Tag Archives: Health
New Brunswick reimposes state of emergency amid sudden surge in COVID-19 cases
FREDERICTON - As New Brunswick reimposed a state of emergency Friday to deal with a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases, a senior health official admitted the province was wrong to lift all health-protecti...
Sep 24, 2021
Residents of Saugeen First Nation given expired COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for weeks
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Canada gave residents of an Ontario First Nation 71 expired doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 between Aug. 9 and Sept. 15. According to a statement from the Saugeen...
Sep 24, 2021
School disruption, 'long COVID,' all factors in choice to vaccinate young kids: Tam
OTTAWA - When most parents decided to have kids, they probably thought some of their bigger parenting decisions would be about sleep-training, extracurricular activities or the right age to get a phon...
Sep 24, 2021
'People will suffer and will die': Emergency doctor says some health triage has begun
EDMONTON - The head of emergency medicine for the Alberta Medical Association, Dr. Paul Parks, says major components of triage have already begun in Alberta - an assertion disputed by the province. Th...
Sep 24, 2021
Effect of health-care slowdown worries SHA
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the middle of putting the brakes on most surgeries and services in the province to try to make enough room for COVID-19 patients today and in the near future.An...
Sep 24, 2021
'It's very dangerous': NDP leader calls for more support for Prince Albert's healthcare system
Saskatchewan's Opposition leader said Prince Albert's healthcare system is buckling under the pressure of the fourth wave of COVID-19.NDP Leader Ryan Meili was in the city Thursday meeting with health...
Sep 23, 2021
Sad reality: Alberta top doc says COVID deaths keeping hospitals from being overrun
EDMONTON - The head of Alberta's health system says the COVID-19 hospital crisis has become so dire, a key reason the system hasn't collapsed is because patients are dying. "Each day we see a new high...
Sep 23, 2021
Premiers urge Trudeau to meet with them ASAP on health-care funding
CHILLIWACK - Canada's premiers are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with them at his earliest opportunity to discuss long-term, predictable funding for health care. Premiers from all the p...
Sep 23, 2021
Prince Albert's poverty problem: is there an answer?
During Thursday's Board of Police Commissioners meeting, amidst discussion of the need to address the root causes that are driving up the city's crime rate, the executive director of the Indian Metis ...
Sep 23, 2021
Premiers push for more unconditional health-care funding from feds
OTTAWA - Canada's premiers are demanding a meeting with the newly re-elected prime minister to ask for more money - no strings attached - to pump into their health-care systems. The provincial and ter...
Sep 23, 2021