Tag Archives: Health
'We're ready to go': Calgary Stampede to kick off with enhanced safety measures
CALGARY - The rides are up, the stuffed animals are displayed at the games tables and concession booths are loaded with supplies. Forced by the pandemic to cancel last year for the first time in its h...
Jul 09, 2021
Sask. wedding industry prepares for restrictions lift
As of Sunday at midnight, all mandated COVID-19 related restrictions in Saskatchewan will come to an end, which affects people who have planning their weddings and the businesses that host and plan th...
Jul 08, 2021
City of Melfort adjusting as provincial COVID-19 restriction lift on Sunday
As Saskatchewan's COVID-19 restrictions are removed as of Sunday, July 11, the City of Melfort is adjusting accordingly.The city's director of Development, Planning, and Community Relations Brent Lutz...
Jul 08, 2021
Canada monitoring 'whole slew' of variants, says chief public health officer
OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the latest variant of interest in the COVID-19 pandemic has popped up in Canada in small numbers, but it's too early to know how widespread it...
Jul 08, 2021
Extending pandemic jobs program aimed to cost extra $600 million, PBO says
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says extending a pandemic measure designed to avoid layoffs at companies will cost the federal treasury almost $600 million over three years. Most of the extr...
Jul 08, 2021
Human rights complaint alleges First Nation adults with disabilities left behind
WINNIPEG - Three human rights complaints have been filed against the federal government alleging systemic discrimination and a failure to provide proper services to First Nations adults with disabilit...
Jul 08, 2021
Canada not doomed to fourth wave of COVID-19, doctors say, despite U.K.'s experience
OTTAWA - A fourth wave of COVID-19 now surging across the United Kingdom doesn't have to become a reality in Canada as long as people keep getting vaccinated as quickly as possible, some infectious di...
Jul 08, 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...
Jul 08, 2021
NDP calling for provincial support to boost vaccine uptake in Far North
Saskatchewan's NDP are calling for more supports in the Far North after a recent COVID-19 outbreak. "This is a crisis, and this government needs to act," said Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette in a press ...
Jul 07, 2021
'I still stand by my freedom of rights': former care home worker speaks out after losing job for attending freedom rally
A woman who lost her job at a long term care home in Melfort after attending a freedom rally in Prince Albert last spring, says it was never her intention to hurt anyone.Jackie Marshall and her adult ...
Jul 07, 2021