Health

WASHINGTON — A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots' lives, and some began to roll over, sit and stand on their own, researchers reported Wednesday.

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — The 78-year-old Mi'kmaq elder cradles the grainy photo of his lost daughter laminated on his smart phone — a reminder of his hope to find her one day.

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is setting 19 as the minimum legal age for cannabis use. Health Minister Benoit Bourque said Wednesday it's the right age to make an informed decision, and matches the province's minimum age for alcohol use.

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg city councillor is raising objections to a proposed addition treatment centre.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government on Tuesday rolled out the latest phase of its legalized-pot plans: a five-year, $36.

OTTAWA — Canada's drug developers recognize that pharmaceutical prices need to come down but they fear the Trudeau government will push too hard in a regulatory review by Health Canada, the head of an industry association said Tuesday.

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.