{"id":933584,"date":"2026-10-15T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933584\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:38:15","slug":"ottawa-to-extend-1-2b-in-funding-for-home-care-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933584\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa to extend $1.2B in funding for home care, mental health services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government says it plans to extend funding to provinces and territories for mental health, addictions and home care by one year.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Marjorie Michel says in a social media post that the announced extension represents $1.2 billion in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Michel\u2019s post comes after provincial health ministers expressed worry about \u201cprofound and negative\u201d effects on patients and health care jobs if the federal funding agreements aren\u2019t renewed in this year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Provinces and territories also raised concerns earlier this month about the future of the Canada Health Transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The federal budget will be tabled later this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial and territorial health ministers are set to meet Thursday in Winnipeg, while Michel is to co-chair Friday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=halifax.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792042695_855_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government says it plans to extend funding to provinces and territories for mental health, addictions and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,84,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-933584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}