Tag Archives: Health
When will feds lift COVID-19 mandates? It's complicated, minister says
OTTAWA - What will it take for the federal government to lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says it's complicated. Conservative and NDP members of the House of Commons he...
Mar 21, 2022
Aluminum shortage leads to walker supply issue
People are being asked to look in their basements, garages or other storage areas to see if they can find forgotten walkers.A lack of available aluminum has led to challenges in finding walkers. SaskA...
Mar 21, 2022
Canada's vaccine donation progress slowed by logistics in receiving countries: Sajjan
OTTAWA - Canada is urging the World Health Organization not to reject the only Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine, so it can be donated and used by the COVAX vaccine-sharing alliance. But Canada hasn't ev...
Mar 21, 2022
COVID levels increasing in P.A. & North Battleford: study
Editors Note: A previous version stated levels were slightly increasing in P.A. and dropping in North Battleford, however, this was data collected from the week before. We apologize for the error.-Pri...
Mar 21, 2022
Doctor describes what it's like to provide medical assistance in dying in new book
OTTAWA - After more than 20 years delivering babies into the world, Dr. Stefanie Green decided to specialize in delivering suffering people out of it. She was among the first Canadian physicians to of...
Mar 21, 2022
Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022
Bump in COVID-19 cases 'not unexpected' as public health measures lifted, Tam says
OTTAWA - Canada's top public health officials have suggested the country is unlikely to be caught up in the new wave of COVID-19 cases around the world, but could instead see a "blip" this spring. Dr....
Mar 18, 2022
Two years in, no moving on from COVID-19 for Canada's exhausted health-care workers
MONTREAL - COVID-19 cases continue to roll into the two Toronto-area hospitals where Eram Chhogala works as a trauma nurse. The numbers have dwindled to a stream instead of a wave, but each is a remin...
Mar 18, 2022
Rose Garden donation a personal testament to friendship
Donating to the Rose Garden Hospice efforts was a deeply personal thing for Carolyn Fenton. She, along with her husband Dan and their business Prince Albert Photocopier, gave $27,000 to the hospice ef...
Mar 17, 2022
Lloydminster receiving two child care facilities
New child care facilities are coming to Lloydminster.The Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced the addition of 1,202 new licensed not-for-profit child care facility spaces in 21 Saskatchewa...
Mar 17, 2022