Tag Archives: Health
The Streets: Ottawa faces calls to step up on veteran homelessness
OTTAWA - Dan Campbell and Benjamin Van Eck were fast friends while serving in 2 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. The pair were "Stuck at the hip," as Campbell describes it, during months of training an...
Nov 07, 2021
'It's going to be crazy': Snowbirds at campground eager for U.S. border reopening
MILK RIVER, Alta. - Nearly two years of being caged in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic has some snowbirds anxiously waiting in their motorhomes and trailers in southern Alberta. The Eight Flags Ca...
Nov 06, 2021
Canadians set back clocks this weekend as debate over seasonal time changes continues
Most Canadians have the chance to catch up on some sleep when clocks move back an hour Sunday, but an Ontario politician is optimistic it could be the last time for the country's most populous provinc...
Nov 06, 2021
Business greets Canada-U.S. border opening as glass half full due to testing rule
OTTAWA - Monday's reopening of the Canada-U.S. land border is sparking a mixed reaction among Canadian business leaders: They're excited that people and not just goods will be crossing the border agai...
Nov 06, 2021
Sask. mayors say changes to social assistance program, contributing to increase in homelessness
More than 4,000 people on social assistance, did not pay their rent in September or October, according to a recent report from the Saskatchewan Landlords' Association.The report was highlighted in a p...
Nov 05, 2021
SHA employee vaccine program to start this month
This month, all Saskatchewan Health Authority employees will have to either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to a testing program on their own dime.In mid-October, employees had to decla...
Nov 05, 2021
Province reports 141 new cases of COVID-19, two deaths
The Government of Saskatchewan has announced 141 new cases of COVID-19 in the province.The new cases in northern Saskatchewan are located in the Far North West (two), Far North East (two), North West ...
Nov 05, 2021
British Columbia phasing out mink farms because of COVID-19 spread
VICTORIA - The threat that mink farms in British Columbia would become a "reservoir" for COVID-19 infections is too great a health hazard, prompting the government to phase out of all the farms, the p...
Nov 05, 2021
Free menstrual products coming to on-reserve schools: Indigenous Services minister
Free menstrual products will be available in on-reserve schools "very soon," the federal Indigenous Services minister said on Friday. "Period poverty should never be a barrier to going to school. End ...
Nov 05, 2021
The Backlog: Thousands of veterans with disabilities are waiting years for support
OTTAWA - Nearly a dozen years ago, Micheal McNeil was hit with an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. The former combat engineer, who is now a 40-year-old father of three in Saint John, N.B., ...
Nov 05, 2021