Tag Archives: Health
Shahab encourages mask use, vaccination requirements as COVID cases rise
After nine straight days of new COVID cases exceeding over 100 per day, Saskatchewan's chief medical officer Dr. Saqib Shahab says that indoor mask use as well as limiting non-essential services to pe...
Aug 27, 2021
Saskatchewan Cancer Agency first in Canada to use new treatment
The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency (SCA) celebrated a milestone earlier in August when they used a new form of treatment for metastatic brain cancer. This was the first time a patient had undergone the ne...
Aug 27, 2021
Health Canada authorizes Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines for kids 12 to 17 years old
OTTAWA - Health Canada has finally given the green light for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to be used to inoculate kids as young as 12. The original approval for Moderna in December 2020 was only for peo...
Aug 27, 2021
Are Hot Dogs Are Doing Joey Chestnut Dirty?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! BION of the Week Ripley's is constantly on the hunt to find the strangest Believe It or Not! stories, or BIONs, to share with our fellow fans of the bizarr...
Aug 27, 2021
Quebec defends vaccine passport system after politicians' QR codes allegedly hacked
MONTREAL - Quebec's government was forced to defend its vaccine passport system on Friday amid news that prominent politicians' vaccination information had allegedly been hacked. The Health Department...
Aug 27, 2021
Second week of campaign ends with security worry
The Liberal campaign cancelled an early evening rally Friday after an unruly group of demonstrators denouncing Justin Trudeau and pandemic policies set off security concerns, with Trudeau himself sayi...
Aug 27, 2021
SHA reports multiple COVID exposures in Prince Albert
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning the public of multiple possible COVID-19 exposures in Prince Albert on multiple days.Harold's Family Foods Bakery Department - 200 28th St. E.Aug. 15 - 10 ...
Aug 26, 2021
Group of Canadian long-term care operators to enforce mandatory COVID-19 shot policy
A group of major Canadian long-term care operators will require all staff be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall, with those who don't take the shots being asked to go on unpaid leave. Chartwe...
Aug 26, 2021
No charges in case of Montreal-area private care home where dozens died of COVID-19
MONTREAL - A lawyer representing families of several residents of a Montreal-area long-term care home where dozens died of COVID-19 said the fight for justice isn't over, even as the prosecutor's offi...
Aug 26, 2021
Cybersecurity experts say Quebec vaccine passport safe, a model for the country
MONTREAL - Steven Lachance, a Montreal-based digital security analyst and entrepreneur, says he was worried when the Quebec government announced it would impose a vaccine passport system across the pr...
Aug 26, 2021