Tag Archives: Health
Health Canada approves Spartan Bioscience's previously recalled rapid COVID-19 test
TORONTO - The federal government has approved an Ottawa company's made-in-Canada rapid COVID-19 test, Health Canada confirmed Saturday as the nation's top doctor warned the virus's impact on the healt...
Jan 24, 2021
'It wasn't called COVID at the time:' One year since Canada's first COVID-19 case
TORONTO - The patient, when he came into the hospital ER with what seemed to be mild pneumonia, wasn't that sick and might otherwise have been sent home. Except the man had just returned from China, w...
Jan 24, 2021
Drug users at greater risk of dying as services scale back in second wave of COVID-19
OTTAWA - Under fluorescent lights, Wendy Muckle surveys the supervised consumption site that sits in quiet contrast to Ottawa's peppy ByWard Market nearby. Users filter into the brick building - dubbe...
Jan 24, 2021
Province adminstered 96 per cent of vaccines received; 274 new cases, 306 recoveries, three deaths
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) announced on Saturday they have administered 96 per cent of the vaccines they have received so far from the federal government. According to Saturday's press re...
Jan 23, 2021
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole defends decision to back, then oust, Sloan
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he was once willing to give his former leadership rival Derek Sloan the benefit of the doubt, but no longer. And he dismissed the idea that kicking Sloan...
Jan 23, 2021
COVID-19 identified in one classroom at Carlton
"Individual(s)" have tested positive for COVID-19 at Carlton Comprehensive High School. Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division director of education Robert Bratvold made the announcement late Frid...
Jan 23, 2021
'Without them guys there’s no way that I would survive': P.A. man thanks first responders after surviving cardiac arrest
Prince Albert's Cliff Quiring is alive to tell the tale and thank the first responders who saved his life.Late in the afternoon one day last month the 61-year-old wasn't feeling very well when he got ...
Jan 23, 2021
Non-essential travel ban would violate Constitution but courts might allow it: expert
MONTREAL - Fear that Quebecers will catch a new variant of COVID-19 on vacation is what's driving demands by the Quebec premier for Ottawa to ban non-essential flights to the country. Premier Francois...
Jan 23, 2021
COVID-19 deaths in long-term care reveal need for home supports: advocates
VANCOUVER - The devastating toll of COVID-19 on long-term care residents in Canada has underscored the need for increased public funding for home care, advocates say. Most seniors want to stay at home...
Jan 23, 2021
Couple charged after travelling to Yukon to get COVID-19 vaccine
WHITEHORSE - A cabinet minister says a couple from outside Yukon travelled to a remote community in the territory this week and received doses of COVID-19 vaccine.Community Services Minister John Stre...
Jan 22, 2021