Tag Archives: Health
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
Yukon's chief medical officer announced as federal Liberal candidate
WHITEHORSE - Yukon's chief medical officer of health has been nominated as the candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the territory for the next federal election. Dr. Brendan Hanley says he can ...
Aug 10, 2021
Mendicino-Mayorkas meeting readout makes no mention of Canada-U.S. travel imbalance
WASHINGTON - Canada's immigration minister talked Canada-U.S. border issues Monday with the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the federal government's official account of the ...
Aug 10, 2021
Merriman unworried about slow vaccination rates
From the peak of 22,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered in one day in June to just over 850 doses reported Tuesday, the pace of vaccinations has been going down in Saskatchewan.That isn't a worry for...
Aug 10, 2021
Province reports 65 new cases in province, 536 new cases in last seven days
As of August 10, there are 65 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 50,679 reported cases; 634 cases considered active and 49,461 cases considered recovered.There are currently 269 ac...
Aug 10, 2021