Tag Archives: Health
Quebec public health wants smelter's arsenic emissions cut to 5 times provincial norm
MONTREAL - Quebec's public health director is recommending that arsenic levels in the air of a western Quebec city be reduced significantly, but even then they would remain five times higher than the ...
Aug 10, 2022
Montreal public health investigating after man dies from legionnaires' disease
Montreal public health officials say they are investigating a deadly case of legionnaires' disease in the city's east end to see if it is linked to two other cases detected in the area. The city's pub...
Aug 10, 2022
Quebec rejects plea to send army to northern region facing health worker shortage
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik to have Armed Forces members brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers. Ka...
Aug 10, 2022
Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids but acknowledges that providing new services is "co...
Aug 09, 2022
Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
OTTAWA - The government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids, the deputy prime minister said Tuesday, but added providing new services is "complicat...
Aug 09, 2022
Top commander defends military's vaccine requirement, says 'tweak' in the works
OTTAWA - Canada's top military commander said he will "tweak" the vaccine mandate for the Armed Forces in the next few weeks but defended vaccine requirements as necessary to keep the military ready t...
Aug 09, 2022
Meota fundraiser concert for BUH Foundation a big success
The recent fundraiser concert in Meota saw a great show of support and brought in $17,155 for the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) Foundation. All proceeds benefit the "Every Minute Matters" ER capita...
Aug 08, 2022
Liberals planning temporary solution to dental care promise: sources
OTTAWA - Sources close to the government's proposed $5.3-billion dental-care program say the Liberals are planning a temporary solution that involves giving money directly to patients in order to keep...
Aug 08, 2022
Canadian Blood Services urging people to donate as it faces collection challenges
TORONTO - Canadian Blood Services is calling on donors to book and keep appointments as it faces a decrease in collections. The organization said Monday it currently has only four days worth of O+ blo...
Aug 08, 2022
Heat warning still in place for large swaths of central and eastern Canada
Five provinces across central and eastern Canada continued to swelter in unseasonably hot conditions on Sunday, Environment Canada said as it extended a widespread heat warning into a second day. The ...
Aug 07, 2022