Statement from the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union: We are united in our condemnation of the Taliban’s decision not to reopen secondary schools to Afghan girls.
“Canada strongly condemns North Korea’s launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Thursday, March 24. Canada and its allies had also deplored the launch of North Korea’s missiles in early March, involving a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. These tests pose a direct threat to international and regional peace and security and are a clear violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
“On World Tuberculosis Day 2022, we acknowledge that tuberculosis (TB) continues to disproportionately impact Inuit communities throughout Canada. We commit to improving the health of Inuit in Inuit Nunangat through our TB reduction and TB elimination goals.”
Today, the co-chairs of the federal, provincial and territorial Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses—Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, and Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick's Chief Medical Officer of Health—issued the following statement on the release of the latest surveillance data on opioid- and stimulant-related harms in Canada covering the period from January 2016 to September 2021.
Message from the Minister of Health and the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health on National Poison Prevention Week - March 20 to 26, 2022
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Today, the Minister of Labour, Seamus O’Regan Jr., issued the following statement regarding the collective bargaining negotiations between Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference:
March is Pharmacy Appreciation Month. With more than 45,000 pharmacists and 9,900 pharmacy technicians in Canada, working in over 11,000 pharmacies, pharmacy professionals are the most accessible health care providers in the country.