Tag Archives: Health
Alberta leadership responsible for protests against public health orders: expert
EDMONTON - A criminologist says a recent court order that allows Alberta RCMP to arrest organizers of anti-lockdown rallies can limit or prevent future gatherings but does little to educate people who...
May 14, 2021
Experts call on Canada to use COVAX doses of AstraZeneca or give them back
OTTAWA - Some health experts are questioning Canada's decision to accept thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from a global vaccine-sharing alliance, only to have them sit in freezers ...
May 14, 2021
If COVID vaccines 'essential,' Canadians could get shots in U.S. and no quarantine
TORONTO - Canadian residents should be able to head to the United States for COVID-19 vaccinations and be exempt from mandatory quarantine on return if health authorities here deem the shots medically...
May 14, 2021
UPDATE: On Air For Healthcare Radiothon underway at local radio station: drive thru and donate
UPDATE: The On Air for Healthcare Radiothon is still going strong today as it gets close to the final lap! People are coming by the CJNB radio station parking lot drive-through drop-off site, calling ...
May 14, 2021
Nunavut officials plead for Iqaluit residents to stop gathering during COVID outbreak
IQALUIT - Nunavut's health minister says he wants Iqaluit residents to stop gathering so the city has a shot at a normal summer. Lorne Kusugak scolded residents Friday at a news conference as a COVID-...
May 14, 2021
Federal officials lay out road map for post-vaccine life as third wave ebbs
Federal health authorities laid out their vision of what life could look like after most Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19, just as regional officials warned some people may be getting ahead o...
May 14, 2021
New CDC guidance makes it clear: time to reopen Canada-U.S. border, congressman says
WASHINGTON - A U.S. lawmaker who has made a political crusade out of getting the border with Canada reopened is again pressing his case with President Joe Biden - and this time, he believes he has the...
May 14, 2021
Business, labour groups clash at Senate committee over $15 federal minimum wage
OTTAWA - The head of the country's largest private-sector union says Parliament should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and possibly put future increases into the hands of an independen...
May 14, 2021
Kenney distances himself from caucus vote to turf dissidents with 'personal agendas'
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he kept his distance in a debate over the fate of two outspoken backbenchers but believes his United Conservative caucus made the right decision to expel t...
May 14, 2021
Fewer flights land in Canada with COVID-19 since ban on planes from India, Pakistan
OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...
May 14, 2021