Tag Archives: Health
Yukon supervised drug consumption site upgraded to allow indoor smoking
WHITEHORSE - People who use illicit drugs may now smoke their substances at the supervised drug consumption site in Whitehorse, one of the first in Canada to allow inhalation indoors, the Yukon govern...
May 30, 2022
Study struggles to explain why Quebec has high COVID death toll but low excess death
MONTREAL - Researchers are having a hard time explaining why Quebec had the country's highest official COVID-19 death toll despite a relatively low number of excess deaths between March 2020 and Octob...
May 30, 2022
MLA attends group home ceremony in La Ronge, visits NSN day program
Although Ty's House in La Ronge has been accepting residents since December 2020, the lifting of COVID restrictions earlier this year finally allowed for a grand opening ceremony to go aheadThe event ...
May 30, 2022
Race affected care for man who killed himself after visits to Regina hospital: family
REGINA - A Saskatchewan Health Authority business card with a number written on it lay on the ground where Samwel Uko's body was pulled from a lake. Jurors at a public inquest into his death heard Mon...
May 30, 2022
Delays announced as Birch Hills clinic waits for new nurse practitioner
The Birch Hills Primary Health Care Clinic will experience a staff shortage this summer which will impact its level of care.A new nurse practitioner (NP) was hired to fill a vacancy left by a former N...
May 30, 2022
Migrant women workers continue to face abortion access barriers: advocates
OTTAWA - While she has helped several migrant workers access abortion services in Canada, Evelyn Encalada Grez said one woman comes to mind. "The migrant woman was so afraid of being found out that sh...
May 28, 2022
Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine
OTTAWA - Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies - stored for a national emergency - to help Ukraine. It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment an...
May 27, 2022
Canadian Blood Service seeks to scrap lifetime ban on sex workers donating blood
OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services wants to scrap a lifetime ban on sex workers giving blood in a further move to make blood donation more equitable. The blood-donation service this month recommended to...
May 27, 2022
Weekly epi report indicates 12 new COVID-related deaths, another 376 new positive cases
There were 12 newly-reported COVID-19 deaths last week as reported in the Ministry of Health's weekly integrated epidemiology (epi) report. This was lower compared to the previous week's total which w...
May 26, 2022
Parliamentary committee to start report on expanding eligibility for assisted dying
OTTAWA - A special joint parliamentary committee will now consider its report on current legislation on assisted death and whether to expand who is eligible to opt for it. The committee of MPs and sen...
May 26, 2022