Tag Archives: Health
Results of First Nation suicide study show need for improvement, offer hope for change
Chief Margaret Bear of the Ochapowace First Nation remembers sitting in the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' previous building three years ago, filled with emotion and sharing much of the p...
Nov 01, 2022
Alcohol freezies handed out by mistake during Halloween event
The Resort Village of Candle Lake had to issue a warning Saturday evening after a small number of freezies containing alcohol were handed out at a community children's party earlier in the day. "Pleas...
Oct 31, 2022
New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease
MONTREAL - A new clinic opened Monday in Montreal to treat patients and help researchers better understand two conditions with different origins but similar symptoms - long COVID and Lyme disease. The...
Oct 31, 2022
B.C. offers doctors new pay model, including $135,000 raise, to target health crisis
VANCOUVER - Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system. The ...
Oct 31, 2022
Climate Changed: Canada's health system isn't ready for new reality, say doctors
Montreal family doctor Claudel Ptrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing "risk amplifier." She says it raises the potential for hazard across the board, from threatening the most bas...
Oct 30, 2022
Province helping accredit health workers living in Sask. to counter shortage
It's about to get easier for health-care workers from other countries to work in Saskatchewan.Premier Scott Moe said part of the work being done to address the physician and health-care worker shortag...
Oct 29, 2022
Feds take first step toward creating stand-alone insurance program for dental care
The Liberal government is moving toward providing dental-care insurance directly to qualifying Canadians, rather than working with provinces and territories to bolster existing coverage.That will invo...
Oct 28, 2022
Feds take first step toward creating stand-alone insurance program for dental care
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is moving toward providing dental-care insurance directly to qualifying Canadians, rather than working with provinces and territories to bolster existing coverage. That...
Oct 28, 2022
Federal dental care benefit gets go-ahead from House of Commons
OTTAWA - The Liberals dental-care benefit bill passed third reading Thursday in the House of Commons despite opposition from the Conservatives and Bloc Qubcois. The bill passed 172 to 138, with Conser...
Oct 27, 2022
‘Excited to see it continue’: The story of a graduate’s experience in Sturgeon Lake Health Center
In what's being called another step on the journey to reconciliation with First Nations peoples, a graduate from Saskatchewan Polytechnic is sharing her experience of working in a First Nations health...
Oct 26, 2022