Tag Archives: Health
Province awards $337,000 grant to Muskwa Lake Wellness Camp near Pinehouse
Muskwa Lake Wellness Camp near Pinehouse Lake is getting a one-time injection of funds from the provincial government.The grant totalling $337,000 was awarded to Kineepik Mtis Local 9 to enhance opera...
Dec 07, 2021
Liberals raise doubts of high number of vaccine exemptions among Conservatives ranks
OTTAWA - Government House leader Mark Holland is questioning the relatively high number of medical exemptions among the Conservative ranks preventing them from being vaccinated against COVID-19. On Mo...
Dec 07, 2021
Saskatchewan changes eligibility for COVID booster shots
Saskatchewan is making COVID-19 booster shots available to more people in the province.During a media conference Tuesday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency president Marlo Pritchard announced changes ...
Dec 07, 2021
COVID booster shot age of elegibility lowered, clinic today in Melfort
More people in Saskatchewan can get their COVID-19 booster.The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency announced changes to eligibility for booster doses this morning.Anyone 50 years of age and older who ha...
Dec 07, 2021
'This is beyond my expectations,' Champagne says of Canadian biomanufacturer rebound
OTTAWA - Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says Canada's biomanufacturing sector has rebounded beyond his initial expectations in the last several months, as a Canadian drug maker stands ...
Dec 07, 2021
Most Canadians support strong border measures amid new Omicron COVID-19 variant: poll
OTTAWA - Since the announced detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, a new poll suggests Canadians bracing for the worst. More than four in five respondents to an online survey by Leger and the ...
Dec 07, 2021
Canadian traveller forced to stay in quarantine facility after negative COVID-19 test
Lennard Skead says he felt like he'd been put in jail for a crime he didn't commit when he returned to Canada from South Africa on Thursday. Skead, who lives in Brandon, Man., said he wasn't allowed t...
Dec 06, 2021
B.C. moves to recovery management phase after floods; most military leaving province
VICTORIA - British Columbia is shifting into repair and recovery mode following devastating floods and landslides caused by record rains that crippled transportation links, deluged agricultural operat...
Dec 06, 2021
Travellers who've forgotten to use ArriveCan app can now give details at the border
OTTAWA - Travellers who can't access the government's ArriveCan app, or simply forget to fill it out, may start to receive some clemency at the border after Canada's public safety minister gave new in...
Dec 06, 2021
PAGC Women's Commission providing jackets to those in need
As temperatures dip this week near minus 30 Celsius, the Prince Albert Grand Council's Women's Commission, in partnership with the Indian Metis Friendship Centre, is helping make sure more people have...
Dec 06, 2021