Tag Archives: Health
PHAC eyeing COVID-19 variant evolution as fall resurgence looms
OTTAWA - The national public health agency is preparing for "worst-case scenario" COVID-19 variants that can evade immunity, Canada's top doctor told members of Parliament Tuesday, as early signs poin...
Oct 18, 2022
Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation helping create urgent care centre in Saskatoon
Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation, located northwest of Prince Albert, is helping create a new urgent care centre in Saskatoon.The province and Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments (ACD), a business investment and dev...
Oct 18, 2022
NDP leadership hopeful Appadurai shakes up race in B.C., but faces disqualification
VICTORIA - Anjali Appadurai says she knows she's upset the New Democratic Party establishment, but that shouldn't keep her out of the race for the party leadership. The former federal NDP candidate en...
Oct 17, 2022
Students perform $84,000 in free dental work for northern residents
Saskatchewan Polytechnic and University of Regina students helped bring smiles to the faces of people in La Loche, Clearwater River Dene Nation and Buffalo Narrows last week. During the Northern Healt...
Oct 17, 2022
Amount of COVID in wastewater samples drops in North Battleford
The level of COVID in North Battleford's wastewater has decreased by over a third. The SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA load dropped 37.8 per cent compared to last week. Researchers consider the level of COVID fo...
Oct 17, 2022
As Republicans relish bashing Biden in Ohio, Democrat Ryan cheers Trump on trade
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - When Donald Trump joked with supporters in Ohio that Republican Senate hopeful J.D. Vance had been "kissing my ass" for an endorsement, you could almost hear the snorts of delight f...
Oct 16, 2022
Vancouver, Surrey voters elect new mayors; bring promises of more police, RCMP stays
VANCOUVER - Voters in British Columbia ushered in a wave of sweeping political change throughout the province in municipal elections Saturday that saw new mayors elected in Vancouver and Surrey and ot...
Oct 15, 2022
Military eases vaccine mandate, presses ahead with discipline for unvaccinated troops
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces will press ahead with the forced expulsion of dozens of unvaccinated troops despite a new order from defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre on Friday ending the military's bl...
Oct 14, 2022
‘There was fear,’ Emergencies Act inquiry hears about life in Ottawa convoy protest
Ottawa has dealt with a fair number of serious crises over the last few years. A massive and destructive windstorm, floods, a giant sinkhole that swallowed a busy downtown throughway and, of course, a...
Oct 14, 2022
Business groups, city officials among first witnesses before Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA - An inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act heard first-hand testimony Friday about the effect of last winter's "Freedom Convoy" protest on the people and businesses i...
Oct 14, 2022