Tag Archives: Health
Canada to join U.S. trade fight with Mexico over genetically modified corn products
WASHINGTON - Canada is siding with the United States in a burgeoning trade dispute over Mexico's restrictions on products made with genetically modified corn. Trade Minister Mary Ng and Agriculture Mi...
Aug 25, 2023
Families impacted by mass stabbings at JSCN find support at Traditional Health gathering
Nearly a year has passed since Joyce Burns's husband Earl was stabbed and killed and the scars are still very fresh.Joyce was one of many survivors at this week's Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Na...
Aug 25, 2023
Sask. mental health advocates aiming to end stigma for men
Two Saskatchewan men have made it their life mission to end the stigma on mental health.Allan Kehler, an International Keynote Speaker, and J.R. Larose, a retired CFL player, have been travelling to d...
Aug 24, 2023
Boil drinking water order issued for area in western Saskatchewan
People in the area of Alsask are being told to boil their water after harmful bacteria was identified in water samples.Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health issued a boil drinking water order Thursday for...
Aug 24, 2023
Hospital worker fired after Indigenous woman's death should be reinstated: arbitrator
MONTREAL - An arbitration tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of an orderly who was fired after an Indigenous woman filmed Quebec hospital staff insulting her as she died. In an Aug. 16 decision, t...
Aug 23, 2023
As conservative premiers talk gender and kids, Poilievre's grassroots ask same of him
OTTAWA - As conservative premiers change the rules around pronoun use in schools, members of the federal Conservative grassroots want Pierre Poilievre to wade further into the debate around gender exp...
Aug 23, 2023
Wildfire smoke can damage the brain long after flames are extinguished, research says
A growing body of international research suggests pollution from wildfire smoke can produce cognitive deficits, post-traumatic stress and may even increase the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkin...
Aug 23, 2023
Reduction of lab and X-ray services in La Ronge due to crisis in staffing
Outpatient lab and X-ray services at the La Ronge Health Centre are no longer available on Fridays starting Aug. 25.That's according to a public notice distributed last week, which stated the reductio...
Aug 22, 2023
Patients in B.C. long-term care homes and N.W.T. hospitals displaced by wildfires
Nearly 900 seniors have been forced out of care facilities in a wildfire-ravaged region of British Columbia while the province has joined Alberta in receiving medical evacuees from the Northwest Terri...
Aug 22, 2023
Quebec court authorizes class action over alleged sterilization of Indigenous women
Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Atikamekw women who say they were sterilized against their will. Justice Lukasz Granosik green-lit the lawsuit on behalf of "...
Aug 22, 2023