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Florida Democrats, from community activists to the top of the state party, say they’re energized and ready for the November elections — vowing to organize, mobilize and compete. They face strong headwinds — including the ever-increasing numbers of registered Republican voters, an inability to generate enthusiasm in the 2022 midterm elections, and difficulty attracting the kind of big-money ...

Florida Democrats, from community activists to the top of the state party, say they’re energized and ready for the November elections — vowing to organize, mobilize and compete. They face strong headwinds — including the ever-increasing numbers of registered Republican voters, an inability to generate enthusiasm in the 2022 midterm elections, and difficulty attracting the kind of big-money ...

In just the past week, health officials in Alberta and Quebec have noted capacity issues at their hospitals with one official saying there were "a lot of kids being hospitalized."

Rise comes year after after Canadian pediatric were overwhelmed as a ‘tripledemic’ of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19 sent waves of young patients to the ER

As health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses — a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.

The CHU Ste. Justine and Montreal Chidrens Hospital came together Dec. 6 in a call for public cooperation, urging parents not to bring their children to crowded hospital emergency rooms

A spike in respiratory viruses is applying pressure on the Children’s Hospital and CHU Ste-Justine.

With the holiday season around the corner, health officials held a joint news conference Wednesday about long wait times in their respective emergency rooms.

If your child is sick — but doesn’t require immediate care — avoid going to the ER this holiday season, staff at two Montreal pediatric hospitals said on Wednesday. 

Montreals pediatric hospitals are asking for parents cooperation as the holiday season approaches, urging them to avoid emergency departments if their childs condition does not require immediate care.