Laura Osman

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Reporter with The Canadian Press

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Canadian premiers listen to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the closing news conference at the First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa, on Tuesday, October 3, 2017. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Five key points to know about Tuesday's health-care talks between Trudeau, premiers

Canada's 13 premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit around the same table in person for the first time since COVID-19 hoping to find a path toward a new long-term health-care funding deal.

News, Politics | February 6th 2023

Visitors and tourists to Parliament Hill stand around the Centennial flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

COVID-19 tests to remain mandatory for travellers from China for another two months

People arriving on flights to Canada from China, Hong Kong and Macao will have to do a COVID-19 test before they board for another two months, after Canada announced it would renew border restrictions on air travel from those areas on Thursday, February 2, 2023.

News, Politics | February 3rd 2023

Camilla Care Community centre, Mississauga, Ont.,

Expert panel releases new long-term care standards, but enforcement is key to success

Proposed new standards for long-term care issued by a panel of experts at the Health Standards Organization on Tuesday say residents should get at least four hours of direct care a day and workers must be paid more.

News, Politics | January 31st 2023

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), talks to the media at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Photo by Keystone via AP-Salvatore Di Nolfi

If WHO declares the COVID-19 global emergency over, what happens next?

Monday, January 30, 2023, could mark a major milestone in the history of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the World Health Organization stands poised to decide whether or not to declare an end to the global public health emergency.

News, Politics | January 30th 2023

Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S. on July 4, 2013. File photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

Canadians worried about health care, new poll shows

A new survey suggests the vast majority of Canadians have concerns about the state of the health-care system, particularly in Atlantic provinces where hospitals have struggled to maintain emergency services for months.

News, Politics | January 27th 2023

Trudeau questions 'illogical' decision to subcontract ArriveCan development

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Canada's top public servant to look into the government's procurement process over what he said seemed to be a "highly illogical and inefficient" contract to develop the ArriveCan app.

News, Politics | January 24th 2023

Protesters and supporters gather to listen to speakers in downtown Ottawa as a protest against COVID-19 measures that has grown into a broader anti-government protest continues to occupy Ottawa, on Feb. 17, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press/Cole Burston

Canadian Press votes 'Freedom Convoy' protesters Newsmaker of the Year

They came to Ottawa by the thousands with different goals and grievances, but united in their disenfranchisement with the federal Liberal government and COVID-19 health restrictions.

News, Politics | December 21st 2022

Chief science adviser Mona Nemer speaks during a news conference, on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Ottawa. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

First recommendation on how to combat long-COVID is acknowledge it exists

Canada's chief science adviser gave the government a road map on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, to wade through some of the murky and mysterious elements of long-COVID in an effort to offer people better treatment, starting with an admission that the disease even exists.

News, Politics | December 15th 2022

Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos provides an update on COVID-19, post-COVID condition, and other public health concerns during a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Duclos says provincial ministers agree health care must improve, but no deal yet

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and his provincial counterparts agree privately on what needs to be done to improve health care, the federal minister said on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, but he argues "the ball is in the premiers' court" to accept a deal for more funding from Ottawa.

News, Politics | December 15th 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Trudeau says he won't throw money at healthcare without true reform plan from provinces

The federal and provincial governments appear deadlocked in their negotiations on the future of health care in Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's latest comments suggest he will not be the one to blink first.

News, Politics | December 14th 2022