August 12, 2026
WINNIPEG - A ransomware attack on Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre has affected door access, heating, ventilation and air conditioning at Manitoba's largest hospital. Shared Health said in a statement Monday it's responding to what it called "a ransomware incident affecting certain facility maintenance systems."
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August 12, 2026
HAMILTON, Ontario and MONTREAL - St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (St. Joe’s Hamilton), St. Joseph’s Home Care (St. Joe’s Home Care), and AlayaCare announced a novel interoperability initiative connecting hospital and home care systems to support bi-directional clinical data exchange between St. Joe’s Hamilton’s Epic Health Information System (HIS) and St. Joe’s Home Care’s AlayaCare Cloud platform.
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August 12, 2026
KITCHENER, Ont. – A 26-year-old Kitchener man has pleaded guilty to a widespread computer hacking conspiracy that resulted in the compromise of many U.S. organizations, the theft of billions of sensitive customer records and the extortion of numerous victims.
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August 12, 2026
VANCOUVER – WELL Health Technologies Corp. a digital health company empowering healthcare practitioners and their patients, has announced the appointments of Loreto Grimaldi (pictured left) as chief legal officer and Kaytek Przybylski (pictured right) as chief digital & information officer. These appointments further strengthen WELL’s executive leadership team as the company continues to scale Canada’s largest outpatient healthcare platform powered by software and AI.
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August 12, 2026
EDMONTON - The competition for federal funding can be fierce, and even the most promising projects can score well but remain unfunded. The LevMax-Health Program is Alberta Innovates’ solution to ensuring these projects get the support they need.
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August 12, 2026
MONTREAL - Quebec psychiatrists are calling on the province’s next government to appoint a dedicated minister of mental health. The call is part of six actions unveiled in the Quebec Association of Psychiatrists’ (AMPQ) Mental Health 2026 platform.
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August 12, 2026
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. - Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC) and the SLMHC Foundation are celebrating a major milestone in bringing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services to the region with the successful commissioning of Sioux Lookout’s first MRI machine.
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August 12, 2026
MONCTON, N.B. - Theia, a Toronto-based leader in markerless motion capture, announced that kinesiology researchers in New Brunswick are using Theia3D, its AI-powered markerless motion capture platform, to evaluate a patient-handling system that helps caregivers safely reposition patients in bed while reducing the physical demands of one of healthcare’s most demanding tasks.
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August 5, 2026
TORONTO – A large-scale trial of an AI-driven solution to predict and prevent delirium is rolling out across 13 Ontario hospitals. The randomized-controlled trial, which reduces bias and is considered the gold standard in clinical testing, will involve approximately 15,000 patients.
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August 5, 2026
OTTAWA - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has developed Physician Engagement Guidelines to support industry, government and other organizations in designing tools and solutions for - and with - physicians. We are looking for five (5) organizations to share feedback on the draft guidelines.
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