Tag Archives: Health
One Arrow community gathers to denounce domestic violence
Speaking to dozens of people gathered inside of a local gym, Tricia Sutherland encouraged them to start living, because that's what Monique would want. Sunday's memorial-walk at One Arrow First Nation...
Jun 30, 2025
Northern Healthcare Classic raises over $76,000 for Victoria Hospital
Cooke Municipal Golf Course was the setting for The Lynx - Northern Healthcare Classic golf tournament on June 27. Between donations from local businesses, families, and healthcare champions, a total ...
Jun 29, 2025
Multiple privacy breaches at BUH by SHA employee
There have been multiple privacy breaches at the Battlefords Union Hospital in recent months, battlefordsNOW has learned. Over a six-month period from Oct. 1, 2024 to April 4, 2025 an operating room s...
Jun 27, 2025
Quebec air ambulance company pays homage to four victims of helicopter crash
MONTREAL - The company that operated an air ambulance that crashed on Quebec's North Shore on June 20 is honouring the four victims who perished. Airmedic says three of its crew members died as heroes...
Jun 27, 2025
Federal Court approves Indian Hospitals class-action settlement
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has approved a multi-billion-dollar class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals' following out-of-court negotiations between Ott...
Jun 26, 2025
Quebec premier offers condolences after all victims recovered from helicopter crash
MONTRAL - Quebec's premier offered his condolences on Thursday to the victims of an air ambulance crash on Quebec's North Shore that killed three crew members and a patient. In a post on the X platfor...
Jun 25, 2025
National data shows overdose deaths dropped in 2024 but still higher than pre-pandemic
TORONTO - National health data released Wednesday shows overdose deaths in Canada dropped in 2024 but the toll still remained much higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint statement fr...
Jun 25, 2025
Prince Albert area now listed as high risk for measles exposure
Prince Albert and area is now one of three locations in the province listed as having high risk of measles exposures. The listed communities are nearby Duck Lake and Rosthern, where six cases of the h...
Jun 24, 2025
Full health services restored in La Ronge
Communities have been repatriated, fire bans are being lifted, and now northern Saskatchewan has another piece of normal back as the full health care services have been restored in La Ronge.The Saskat...
Jun 21, 2025
Control zones set up in Fraser Valley, B.C., after Newcastle disease detected
CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Can...
Jun 20, 2025