Bus passengers in Ottawa are about to see a new way of paying their fares, which could be cheaper for some and more costly for others. OC Transpo plans to introduce its new PRESTO smart card system July 1 where riders can reload a card to pay their fare instead of using a pass, ticket [...]

Beginning of Story Content The heat is being turned up on the Ottawa Senators. Down 2-1 to the New York Rangers in their first-round series, the Senators have to find a way to get out of their funk at Scotiabank Place in Game 4 Wednesday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7:30 p.m. ET) or they”ll be on [...]

The transition from the painkiller Oxycontin to a new formulation has led to some troubling trends in Ottawa, as police report a rash of pharmacy robberies and doctors say addicts are moving on to other narcotics. The drug company Purdue Pharma stopped manufacturing Oxycontin in Canada in March, and replaced it with a new type [...]

It takes 1,000 donors each day to keep the province’s hospitals stocked with a healthy supply of blood. (CBC) Hema Quebec may soon allow prospective blood donors who lived in Europe during the Mad Cow disease outbreak to donate blood. The outbreak began in England in 1984 when a cow developed strange symptoms and soon [...]

The head of a regional health agency in Quebec said he had no choice but to shut down a Scientology-based rehab centre in Trois-Rivières. In recent months, he said at least four clients were taken to hospital because of methods used at the centre. The Narconon Trois-Rivières is one of dozens of similar centres in [...]