Tag Archives: Health
Canada to donate 10M unused Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses to poor countries
OTTAWA - Canada is donating all 10 million doses of the single-dose vaccine that it purchased from Johnson & Johnson but won't use to low and middle-income countries. International Development Min...
Aug 12, 2021
A look at COVID-19 reopening plans across the country
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase, the provinces and territories have been releasing their reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities. Most of the plans are based on each ...
Aug 12, 2021
Saskatchewan Medical Association calls for mandatory vaccines for all health-care workers
With a recent uptick of COVID-19 cases in the province, the Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) is calling for mandatory vaccinations for all health-care workers.Many Saskatchewan physicians are as...
Aug 11, 2021
Prince Albert lawyer determined to lower human rights complaints in the province
Saskatchewan's interim chief commissioner of the Human Rights Commission says he hopes to bring a northern perspective to human rights issues. Barry Wilcox has worked in Prince Albert his entire law c...
Aug 11, 2021
Awareness walk from Sweetgrass First Nation tackling addictions
A group from Sweetgrass First Nation are trying to set a new course for families that have dealt with addiction over generations.Residents and motorists in the Battlefords likely saw a glimpse of the ...
Aug 11, 2021
Feds say vaccine passports for foreign travel will roll out in early fall
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says fully vaccinated Canadians will soon be able to get a government document that will certify their COVID-19 vaccine history for the purpose of interna...
Aug 11, 2021
Province confirms 90 new COVID cases, 682 currently active across Sask.
The province reported another 90 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, 24 of which are in the Far North East zone. No new deaths were reported but the daily and seven-day average of case numbers ...
Aug 11, 2021
More than 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses now stockpiled in Canadian freezers
OTTAWA - Canada has gone from being desperate for every dose of vaccine it could get to stockpiling millions of them in freezers across the country. Data on vaccine deliveries, distribution and inject...
Aug 11, 2021
A look at COVID-19 reopening plans across the country
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational faciliti...
Aug 11, 2021
China sentences Canadian to 11 years in case tied to Huawei
DANDONG, China (AP) - A Canadian entrepreneur was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday in a spy case linked to Beijing's effort to push his country to release an executive of tech giant Huawei, p...
Aug 10, 2021