Health

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has rejected a proposal that would have made all people in the province organ donors unless they specifically requested not to be.

REGINA — The group that represents Saskatchewan cities wants the provincial government to begin consultations on its cannabis legalization strategy.

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — Canada's legal system fails to attach enough value to the loss of an Indigenous woman's life, according to an advocate for the family of a Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq woman who died after being held in a police cell in 2009.

U.S. regulators have approved a new treatment for people with a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

TORONTO — A Toronto doctor has been stripped of his licence and ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars after Ontario's medical watchdog found he made sexual remarks and inappropriately touched a female patient during psychotherapy sessions over

WINNIPEG — A push to keep children safe in Winnipeg is underway this Halloween as police warn about potentially lethal fentanyl blotters.

LOS ANGELES — Follow-up heart surgery for Jimmy Kimmel's infant son was postponed because of family colds. In a statement Monday, Kimmel's publicist said that Billy Kimmel's scheduled operation was delayed as a precaution.

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver cardiologist has presented details of a revolutionary heart valve surgery to thousands of doctors from around the world and says the minimally invasive procedure will "blow people's minds." Dr.

VICTORIA — British Columbia is planning to introduce a pilot program that would give some residents a basic income in what will be part of a series of legislative strategies to fight poverty, the minister in charge said Monday.

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators want to remove a health claim about the heart benefits of soy from cartons of soy milk, tofu and other foods, saying the latest scientific evidence no longer shows a clear connection.