Tag Archives: Health
Feds hoping for AstraZeneca shots this week as Pfizer-BioNTech prepare next delivery
OTTAWA - The federal government hopes to start receiving doses of AstraZeneca's recently approved COVID-19 vaccine this week as the flood of shots that flowed into Canada from Pfizer-BioNTech and Mode...
Mar 01, 2021
B.C. public health rules discriminate against churches, lawyer argues
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a group of British Columbia churches that are challenging the province's COVID-19 rules prohibiting in-person religious services argued Monday the orders reflect a "value judg...
Mar 01, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 28, 2021. There are 866,503 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 866,503 confirmed cases (30,731 active, 813,...
Feb 28, 2021
1,662 new COVID-19 vaccine doses, 141 new cases, 146 recoveries, no deaths
There were 1,662 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Saturday in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 78,226.The 1,662 doses were administered in the ...
Feb 28, 2021
From lockdowns to spring break, provinces split on next steps in COVID-19 fight
Canada's COVID-19 hotspots showed diverging approaches to handling the crisis on Sunday, as Ontario and Prince Edward Island prepared for new lockdowns while Quebec entered a week of spring break comp...
Feb 28, 2021
Vaccine tourism is both unethical and bad for business, experts say
Executives who engage in so-called "vaccine tourism" show both an ethical disregard for those less fortunate and a surprising lack of business acumen, experts argue. Their comments came after the head...
Feb 28, 2021
Inuit midwives say they left after experiencing years of mistreatment
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Cas Augaarjuk Connelly and Rachel Qiliqti Kaludjak never wanted to stop working at a Nunavut birthing centre, but they say years of mistreatment, racism and a lack of support from t...
Feb 28, 2021
City of Melfort encouraging residents to be active during Go Out & Play Challenge
The City of Melfort is encouraging residents to be active by taking part in the 2021 Saskatchewan Blue Cross Go Out & Play Challenge.The community in the province that logs the most minutes of phy...
Feb 28, 2021
Kin Enterprises receives Power 99 FM Airtime Award
Kin Enterprises, the Prince Albert non-profit that supports people with intellectual disabilities, has secured this year's Power 99 FM Community Airtime Award.Each year the local Jim Pattison Broadcas...
Feb 28, 2021
On East Coast, exhausted COVID-19 'long haulers' hope specialized clinics will emerge
HALIFAX - On evenings when Sean Hoskin collapses into bed, heart pounding and mind foggy from his yearlong battle with COVID-19, he wonders when a clinic to treat his symptoms might emerge in Atlantic...
Feb 28, 2021