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After early end to season, Canucks enter off-season with looming questions

After early end to season, Canucks enter off-season with looming questions

VANCOUVER — One year after reaching Game 7 of the second round of the playoffs, the Vancouver Canucks begin their summer a month earlier.
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US has 800 measles cases and outbreaks in several states. Here's what you should know

US has 800 measles cases and outbreaks in several states. Here's what you should know

The U.S. has 800 cases of measles nationwide as of Friday, and two more states identified outbreaks this week. Texas is driving the high numbers, with an outbreak centered in West Texas that started nearly three months ago and is up to 597 cases.
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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory

Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory

A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak. The covid.
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FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections

FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety inspectors who oversee U.S. foods and drugs wouldn't be impacted.
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Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump's sights for punitive action

Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump's sights for punitive action

WASHINGTON (AP) — First the nation’s top law firms . Then its premier universities . Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society.
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Former Alberta minister details allegation Premier Smith purposely misled cabinet

Former Alberta minister details allegation Premier Smith purposely misled cabinet

EDMONTON — An outspoken member of Alberta's legislature, booted from the United Conservative Party caucus, is airing more detailed allegations of what he calls government deception over a health-care contract scandal.
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Alberta names new interim chief medical officer of health

Alberta names new interim chief medical officer of health

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr.
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Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs

Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs

NEW YORK (AP) — A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation's top health agency , eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings .
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Vancouver Park Board preparing for 'unpermitted' cannabis events on 4-20

Vancouver Park Board preparing for 'unpermitted' cannabis events on 4-20

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Park Board says it's gearing up for "unpermitted" events on April 20 including on Sunset Beach, where thousands of people gathered in recent years to smoke cannabis to the chagrin of city officials and police.
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