Tag Archives: Health
Prince Albert homeless community and candidates react to shelter location defeat
Plans for a proposed long term shelter in Prince Albert have essentially gone back to the drawing board following Monday night's city council meeting. After moving first reading to rezone a property o...
Oct 08, 2024
Saskatchewan Party promises increase in tax credits for persons with disabilities
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising to increase a set of tax credits for persons with disabilities if he's re-elected on Oct. 28.He says another four years with his party in government wo...
Oct 08, 2024
Redhead Equipment makes $150,000 towards Victoria Hospital expansion
The Equip the Vic program raising money to fund the Victoria Hospital expansion in Prince Albert received a massive boost Tuesday morning when Redhead Equipment donated $150,000 towards the campaign. ...
Oct 08, 2024
Peter Nygard denied bail pending appeal of his Toronto sex assault convictions
TORONTO - Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been denied bail as he appeals his sexual assault convictions in Toronto and an 11-year prison sentence. An Ontario Court of Appeal judge dismissed the ...
Oct 08, 2024
Rustad's Nuremberg, Nazi comparisons to COVID-19 measures 'regrettable,' says Eby
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - British Columbia's election campaign was dragged far off course Monday as the two main party leaders were forced to comment about comparisons of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war cr...
Oct 07, 2024
'I just want to get better': Breast cancer survivor joins CIBC Run for the cure to raise funds and hope
The Canadian Cancer Society along with North Battleford's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) branch partnered up for the second CIBC Run For The Cure at Finlayson Island on Sunday to raise fund...
Oct 06, 2024
'Oct. 7 changed us': Palestinian Canadians with family in Gaza mark a year of war
Fedaa Nassar says any time she has heard the phone ring in the last year, she becomes overwhelmed with anxiety. "I hate phone calls now," says the 34-year-old lab technician at an Ottawa-area hospital...
Oct 05, 2024
Couche Tard, On the Run parent firms challenge Health Canada nicotine pouch rules
Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court to overturn regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies. Mac...
Oct 05, 2024
'This is unbelievable' : Sask NDP and supporters share healthcare woes
Battlefords resident Amanda Singh struggles with a disease that causes severe pain and inflammation in her lungs, heart and spine. In the early days of her illness, she would have to wait at the hospi...
Oct 04, 2024
Holistic treatment facility opens in Wahpeton
The Yuasni Treatment Centre is open on the Wahpeton Dakota Nation north of Prince Albert with a goal of treating the whole person. Representatives from Indigenous Services Canada, the Prince Albert Gr...
Oct 04, 2024