Health

A Vancouver Island doctor involved in setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites outside hospitals has resigned from her positions with Island Health, claiming she was placed on leave as punishment for her public advocacy work.

VICTORIA — Chronic understaffing, and the excessive workload and burnout that comes with it, has the people in charge of protecting British Columbia's most vulnerable children in a state of crisis, the province's representative for children and youth

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is spending $72 million to expand a personal care home in the Transcona area of Winnipeg.

NEW YORK (AP) — They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home.

HALIFAX — The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia says there were 20 workplace deaths last year across the province, two more than the year before.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal scientific publication on Thursday returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of wildfires in Hawaii and California.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's official languages commissioner says her office has received dozens of complaints from people who could not receive service in French on the province's eVisitNB health platform.

PORTLAND, Ore.

PORTLAND, Ore.

NEW YORK (AP) — They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home.