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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew continues to enjoy a honeymoon with voters one year after his NDP government was elected, but there are challenges ahead in fulfilling promises to improve health care and balance the budget.

Quebec's finance minister says the budget he is expected to present later today will be "restrained" amid what he describes as a provincial economy in stagnation.

The poll by Leger comes nearly a year after the federal government offered a $196-billion health accord to the provinces to increase health funding and address a growing shortage of health-care workers.

The union said it has ended all of its pressure tactics, such as the general strike that has shut 800 schools, including in Montreal, since the end of November.

The Quebec government has reached tentative agreements on working conditions with all unions in a labour alliance representing 420,000 public sector workers, but negotiations continue on salaries and benefits.

Wab Kinew, who is to become Canada's first First Nations provincial premier, spoke to young Indigenous people and those from all backgrounds in his victory speech on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, after the NDP won a majority in the Manitoba election.

Manitobans are to make history today as they cast final ballots in an election that has followed four weeks of promises, debates and controversial advertisements.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to make a child care announcement today in Winnipeg.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the province accepted the deal on Wednesday after the two sides agreed to add reviews into the deal to ensure long-term sustainability.

Canada's premiers are waiting to see if the federal cabinet can make headway towards a new deal on health-care funding as the ministers meet for a retreat in Hamilton this week.

A baby screams in the distance as a security guard stands watch over the waiting room at the emergency department of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Quebec on Monday, August 15, 2022, started offering fifth doses of COVID-19 vaccine to residents of long-term care homes and private seniors residences.

Canada's provinces and territories need a partner that will share half the financial load on the health-care system, which is buckling without stable, predictable and long-term funding, British Columbia Premier John Horgan said on Monday, July 11, 2022.

With pandemic restrictions easing across Canada, a House of Commons committee was warned on April 25, 2022, that disruptive new variants of COVID-19 will continue to emerge every few months unless the low vaccination rate in poorer countries rises.

A group of Quebec doctors have created a series of virtual training materials on life-saving procedures for Ukrainian health-care workers suddenly working in a war zone.