Tag Archives: Health
'Joints for Jabs:' Company offering cannabis prizes to fully vaccinated Manitobans
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg-based cannabis producer and retailer is hoping to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake with a chance to win free joints. Delta 9's "Joints for Jabs" program is giving away three ...
Jun 22, 2021
Risk-assessment tool for fully vaccinated people coming soon, Tam promises
OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she'll soon have advice to help fully vaccinated Canadians figure out what they can safely do, but it won't be a blanket list of dos and don't...
Jun 22, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8 p.m. Yukon is recording eight new COVID-19 cases. Chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley says in a news release there...
Jun 22, 2021
Two-thirds of Canadians say governments shouldn't lift all COVID-19 restrictions
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests about two-thirds of Canadians believe that governments should not lift all restrictions related to COVID-19. Sixty-nine per cent of respondents to an online survey by Lege...
Jun 22, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Monday, June 21, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 11:00 p.m. ET on Monday June 21, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 394,799 new vaccinations administered for a total of 32,566,03...
Jun 21, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, June 21, 2021
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday June 21, 2021. Some provinces and territories do not report daily case numbers. There are 1,409,607 confirmed case...
Jun 21, 2021
PHAC president rebuked, still doesn't produce documents on fired scientists
OTTAWA - The Conservatives are asking that the Public Health Agency of Canada's offices be searched after a public shaming of the agency's president failed to persuade him to turn over unredacted docu...
Jun 21, 2021
Battlefords, Meadow Lake area programs receive support from CIF grants announced
A number of Battlefords and Meadow Lake area programs for families will receive support from the Community Initiatives Fund (CIF) grants just announced.In total, the province provided an emergency sup...
Jun 21, 2021
Lowest new COVID-19 case number since Nov. 4, 2020 reported
Just 48 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Saskatchewan on Monday, which is the lowest one-day total since Nov. 4. The province did however say vaccine reporting numbers have returned to a 48-hour re...
Jun 21, 2021
COVID-19: Quebec coroner's inquest told of 'dehydrated' long-term care residents
MONTREAL - Some residents of a Montreal-area long-term care home likely died of dehydration during the first wave of COVID-19 in the province, an occupational therapist told a Quebec coroner's inquest...
Jun 21, 2021