Tag Archives: Health

BUH to experience some temporary disruptions over holiday period
People using the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) might notice a temporary disruption of some services over the holidays. The SHA responded in a statement to battlefordsNOW Tuesday that the Intensive ...
Dec 20, 2022

Quebec anticorruption squad kept busy this year investigating fake vaccine passports
QUEBEC - A new report from Quebec's anticorruption unit says its officers were kept busy this year chasing down hundreds of reports related to the production and use of fake COVID-19 vaccine passports...
Dec 20, 2022

Quebec premier 'more optimistic' on health-funding deal after meeting with Trudeau
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he is "more optimistic" about reaching a health-care funding deal with Ottawa after his meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As pediatric ...
Dec 20, 2022

Melfort Christmas Castle supporting local food bank, fight against childhood cancer
The Christmas Castle in Melfort is getting locals in the holiday spirit, right before the Christmas weekend.The Christmas tree maze began earlier this month (Dec. 5), and will run nightly from 6-9 p.m...
Dec 19, 2022

P.A. & North Battleford seeing high levels of COVID in wastewater
COVID levels in Prince Albert and North Battleford are once again considered high.That's according to researchers with the University of Saskatchewan who're studying the virus through the communities'...
Dec 19, 2022

Empty Stocking Fund, Food Bank see lots of support
The Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre (BDFRC) is enjoying plenty of donations from the community this year for the Empty Stocking Fund (ESF) project and the Food Bank. "We're distributing ...
Dec 19, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' protest voted news story of the year
OTTAWA - The massive convoy of demonstrators that rolled into Ottawa this past winter loudly heralded a new era in Canadian politics, with blaring horns and the rumble of hundreds of idling engines. T...
Dec 19, 2022

'Perfect storm' of inflation, high prices driving more into homelessness: advocates
CALGARY - Social agencies and advocates say rising interest rates and high inflation are pushing more Canadians into homelessness. Chaz Smith, who was once homeless himself, said some of the clients o...
Dec 19, 2022

Dietician gives advice for navigating holiday meals
Turkey dinner with mashed potatoes smothered in gravy is a holiday meal we often look forward to - and topping that off with dessert will make those calories add up.According to a study by Wren Kitche...
Dec 18, 2022

In crowded N.B. hospital, 88-year-old awaiting nursing home placed in supply room
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she's alarmed by the shortages of space and staff in t...
Dec 17, 2022