Tag Archives: Health
NLSD offers contact tracing support in return for COVID case count data
The Northern Lights School Division (NLSD) is willing to assist with COVID-19 tracing if the Saskatchewan Health Authority returns to providing daily case count numbers to communities. A letter signed...
Feb 11, 2021
Unity business partners with CMHA Saskatoon for mental health fundraiser
A Unity business owner partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Saskatoon branch for a fundraiser to benefit mental health. Toni Bryan, owner of Hometown Designs Ltd., created T-sh...
Feb 11, 2021
Decline in new COVID cases in province, no new deaths
New COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan are once again hovering around triple figures with 114 new cases reported in the province today. Compared to the previous week, this is lower than other daily case t...
Feb 11, 2021
Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada set to more than quadruple next week
OTTAWA - A month-long slowdown in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the mi...
Feb 11, 2021
Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada set to more than quadruple next week
OTTAWA - A month-long slowdown in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date and almost two million doses ...
Feb 11, 2021
British Columbia seeks exemption from Ottawa on decriminalization as OD deaths soar
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is asking for a federal exemption to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use after more people died from overdoses in 2020 than any other y...
Feb 11, 2021
Feds roll out promised funding for LGBTQ groups to 76 organizations
OTTAWA - Seventy-six LGBTQ projects in Canada have received $15 million in federal money.The money follows up on a promise in the 2019 federal budget to set up a fund to encourage and support the deve...
Feb 11, 2021
O'Toole pledges detailed Tory climate plan will meet goals faster than Liberals
OTTAWA - The Conservative election platform will contain a climate-change plan that could cut greenhouse-gas emissions faster than the Liberals' plan will, party leader Erin O'Toole said Thursday.O'To...
Feb 11, 2021
Manitoba premier says his government will buy prospective Canadian vaccine directly
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is preparing to buy two million doses of a prospective Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine without going through the federal government. Premier Brian Pallister says the ...
Feb 11, 2021
Melfort health-care workers to get second dose of vaccinations on Friday
Health-care workers in Melfort will soon be getting their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.The first doses were administered to doctors at Parkland Place on a Thursday in January and staff at the h...
Feb 11, 2021