Tag Archives: Health
Federal cannabis review calls for look at tax structure among 54 recommendations
A group convened by the federal government to study the legislation that made cannabis legal is recommending the country review one of the industry's biggest gripes: excise taxes charged to pot produc...
Mar 21, 2024
Pet Care Info Night hosted by veterinarian on Friday
Dr. Jordan Woodsworth will be in the tri-communities on Friday delivering a presentation on pet care. The event will be held at the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p...
Mar 21, 2024
Non-profit taken off support agency roster after Alberta stroke patient sent to motel
Alberta's health minister says a non-profit agency that shipped a stroke patient to a motel for his long-term recovery will be taken off a roster of agencies offered to provide such support. Adriana L...
Mar 21, 2024
Future Prince Albert candidates say provincial budget underwhelming
Underwhelmed and disappointed are the words being used by two future Prince Albert NDP candidates to describe the provincial budget. Both Nicole Rancourt and Carolyn Brost Strom said the government sh...
Mar 21, 2024
Hepatitis A exposure warning at Saskatoon drug store
People who visited the Shoppers Drug Mart in Saskatoon's Centre Mall (Circle and 8th Street East) this past month are being warned they may have been exposed to Hepatitis A. The warning period is from...
Mar 21, 2024
'We are sorry': Manitoba premier apologizes to two men switched at birth decades ago
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew formally apologized at the provincial legislature Thursday to two men who were switched at birth in a hospital almost 70 years ago and only late in life discovere...
Mar 21, 2024
'Stay the hell away from our kids': Holland warns big tobacco about nicotine pouches
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland promised a major crackdown on nicotine pouches Wednesday, and issued a stern warning to tobacco companies he says are marketing the pouches to children. Holland a...
Mar 20, 2024
Montreal public health optimistic that measles outbreak can be brought under control
MONTREAL - Despite a rising number of measles cases in and around Montreal, one of the doctors leading the public health response to the outbreak says he's optimistic the virus can be brought under co...
Mar 20, 2024
Manitoba premier to apologize to two men switched at birth in 1955
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is set to apologize on behalf of the government to two men who were switched at birth in 1955 in a hospital north of Winnipeg. Kinew will apologize Thursday in th...
Mar 20, 2024
Family of slain Quebec provincial police sergeant testifies at coroner's inquest
MONTREAL - Family members of a provincial police sergeant killed in the line of duty a year ago told a coroner's inquest Wednesday they will be forever haunted by her murder, but they hope it results ...
Mar 20, 2024