Tag Archives: Health
First-of-its-kind portable x-rays helping people in remote northern Sask. communities
People in remote northern communities will no longer have to travel for hours to get a medical diagnosis.Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Health Services (PBCNHS) has partnered with multiple companies to ...
Aug 23, 2022
Health minister appoints chief nursing officer to address health crisis
OTTAWA - The federal health minister appointed a new chief nursing officer Tuesday, as the government works to overcome a critical nurse shortage that has left many hospitals across the country strugg...
Aug 23, 2022
La Ronge Petroleum, local couple raise $100,000 for children's hospital foundation
Efforts from La Ronge Petroleum, as well as residents Denis and Lynda Renaud, have resulted in more than $100,000 in donations to the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation (JPCHF).The fundraiser...
Aug 22, 2022
Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions
MONCTON, N.B. - A "Team Canada" approach is needed to fix the country's health-care problems, the premiers of the Maritimes and Ontario said Monday, but they offered no specifics. Following a meeting ...
Aug 22, 2022
Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - The federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of Moderna's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. In a press release Mo...
Aug 22, 2022
Quebec allowing four people per room in care homes, against coroner's recommendations
MONTREAL - Quebec's decision allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents per room will put people at risk without freeing up hospital beds, according to a patients rights advocate. T...
Aug 22, 2022
U.S. lawmakers, advocates pushing Ottawa to eliminate ArriveCan, open Nexus offices
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and cross-border business advocates in the United States want Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to go back to the future in order to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Ca...
Aug 22, 2022
Calm in the chaos: Canadian Medical Association's first Indigenous leader takes helm
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - In a brightly lit surgical room around sunrise, Dr. Alika Lafontaine recounts why he chose to become an anesthesiologist as he fills syringes for his first patient of the day. ...
Aug 22, 2022
Third COVID booster shot to be offered in Saskatchewan this fall
A third COVID-19 booster dose will be offered in Saskatchewan starting in the fall."We will start by offering the third booster to the most vulnerable people in long-term care," Dr. Saqib Shahab, the ...
Aug 20, 2022
Stigma against psychedelics could fade with decriminalization in B.C., experts say
Decriminalization of some hard drugs in British Columbia could help reduce stigma around psychedelic substances that have medicinal value, but have been caught up in the war on drugs, experts say. "Th...
Aug 20, 2022