Medtech Canada members receive government announcement updates and other key news impacting the medtech sector in the association’s weekly e-newsletter:

FEDERAL

QUEBEC

BRITISH COLUMBIA

ALBERTA

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

ONTARIO

MANITOBA

SASKATCHEWAN

NOVA SCOTIA

PEI

FEDERAL

National AI Strategy

$5B in Federal Funding Being Put Towards Health Infrastructure Across Canada

Minister Valdez announces new funding for the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy

Federal Government invests $48 Million in Providence Health Care's Clinical Support & Research Centre

QUEBEC

Quebec, Ottawa sign nearly $10B in infrastructure agreements

New CT scanner will be working by Christmas at the Barrie Memorial

BRITISH COLUMBIA

New health care training programs at Okanagan College to strengthen B.C.'s laboratory workforce

Enhanced coverage in B.C. supports more people with diabetes

Diagnostic Training Investment to Support Rural Emergency Care

Approving access to over-the-counter hearing aids

ALBERTA

Alberta Opens Private Preventative Diagnostic Testing Market

Alberta partially rolls out new surgery funding model for public hospitals

Alberta to lower age of self-referrals for breast cancer screening to 40

Alberta dual-practice doctors could begin offering private surgeries in fall

Alberta's Strategic Plan for Cancer to 2036

Amii Launches $10M Health Innovation Lab to Build the Future of AI-Enabled Healthcare

New health system dashboard launched

Government announces $59 million for ICU & cardiac care in southern Alberta

Alberta promises billions for health care

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

ONTARIO

Ontario invests $4.6M in McMaster Nuclear Reactor, boosting medical isotope production

Province, feds fund $5M program to connect Ontario businesses to European markets amid tariff threats

Ontario becomes 2nd province to lower colorectal cancer screening age to 45

Incoming MRI suite is 'so long overdue' for the Rainy River District, hospital says

Ontario Scaling Up Innovation in Life Sciences Sector

MANITOBA

Manitoba Government Adds 200 Hip and Knee Surgeries Across Province

Cardiac Centre of Excellence re-established

SASKATCHEWAN

Blood testing program keeps Saskatchewan pregnancies safe

Sask. lowers breast cancer screening age to 40; advocates say it's about time

Saskatchewan Expands Access to Breast Cancer Screening with Second Mammography Unit

Saskatchewan Protecting Progress Made on Breast Cancer Diagnostics Wait Times

2026-27 Health Budget Puts Patients First by Protecting and Improving Access to Primary Care, Hospital Care and Surgery

Point-of-care testing expanded to Assiniboia emergency department

NOVA SCOTIA

Wait times for hip and knee replacements in Nova Scotia now shortest on record

PEI

P.E.I. becomes first province to lower colorectal cancer screening age to 45

NEW BRUNSWICK