Tag Archives: Health
Western Quebec smelter will reduce arsenic emissions to five times provincial norm
MONTREAL - Arsenic emissions at a western Quebec copper smelter will be reduced to five times the provincial norm by 2017 at a cost of around $500 million, the plant's owner said Thursday. Glencore, t...
Aug 18, 2022
Quebec COVID-19 booster rates stay low as province launches new vaccination campaign
MONTREAL - As Quebec prepares to launch a provincewide COVID-19 vaccination campaign ahead of a potential new fall wave, it's unclear whether it will be enough to prompt a pandemic-weary public to rol...
Aug 18, 2022
Report: Saskatchewan on pace for around 450 opioid-related deaths in 2022
Saskatchewan is on pace to set a new record of opioid-related deaths for a calendar year.According to the Saskatchewan Coroners Service drug toxicity deaths report, there have been 74 confirmed fatal ...
Aug 17, 2022
Syphilis rates doubling every year in Sask.
Syphilis is growing in Saskatchewan with cases doubling every year. In 2021, 1,940 cases of the sexually transmitted infection were reported, excluding the population living on reserves. Of those, 248...
Aug 16, 2022
NB resident concerned about shortage of family doctors
A North Battleford woman is upset after not being able to access a doctor at a local clinic she has been going to for many years with her healthcare needs. Amy Williams said after her longtime physici...
Aug 16, 2022
Quebec junior college students have 'reduced ability to study' post-COVID: union head
MONTREAL - As post-secondary students prepare to return to class in the coming weeks, experts are worried about the impact of more than two years of pandemic-related disruptions on their ability to su...
Aug 16, 2022
B.C. drug death toll passes 10,000 since declaration of emergency in 2016: coroner
VICTORIA - British Columbia has lost more than 10,000 lives to illicit drugs since the province declared a public health emergency in April 2016, chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says. Lapointe said the pr...
Aug 16, 2022
Stanley Mission wellness walkers complete sixth annual awareness trek
Stanley Mission resident, Sally Ratt, says the emotions she felt during a suicide awareness walk from Prince Albert to Stanley Mission were unexplainable. Ratt began participating in the walk in 2017,...
Aug 15, 2022
Quebec allows copper smelter in northwest to emit arsenic levels five times norm
MONTREAL - A copper smelter in northwest Quebec will be permitted to release 15 nanograms of arsenic per cubic metre of air - five times the provincial norm - Quebec's environment minister said Monday...
Aug 15, 2022
COVID levels considered large in P.A. and North Battleford: study
COVID levels are much higher in Prince Albert and Saskatoon than they were for the past few months. According to researchers at the University of Saskatchewan, who continue to study wastewater in the ...
Aug 15, 2022