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Category: Health and COVID-19
Review of mercury board promised in wake of unsettling Grassy Narrows report
Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Zimmer says government to look into compensation and diagnostics used to determine who is suffering. ...
Grassy Narrows accuses government of sitting on mercury report
A First Nation north of Kenora says the government knew for years about levels of mercury poisoning in their community and hid a report proving it. ...
Heard: CUPE still worries about developmental services funding
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Seen: Toronto rehab clinic fined $200,000 for auto insurance fraud
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Nurses’ union warns about blood screening policies
ONA backs Liberal government ban on pay-for-blood clinics but says it worries about blood donor screening ...
Hoskins says refugee health care to cost $2 million this year
Health Minister calls on the Harper government to restore support program, saying 'the federal government themselves are doing a very good job at undermining our historical compassion and responsibilities for refugees.' ...
Bill addresses paid blood donations and regulation of hospital pharmacies
Health Minister Eric Hoskins has reintroduced a bill that is finding support from opposition parties on banning the practice of paying people for their blood ...
Hoskins expected to retable law to ban paid blood donor clinics
Health Minister Eric Hoskins is expected to reintroduce an anti-pay-for-blood bill on Tuesday after a similar bill died on the order paper when the previous legislature was dissolved. ...
Heard: Cancer Care Ontario signs third partnership with native groups
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