Tag Archives: Health
Trudeau says protests, blockades could return after police clear Ottawa's core
OTTAWA - The federal government remains alert to the possibility that trucks and protesters could return to Canada's capital after police spent the weekend arresting demonstrators and dispersing block...
Feb 21, 2022
House of Commons passes Emergencies Act motion after fractious debate
OTTAWA - The House of Commons has passed a motion to approve extraordinary, time-limited measures in the Emergencies Act, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked last week in a bid to end blockade...
Feb 21, 2022
Queen plans to keep working after testing positive for COVID-19
LONDON (AP) - The Queen tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms, Buckingham Palace said, adding that she still plans to carry on working. The diagnosis prom...
Feb 20, 2022
Physician assistants could fill part of B.C.'s need for more doctors: advocates
VANCOUVER - Joanna Chan wants to come back to British Columbia to work as a physician assistant and she's not alone. The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants says a recent survey of its 800 me...
Feb 20, 2022
Ottawa police push ahead to end protest as bail hearings for organizers move forward
OTTAWA - Police officers donned helmets, wielded batons and deployed pepper spray in downtown Ottawa on Saturday as they tried to clear out protesters putting up what the city's interim police chief d...
Feb 19, 2022
Quebec health system unprepared to handle Omicron-fuelled long COVID cases
Montrealer Claudia Hbert says she started to feel extreme fatigue and to get fevers three weeks after returning from Senegal in March 2020, with only a few months left to a complete her Universit de M...
Feb 19, 2022
Scale up B.C. drug-checking programs to save lives: centre on substance use
VANCOUVER - Checking illicit drugs for deadly toxins is the best option to prevent fatal overdoses without a safer supply, but that service should be expanded to rural and remote communities in Britis...
Feb 19, 2022
Sturgeon Lake First Nation creating cultural birthing centre, aiming to recruit midwives
Sturgeon Lake First Nation is in the process of creating a first-of-its-kind birthing centre.They're one of three Indigenous communities in Canada currently taking part in a demonstration project aime...
Feb 18, 2022
Travellers to Nunavut who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 can isolate at home
IQALUIT, NUNAVUT - Travellers to Nunavut who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 or partially vaccinated will no longer have to isolate in one of the government's isolation hotels in Southern Canada. Nunavu...
Feb 18, 2022
Province’s top doctor says drop in test positivity is good sign
Saskatchewan's weekly COVID-19 numbers showed a record number of hospitalizations but also a big drop in test positivity rate.Dr. Saqib Shahab, the province's chief medical health officer, told 650 CK...
Feb 18, 2022