Tag Archives: Health
Minister Bennett says national opioid crisis plan to be informed by proposals in B.C.
OTTAWA - Canada's new minister of mental health and addictions says she is very interested in proposals from British Columbia on how to proceed with a plan for addressing the opioid crisis. Asked abou...
Nov 19, 2021
A 'one-way door': Ottawa goes slow on easing testing rule for Canada-U.S. travellers
WASHINGTON - Ottawa is effectively installing "one-way" signs along the road to the Canada-U.S. border, critics complained Friday as the federal government promised to stop requiring costly COVID-19 t...
Nov 19, 2021
COVID-19 weighing heavy on Melfort Mayor
When Glenn George first took on the role of mayor in Melfort about a year ago, he didn't realize how much the pandemic would impact the job."I'm working at it twice as hard as I ever thought I'd have ...
Nov 19, 2021
Health Canada approves Pfizer vaccine for kids aged 5-11
Some kids in Saskatchewan soon could be rolling up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine.Health Canada announced Friday it has approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for kids aged five to 11. Previou...
Nov 19, 2021
Health Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 11
OTTAWA - Indoor birthday parties and maskless classrooms could be nearly within reach for kids now that Health Canada has approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11. Provinces co...
Nov 19, 2021
Canada has thrown away at least one million COVID-19 vaccine doses: survey
An informal survey shows that at least one million doses of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine supply have gone to waste. The Canadian Press asked health ministries across the country to provide the number of ...
Nov 19, 2021
More than 13K COVID cases in Sask. have been kids under 11
More than one-sixth of Saskatchewan's COVID-19 cases to date have been children under the age of 11.On Thursday, the provincial government's COVID dashboard changed the age groups of cases, separating...
Nov 18, 2021
BUH Foundation's Festival of Trees to kick off holiday season
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." That is the theme for this year's 2021 Festival of Trees; one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) Foundation,...
Nov 18, 2021
Feds to announce approval of kids' COVID-19 vaccine, easing of border measures Friday
OTTAWA - The federal government is set to announce Friday that Health Canada has approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11, then later detail plans to ease some of the pandemic-relate...
Nov 18, 2021
Trudeau calls Three Amigos summit 'extremely effective,' but Biden unmoved on EVs
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to claim a moral victory Thursday after his day at the White House did little to defuse an escalating continental dispute over President Joe Biden's pl...
Nov 18, 2021