Tag Archives: Health
Counselling service offers free mental health checkups
STG La Ronge Counselling is offering annual mental health checkups free of charge. The service focuses on mood, anxiety, and stress evaluations, and is meant to be a leap forward in integrating mental...
Jan 23, 2024
Class-action lawsuit approved over COVID-19 outbreaks in Quebec long-term care
MONTREAL - A judge has approved a class-action lawsuit that accuses Quebec's health network of failing to protect long-term care centres during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and causing avoi...
Jan 23, 2024
Provinces concerned about expanding assisted-dying for mental disorders: Holland
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says some of his provincial counterparts have concerns about whether Canada is ready to extend medical assistance in dying to people with severe mental illnesses....
Jan 22, 2024
RCMP relaxes recreational cannabis use policy for officers
The RCMP has eased its policy on cannabis use by members, saying simply they must be fit for duty when reporting for work. The new substance use policy replaces a 2018 one that required front-line off...
Jan 21, 2024
Five locations in Saskatoon exposed to measles case
A measles case has been identified in Saskatoon and the Saskatchewan Health Authority is working to notify those who may have been exposed.According to the health authority, the case was acquired duri...
Jan 19, 2024
Dog bites continue to be major issue in La Loche and other northern communities
Dog bites are becoming endemic in La Loche and to Amanda Black, it's merely a symptom of a larger problem within the community."Around here, there are only very few people that actually consider the a...
Jan 19, 2024
P.A. man attacked by dog, uses pocketknife to survive
A Prince Albert man is recovering after being attacked by a dog.Ron Bodnarchuk told paNOW his 19-year-old grandson Ethan, who didn't feel comfortable discussing the incident, was nearly killed on Wedn...
Jan 18, 2024
Battlefords Treatment Centre set to host job fair
A call is being put out to fill many positions for the new Battlefords Treatment Centre, run by Poundmaker's Lodge, that's opening in North Battleford.The facility is to be located at the site of the ...
Jan 18, 2024
Four children with strep A have died in B.C. in the past month, disease centre says
VANCOUVER - Four children under the age of 10 who had streptococcal infections have died since mid-December, in what the BC Centre for Disease Control says is part of a surge in such infections. A bul...
Jan 18, 2024
B.C. Coroners Service reports 36 outdoor deaths to start year, 5 on cold Jan. 12
VICTORIA - British Columbia's recent cold snap has been life-threatening for people facing homelessness and struggling with addiction and mental health issues, says a spokesman for one of the province...
Jan 18, 2024