Tag Archives: Health
Drug user advocates concerned about B.C.'s decriminalization exception request
VANCOUVER - Advocates for drug users are raising concerns about British Columbia's request for Health Canada to empower police to step in when they see illicit drug use in public spaces, saying it may...
Apr 28, 2024
Roots of Hope making a difference in suicide prevention
Roots of Hope is celebrating five years of suicide prevention work in Meadow Lake and area, on Thursday, May 2, at the Meadow Lake Community Life Centre (Meadow Lake Alliance Church). A community suic...
Apr 27, 2024
B.C. premier says public use rules should have been in place before decriminalization
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is preparing to ban most public drug use, a change to parts of its decriminalization pilot project that the premier says should have been in place all along. The province ...
Apr 26, 2024
Kikinahk plans to utilize Waterbase Inn as homeless shelter without municipal support
Editor's Note: A statement from Kikinahk released after this article was published says the organization will no longer purchase the Waterbase Inn "because the required conditions were not met.""The K...
Apr 25, 2024
Top court to examine COVID-related entry limits imposed by Newfoundland and Labrador
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will weigh the constitutionality of a pandemic-related restriction that curbed travel for public-health reasons. The top court has agreed to hear arguments about a...
Apr 25, 2024
Mom distributes air quality monitors after 9-year-old's asthma death during wildfires
Nine-year-old Carter Vigh was having a great day last July 11, visiting a waterpark, enjoying a picnic lunch and playing soccer with other kids at a day camp run by his mother, Amber Vigh. At the time...
Apr 25, 2024
Canadian health-care professionals urged to share climate disaster mitigation info
HALIFAX - After last summer's heat waves, deadly floods and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to help their patients better prepare for climate change...
Apr 24, 2024
RBC Foundation gifts $7,500 to assist in training La Ronge nurses
The RBC Foundation is giving $7,500 to the La Ronge Health Centre to provide a Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) for local health care providers."The support of RBC is important for our nurses so that...
Apr 24, 2024
Ottawa puts another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.The program was announced shortly aft...
Apr 24, 2024
Results of Canadian uranium workers study delayed
The country's most comprehensive study on the effects of radiation on 90,000 Canadian uranium workers is delayed.Originally expected to have its final study results released this year, the study has b...
Apr 24, 2024