Tag Archives: Health
New Canadian regulations would put warning on each cigarette, not just packaging
Canada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette. The move builds on Canada's mandate to include graphic photo warnings on tobacco prod...
Jun 10, 2022
'A scary situation': All Stanley Mission residents ordered to evacuate
All residents of Stanley Mission have been ordered to evacuate after the McCafe fire quickly began moving towards the community last night. The general evacuation began around 8 a.m. with registration...
Jun 10, 2022
112 cases of monkeypox in Canada, all of them among men: public health officer
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer said Friday there were 112 cases of monkeypox across Canada and all of those infected were male. There were 98 cases in Quebec, nine in Ontario, four in A...
Jun 10, 2022
Canada's SOA commitment: $27M on irregular migration, 4,000 more migrants by 2028
LOS ANGELES - Leaders from across the Americas, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, signed on Friday to what U.S. President Joe Biden called a "historic commitment" to ease the pressure of northw...
Jun 10, 2022
Irvine awarded honourary membership to national health society
Two decades of volunteer work with the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) has landed La Ronge's Dr. James Irvine an honourary membership. "I'm very honoured and a bit humbled because there have been so...
Jun 09, 2022
Quebec politicians say more time is needed to pass expanded assisted dying bill
Quebec's health minister says an end-of-life care bill that would have expanded access to medical aid in dying will not be passed before the legislature breaks for the summer. Christian Dub says the m...
Jun 09, 2022
Quebec officials say 98 monkeypox cases detected, more than 1,600 vaccinated
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says the province now has a total of 98 confirmed cases of monkeypox. That number reported today is up by eight cases from the 90 reported earlier this week. Monk...
Jun 09, 2022
Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival returns
After holding a virtual show last year due to the pandemic, Miyawata Culture Inc. is excited about offering an in person event again this year for the annual Indigenous Performance Festival at Poundma...
Jun 09, 2022
Weekly EPI reports 10 new COVID-related deaths along with 285 new cases in the province
Deaths from COVID-19 have remained consistent from one week to the other according to the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report.There were 10 newly-reported COVID-19 death...
Jun 09, 2022
More females, older drug users dying due to unregulated drug market: B.C. coroner
VICTORIA - The coroners service in British Columbia says more females are dying from illicit drug use. It says that while men have historically accounted for nearly 80 per cent of fatalities, more tha...
Jun 09, 2022