Tag Archives: Health
Health Canada approves first bivalent booster for kids ages 5 to 11
OTTAWA - Health Canada approved a COVID-19 vaccine booster for children on Friday that targets more recent variants of the coronavirus, along with the original strain. The Pfizer-BioNTech "bivalent" s...
Dec 09, 2022
Premiers demand meeting with Trudeau to discuss increased health-care funding
OTTAWA - Canada's premiers presented a united front Friday as they demanded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau come to the table personally to hammer out an agreement for Ottawa to shoulder more of the bur...
Dec 09, 2022
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Dec 09, 2022
RCMP and City to collect winter wear for homeless shelter
People can help the homeless with a winter clothing drive coming up later this month. The Battlefords RCMP and the City of North Battleford are partnering on this initiative to take place from 6:30 p....
Dec 08, 2022
14 per cent of students absent in North Central: CRISP report
Just over 14 per cent of students in the North Central area were absent in the last two weeks in the latest update on respiratory illnesses from the province. The North Central rate was slightly lower...
Dec 08, 2022
At least five B.C. children died from influenza last month, as mortalities spike
VICTORIA - At least five children died last month in British Columbia from influenza as a rise of early season respiratory illnesses added strain to the beleaguered health-care system. The figure mark...
Dec 08, 2022
'The system let him down': Superstore knife incident results in probation
CONTENT WARNING: The following story has details regarding suicide. The man at the centre of a disturbance last July at Prince Albert's Superstore won't serve any additional jail time and those closes...
Dec 07, 2022
Tens of thousands of families have applied for federal child dental benefit: Gould
OTTAWA - Social Development Minister Karina Gould says 35,000 people have applied for the new child dental benefit since the program opened a week ago. Gould was responding to an opposition question i...
Dec 07, 2022
Billed as remedy for doctor shortage, virtual medicine in N.S. hits bottleneck
HALIFAX - Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual medicine offered a novel way for patients to see doctors during a lockdown and hope that technology could alleviate chronic pressure on a strained hea...
Dec 07, 2022
Finance minister replaced in B.C. cabinet shuffle that blends old, new
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby unveiled a new-look cabinet Wednesday that elevates several first-time ministers to prominent positions, retains veterans in long-held posts and moves the...
Dec 07, 2022