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Dan Williams, the minister of mental health and addiction, said the proposed changes aim to strengthen the province’s position in current class actions to recover opioid-related healthcare costs and other damages.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.

A judge ruled earlier this month that Trevor Farley was not criminally responsible for attacking Candyce Szkwarek, his colleague at Seven Oaks General Hospital in Winnipeg, as well as killing his mother and father.

The health authority said in an update on its website Tuesday that the final three affected sites came off outbreak status last week and there are no children left in hospital.

The school plans to open in 2025 with 20 medical students

The partnership aims to streamline how pharmacists assess for minor ailments.

A police watchdog says there are options, besides jails, that are already being used in other places in the province, such as sobering centres or having health professionals on site to help.

The ruling was another big victory for abortion rights advocates in Kansas, where a statewide vote in August 2022 decisively confirmed protections for abortion access under the state constitution.