Researchers in Alberta have successfully tested a new viral approach to treating prostate cancer in a small number of men.

Concerns over delayed surgeries and overcrowded emergency rooms dominated question period at Quebec's national assembly Tuesday, following the recent deaths of two patients - one waiting for heart surgery and the other, who had spent four days waiting on a stretcher in the ER.

A cancer patient who successfully helped lobby the New Brunswick government to fund an expensive cancer drug is now shifting his focus to P.E.I. in an effort to have Avastin funded by that province.