Tag Archives: Health
RCMP union will support Mounties who shun COVID-19 vaccination despite federal order
OTTAWA - The union representing RCMP officers says it will support decisions by members "to be vaccinated or not" against COVID-19 following a federal order that Mounties be immunized. The Liberal gov...
Oct 08, 2021
Public health measures working, reason for optimism in fight against fourth wave: Tam
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer shot a dose of optimism into the fight against COVID-19 Friday, saying measures introduced to stem the worst of the spread in Saskatchewan and Alberta app...
Oct 08, 2021
Saskatchewan not asking for COVID-19 help, yet
Saskatchewan hospitals are full of COVID patients and on Thursday there were 78 people reported in ICU, which is one off the number of ICU beds the province has on a normal day.But at a news conferenc...
Oct 08, 2021
'I can't back down' on COVID-19 vaccine message, says threatened B.C. politician
VANCOUVER - Politicians accustomed to sparring in British Columbia's legislature have joined forces outside the house to push for higher vaccination rates in the north, but a longtime member of the Op...
Oct 08, 2021
Rapid tests coming to Prince Albert area schools
A new supply of 475,000 self-tests is being rolled across the province to Saskatchewan elementary schools, but they are being snatched up almost upon arrival.According to last week's announcement from...
Oct 07, 2021
Prince Albert Grand Council to receive specialty van to expand healthcare
A new specialty van for further medical care in the northern communities in Saskatchewan will soon be operational for the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC).Paved to Pines, a Prince Albert based compa...
Oct 07, 2021
COVID-19 shot 'could save your life,' RCMP boss says after federal vaccination order
OTTAWA - RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is publicly touting vaccination against COVID-19 following the Liberal government's announcement that Mounties must be immunized. In a tweet Thursday, Lucki urg...
Oct 07, 2021
Chief of Joyce Echaquan's community says trust in Quebec health-care system returning
JOLIETTE, Que. - Members of an Atikamekw community northeast of Montreal are slowly regaining their trust in Quebec's health-care system, a year after Joyce Echaquan died in a hospital northeast of Mo...
Oct 07, 2021
Government consulting with remote Indigenous communities about mandatory vaccines
OTTAWA - The federal government is working on exemptions to its newly released mandatory vaccine policy for people in remote Indigenous communities, many of which are only accessible by airplane. The ...
Oct 07, 2021
Nadia Chaudhri, neuroscientist who shared her journey with cancer, dies at 43
MONTREAL - Nadia Chaudhri, the Montreal neuroscientist who gained a worldwide following while spending her dying months raising funds for scientists from under-represented backgrounds, has died at age...
Oct 07, 2021