Tag Archives: Health
'Not just an old person's disease': Dispelling myths during Arthritis Awareness Month
Patricia Bell tripped and hurt her ankle one day. Being 31 years old at the time, and in good health, the Prince Albert resident didn't think twice about the incident and just chalked it up to clumsin...
Sep 17, 2024
MK-ULTRA: Ottawa, health centre seek to dismiss Montreal brainwashing lawsuit
MONTREAL - Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and...
Sep 17, 2024
Quebec labour tribunal says nurses cannot pressure the province by refusing overtime
MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has stymied the latest negotiation tactic of a union representing most of the province's nurses. Fdration Interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec had threatened th...
Sep 16, 2024
B.C. mayors seek 'immediate action' from governments on mental health crisis
VANCOUVER - Mayors, First Nations leaders, and law enforcement officials are pleading with the federal and provincial governments to take "immediate action" to address what they call dual "crises" of ...
Sep 16, 2024
Virtual physician program in use at Kelvington emergency room
The virtual physician program has been implemented in the emergency room at the Kelvington and Area Hospital. The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) said in a news release the program was instituted ...
Sep 16, 2024
Eby pledges involuntary care for severe addictions in B.C., ahead of October election
VANCOUVER - British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain ...
Sep 15, 2024
Saskatchewan NDP pledges to improve rural health-care if elected
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling on Scott Moe and the Sask. Party to do more when it comes to getting health care back on track in rural Saskatchewan.NDP health critic Vicki Mowat suggested these issue...
Sep 13, 2024
B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...
Sep 13, 2024
"It's a selfless act": Living organ donor saves brother's life and raises awareness
"If I had to do it again and I had another kidney to be able to provide, I would do it," Jenna Lockert said.In 2014, Lockert donated her kidney to her brother, Kyle Deck. He suffered from IgA nephropa...
Sep 12, 2024
B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabet...
Sep 12, 2024