Tag Archives: Health
Situation improving at McGill University superhospital after water main break
MONTREAL - A major Montreal health network started to reopen medical services Friday after an overnight aqueduct break cut drinkable water to its superhospital site. The McGill University Health Centr...
Jul 12, 2024
Conservatives would scale back supervised drug consumption sites, Poilievre says
OTTAWA - Supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with "a single taxpayer dollar," Pierre Poilievre said Friday. Duri...
Jul 12, 2024
How many doctors are there in Canada? Government announces projects to find out
OTTAWA - The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement. The money is...
Jul 11, 2024
B.C. rejects Henry report backing non-prescribed alternates to fentanyl, other drugs
VICTORIA - B.C's Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry joked that "the earth shook" with Thursday's release of her report on the safer-supply drug program, referring to an earthquake lightly felt...
Jul 11, 2024
'Justice was served': Killer of 4 women in Winnipeg guilty of first-degree murder
WINNIPEG - Cheers erupted in a Winnipeg courtroom, spilling out onto downtown streets Thursday, as family members who lost their loved ones at the hands of a serial killer said they had finally receiv...
Jul 11, 2024
City gets at big bonus in permit fees for hospital
An unbudgeted minimum $7 million surplus is heading the City of Prince Albert's way after some digging by the development department showed the province must get development and building permits for t...
Jul 10, 2024
Melfort, Tisdale Salvation Army feeding children throughout the summer
The Salvation Army in Melfort and Tisdale is working hard to try and ensure that no kids go hungry this summer.The local non-profit organization launched their 'Lunch Bags for Children' program yester...
Jul 10, 2024
Three new resident doctors join La Ronge training program
The La Ronge Rural and Remote Residency Training Program has welcomed three new students to Northern Saskatchewan. Camille Mutukistna and Daniel Antonenko, both of Toronto, and Natalie Tinney from Lim...
Jul 10, 2024
Canada pledges Ukraine aid, plan to buy submarines as NATO spending questions dog PM
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged another $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine in a one-on-one conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in W...
Jul 10, 2024
What is listeriosis, the illness recently linked to a recall of plant-based milks?
Several people in Ontario have become sick with listeriosis in an outbreak that triggered a national recall of certain plant-based milks that may have been contaminated with Listeria. WHAT IS LISTERIA...
Jul 09, 2024