Tag Archives: Health
Windsor to get millions in federal help for cost of Ambassador Bridge blockade
OTTAWA - The federal government has set aside $6.9 million to cover the cost of dealing with last winter's "Freedom Convoy" protests at Canada's busiest border crossing, according to Public Safety Min...
Dec 29, 2022
Health agency 'closely monitoring' COVID-19 in China, no mention of pre-flight tests
OTTAWA - The national public health agency says it's "closely monitoring" the COVID-19 situation in China, but gives no indication it's planning to follow the U.S. by requiring that travellers from Ch...
Dec 28, 2022
Meadow Lake Hospital Foundation sees show of support
Meadow Lake Hospital Foundation received a nice boost of support recently when Tolko Industries Ltd. donated $10,000. Foundation vice-president Shelley Arnold said the funds will help purchase new equ...
Dec 28, 2022
Canadians fined at least $15M for breaking COVID quarantine rules in 2022, data shows
OTTAWA - Canadians who were caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine rules racked up at least $15 million in fines this year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, but it's not clear ho...
Dec 27, 2022
Canadian Blood Services needs blood, plasma donors after storm disruption
OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services is hoping to appeal to the generous spirit of the holiday season as it faces a severe shortfall of blood products after several days of stormy weather across the count...
Dec 27, 2022
The latest news on winter storms complicating holiday travel across Canada
The latest news on storms and other extreme weather shutting down power and creating difficult travel conditions at the peak of the holiday season across Canada: 10:45 p.m. British Columbia's Ministry...
Dec 24, 2022
RSV cases increase as do pediatric hospitalizations
Even as COVID hospitalizations are starting to drop again, the number of children hospitalized with RSV infections in Saskatchewan has doubled. In the week of December 11 to 17, 37 people (almost all ...
Dec 23, 2022
Doctor’s records improperly disposed
Patient records from a newly closed medical practice were not properly disposed of the privacy commissioner has ruled. Dr. Lalita Malhotra, who retired earlier this year, failed to have all records sh...
Dec 23, 2022
Experts clash on whether medically assisted dying system ready for expansion by March
OTTAWA - Leading experts involved in developing an expansion of Canada's medically assisted dying regime to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder are at odds over whether the exp...
Dec 23, 2022
Quebec health minister says ER overcrowding improving, union says ERs in 'crisis'
MONTREAL - The new plan to reduce overcrowding in Quebec emergency rooms is paying off, the province's health minister said Wednesday, but a major nurses union said that while the measures are laudabl...
Dec 21, 2022