A poll had been conducted regarding the provincial election campaign, which revealed that the issue of energy has been ranked as the top most by the New Brunswick voters. This priority comes as the Liberal Government had been unsuccessful in a bid to sell NB Power to Hydro-Québec.

One of the biggest open-pit asbestos mines the world, the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Que is due to reopen in the month of September.

Countless efforts have been made by the Canadian Cancer Society, Quebec’s 9,500 doctors, and the Charest and Harper Governments for its revival. This resurgence can however be attributed to the political support from Ottawa and the brisk approval submitted by the Quebec Government of a $3.5 million guaranteed line of credit.

Certain targets had been set by the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), which have yet not been met, say reports.

These targets were aimed at lessening the long waiting hours for CT scans, long-term care and acute-care beds blocked by patients who just await their turn for other types of care.

The targets had been set to mainly reduce the waiting hours for surgery, diagnostic imaging, emergency care and long-term care, but the annual reports released by the LHIN for the second fiscal year in a row state that the Hamilton area failed to meet them.

Investigations over a blue-green algae bloom are going on. The Ministry of the Environment, Sudbury and District Health Unit has joined hands for searching the bloom on Main Beach in Ramsey Lake in the City of Greater Sudbury.

Water samples for testing the presence of blue green algae have been taken by the Ministry of the Environment.

Safety measures are being taken by the Health Unit, as a result of which the beaches such as Canoe Club Beach, Main Beach, New Beach and Amphitheatre Beach will be closed.

An officer from RCMP took a leap over the side ferryboat in central Manitoba, so that, a teen aged boy, who jumped off into the river could be rescued.

The instance took place on Monday, which was around 4: 30 pm on the Bloodvein River, which is almost 250 kilometers north the Winnipeg, which is on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.

As per the information provided by police, a 17 year old male travelling in the ferryboat, likely to have been under the influence intoxication, had been threatening to jump out of the boat when it was in the middle of the river.

It is the beginning of September and Ottawa should be ready to face the heat waves, as a warning has been issued that it will not be lessening till the later parts of the week.

Medical officer of health in Ottawa, on Monday issued the heat warning and further notice relating to the same on the same topic was given.

The temperatures in Ottawa reached 30.9 degrees Celsius at around 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, with a humidity of almost 41. The predictions for Wednesday have been made at 32 degrees Celsius, also, with thunder showers to be seen.

The plan of the Saskatchewan Government to carry on with the contentious health innovation by establishing a private surgical clinic is being criticized by the opponents.

The NDP Opposition is in rage over the private set up of a clinic, which they think would bring Americanization into the province’s health system. But, the situation is not as frightening, as it seems because Regina's Omni Surgery Centre would only carry out dental and arthroscopic knee surgery on patients, who have been in waiting for months.

Offering no-cost nicotine replacement therapies, like patch and chewing gum, the Nova Scotia is said to have offered as much as $1.3 million annually for the past eight years.

Steve Machat, Manager of Tobacco Control holds that these programs are available in all the nine health districts of the province. This was in response to an editorial that was carried by the Canadian Medical Association journal stating that Quebec was the only one which provided full funding for cessation programs.

Ottawa is yet to face a hot week ahead, and thus a heat warning has already been issued by the medical officer of Ottawa, Dr. Isra Levy; and it is planned to continue. After a heat alert is issued in a region, comes the heat warning, and the former is issued if the temperature touches 30 degrees for two consecutive days.

For Tuesday and Wednesday, highs upto 33 have been warned by Environment Canada, whereas, by Thursday, it is projected to come down to 30.

The significant proportion of the budget is being spent on healthcare in Canada, which leaves the other sectors like education devoid of the financial resources.

Around 35% of the total fiscal budget was used and was spent on the health care sector ten years back, which now has been raised to 46%, on an average. Talking about some provinces, Quebec spent 45% of its budget on health; B.C. spent 43.5 % and Ontario, 46.3% in 2008-09. Every year, the total resources spent on health budget surge by 5-6%.

The Federal Government seems to have no clue of whether Canada's health care system would be feasible in the future in its present form, Canada's Auditor General posited in front of delegates present at the last week's general meeting of the Canadian Medical Association

"Will Governments have the cash to meet the health needs of our aging population without increasing debt to unsustainable levels? ... Frankly, I'm not sure the government of Canada has all the information it needs to answer this important question", Sheila Fraser was quoted as saying.

On Thursday, ‘Cruisin for a Cause’ was taken part by all the A&W restaurants spread over Canada. It is a Classic Car event, being organized every year for last two years and this year, it marked its second anniversary. The product, which was added to its menu this time, was teen burgers.

As per the program launched, one Dollar from every teen burger would be contributed to the charity MS Society that works for patients suffering with multiple sclerosis. The event was an attempt to create awareness regarding the disease among people.

Vienna Declaration has been supported by Toronto, which has become the first city to support it. The declaration supports the harm reduction strategy over the war on drugs, which is enforced by the law.

Last month, it was announced by the city council at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna that it has approved the declaration. The council is also taking a call on the holistic approach to control the use of unsafe drugs, which can later become the cause of developing illness such as HIV and AIDS.

Alberta Health Services are blamed for damaging the brain of a vibrant young girl, whose vocabulary has been spoiled to the extent that she speaks like a toddler.

Bchar Alzien, who is a father of 11-year-old Hanna, wants to sue the services of Alberta. Hanna was admitted into the Alberta Children's Hospital in January 2008 and before her admission she used to speak two languages, English and Arabic.

Alzien said that his daughter was suffering from Down syndrome, but she was a normally functioning child; however, now she talks like a one-or two-year-old kid.

In order to empower a provincial health network, the plan of spreading the Disney magic was ludicrous for Premier Dalton McGuinty.

When it was discovered by the Liberals that Erie St. Clair, Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) had hired two Disney consultants, they immediately came into the action.

The consultants were hired and were offered a $9,500 keynote address at their forthcoming September 27 conference, which will take place at Caesars Windsor hotel and convention centre