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News Canada » Ontario » Health: More Wildfires Burn in Canada as U.S. Health Concerns Grow

News channel or source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/17/weather/wildfire-smoke-air-quality
Published on: Friday 17 July 2026

The dense smoke from Canadian wildfires has pushed air quality to dangerous levels in the past few days. Judson Jones and Zeke Minaya Smoke from wildfires scorching eastern Canada dirtied the air in ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Tick-borne diseases continue to rise across Canada, raising health concerns

News channel or source: https://jang.com.pk/en/69053-tick-borne-diseases-continue-to-rise-across-canada-raising-health-concerns-news
Published on: Tuesday 14 July 2026

Canadian health experts have issued a warning that anaplasmosis, a lesser-known tick-borne illness, is increasingly becoming common as black-legged tick populations continue to expand across eastern ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario family doctor waitlist reduced by half, health minister says

News channel or source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-family-doctor-waitlist-reduced-by-half-health-minister-says/
Published on: Thursday 16 October 2025

More than 50 per cent of the Ontarians who were on an official waiting list for a family doctor at the start of the year now have a medical provider, according to the provincial government, which has ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario Taking Next Steps to Improve Health-Care Access

News channel or source: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006476/ontario_taking_next_steps_to_improve_health_care_access
Published on: Tuesday 16 September 2025

TORONTO – To protect Ontario’s health-care system by providing more connected and convenient care to people around the province, the government is consulting to expand the scopes of practice for a ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario Continues to Protect Health-Care Workforce

News channel or source: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007401/ontario-continues-to-protect-health-care-workforce
Published on: Monday 04 May 2026

PETERBOROUGH — The Ontario government is continuing to deliver on its commitment to protect the province’s health-care system by expanding the Ontario Learn and Stay Grant (OLSG) to include two ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Despite approval from Health Canada, delay in cancer drug funding leaves patients in limbo

News channel or source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-despite-approval-from-health-canada-delay-in-cancer-drug-funding/
Published on: Monday 29 June 2026

A bespoke treatment for metastatic melanoma is unavailable to Canadians because it is still being reviewed for public funding ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario health agency vendor suffered major ransomware attack in 2025

News channel or source: https://globalnews.ca/news/11720041/ontario-health-athome-ransomware/
Published on: Sunday 08 March 2026

A vendor contracted by the agency in charge of overseeing Ontario’s home care system suffered a ransomware attack, Global News can reveal – details the province didn’t share after the incident. The ...

News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario Government Encourages the Adoption of New Health Technologies

News channel or source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/ontario-government-encourages-adoption-new-health-2025a1000p4j
Published on: Sunday 21 September 2025

The Ontario government has launched the Health Innovation Pathway, an initiative to accelerate the adoption of innovative health technologies and improve patient care, by funding four initial projects ...