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning they suffered in their Winnipeg home.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman's chest might be one reason.

Ottawa and the provinces and territories could have another $1 billion a year in tax revenues to split after pot becomes legal next year.

TORONTO — The federal government's proposed plan to impose an excise tax on medical marijuana as well as recreational cannabis has left patient advocate groups and Canadian licensed cannabis producers fuming.

OTTAWA — Travellers to Canada will be routinely asked whether they are bringing marijuana into the country as Ottawa moves to legalize recreational pot use.

CALGARY — Alberta's finance minister has a blunt reaction to the federal government seeking to split tax profits on pot on a 50-50 basis. Joe Ceci says he wonders what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government "is smoking.

VANCOUVER — A shoe box-sized machine is powering a one-year pilot project with the hope of cutting British Columbia's soaring overdose death rate.

VICTORIA — The unprecedented overdose death toll in British Columbia means it may be time to have a "courageous conversation" about decriminalizing the drugs that are killing so many people, says the province's minister of addictions.

TORONTO — It's hard to believe that a single small study could cause such a hullabaloo, but that's been the case with a research paper that looked at the effectiveness of using stents to open up clogged coronary arteries in patients with chest pain k

MONTREAL — If the price of legal marijuana must be competitive with the black market in order to discourage underground sales, then the same logic should apply to nicotine, the head of Imperial Tobacco Canada said Thursday.