Tag Archives: Health
Sask. hopes to soon resume some cancelled health services, including organ donation
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has released a plan that will include the resumption of a variety of health services that were paused across the province as healthcare workers were redeployed to hel...
Nov 09, 2021
Health Canada approves Pfizer booster for 18+ age group
Health Canada has approved the use of Pfizer's Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for booster shots for everyone 18 and over.The boosters are to be given at least six months after a person received their seco...
Nov 09, 2021
More work to be done as Canada ranks sixth in global drug policy index: experts
CALGARY - Canada ranks sixth in the world's first drug policy index, but experts say its passing grade is nothing to be proud of as status quo policies are doing little to curb thousands of deaths yea...
Nov 09, 2021
Sask. woman in dire need of kidney blames government for surgery suspension
Jessica Bailey was getting ready to get her life-saving kidney transplant this past summer.She and her donor had gone through a year of testing and some unfortunate setbacks, but they had the green li...
Nov 09, 2021
Pfizer-BioNTech gets approval for COVID-19 booster vaccine in Canada
OTTAWA - Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18, though third doses have already been given to high-risk people across the country. Th...
Nov 09, 2021
O'Toole reveals his shadow cabinet, former leadership rival Leslyn Lewis not included
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole returned Pierre Poilievre to his old job as finance critic, but left former leadership rival Leslyn Lewis off the Opposition's front bench as he released the ...
Nov 09, 2021
Quebec's Nunavik region struggling with COVID, has highest infection rate in province
MONTREAL - The health board governing Quebec's Nunavik region says the COVID-19 situation in the northern territory is worse than it's ever been. Health officials reported 30 new cases Monday across t...
Nov 09, 2021
'We miss our friends': N.Y. town eager for Canadians to return as land border reopens
MONTREAL - Residents of a New York border town say they're eager to welcome Canadians now that the United States has eased land border restrictions, but they worry that costly COVID-19 testing rules w...
Nov 09, 2021
The Money: Today's veterans fighting Ottawa for equality with previous generations
OTTAWA - When his son was nearly killed by an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan in 2010, Jim Scott had no idea he was about to embark on a multi-year legal battle with the federal government on behal...
Nov 09, 2021
Yukon to introduce proof-of-vaccination in response to rising COVID-19 cases
WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government has declared a state of emergency and announced a series of public health rules aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, including a proof-of-vaccination requirement ...
Nov 08, 2021