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Kenney apologizes for comparing stigma of being unvaccinated to plight of '80s HIV-AIDS patients
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has a personal tie to the issue, fighting in San Francisco in the 1980s to overturn a law extending hospital visitation rights to gay couples—a move aimed at preventing people from visiting their dying partners.
Feds appear in no rush to conduct overdue parliamentary review of assisted dying law
Repeated delays have led some critics to conclude that the government would rather wait for court rulings to force its hand, rather than plunge into the potentially politically explosive questions the parliamentary review was supposed to explore.

How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected abortion care in Canada

Pandemic-related travel restrictions and facility closures initially jeopardized access to abortion care. However, the pandemic has also become a catalyst for more accessible ways to deliver abortion care.
The trouble with ‘resiliency’

It’s time to get to the root causes of healthcare worker burnout.
Blood service recommends Health Canada end gay blood donation ban

Federal ministers, including the prime minister, have said they want to speed up an end to the gay blood ban, and Health Canada is expected to respond to the blood-service recommendation by the spring.
‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying

Interviews with medical practitioners often indicate an uneasy relationship for many healthcare workers with this practice.
Historic U.S. Supreme Court abortion arguments heard today, conservatives signal changes

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito were among those who questioned the viability line, with Alito referencing those who have said the line "really doesn't make any sense.''
U.S. Supreme Court justices signal they'll OK new abortion limits, may toss Roe
U.S. Supreme Court set to take up all or nothing abortion fight
Canada supports plan for international pandemic treaty

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canada supports the development of a new global convention on pandemic preparedness and response that will be debated at a special meeting of the World Health Assembly today.

Kenney apologizes for comparing stigma of being unvaccinated to plight of '80s HIV-AIDS patients

Feds appear in no rush to conduct overdue parliamentary review of assisted dying law

How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected abortion care in Canada

The trouble with ‘resiliency’

Blood service recommends Health Canada end gay blood donation ban

‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying

Historic U.S. Supreme Court abortion arguments heard today, conservatives signal changes

U.S. Supreme Court justices signal they'll OK new abortion limits, may toss Roe

U.S. Supreme Court set to take up all or nothing abortion fight

Canada supports plan for international pandemic treaty