Tag Archives: Health
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
Nunavut starts offering COVID-19 vaccine boosters to those 12 and older
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut has started offering COVID-19 vaccine boosters to residents who are ages 12 and older. People who want the third shot must have received their second dose of vaccine at leas...
Nov 05, 2021
PCR test requirements at the border need to be re-examined: Tam
OTTAWA - Test requirements for travellers vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Canadian border need to be re-examined, particularly for short trips, says the country's top doctor. On Friday the Canadian...
Nov 05, 2021
Pandemic likely to continue through the winter, says Canada's top doctor
OTTAWA - While the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is slowly ebbing away, Canada's top doctor said that doesn't mean the pandemic is likely to end this winter - even with widespread vaccinations....
Nov 05, 2021
Province, North Battleford advocate carbon monoxide awareness
As Saskatchewan residents prepare for winter, doing a quick safety check is in everyone's best interest.The province designated November 1-7 as Carbon Monoxide (CO) Awareness Week to highlight the imp...
Nov 05, 2021
'They're afraid they won't come back:' Petition wants elder care in Nunavut
IQALUIT - Aani Uqaitu hasn't been able to see her 89-year-old mother for six months since she was sent to a long-term care home 1,200 kilometres away from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. Uqaitu's mother, who has...
Nov 05, 2021