Tag Archives: Health
Feds change sick-leave benefit, applicants required to say if they travelled
OTTAWA - The federal government has ordered that anyone applying for COVID-19 benefits will need to report whether they have recently travelled outside of the country - though it isn't clear how it wi...
Jan 11, 2021
Forced to travel during pandemic, Nunavut women want birthing services at home
IQALUIT, Nunavut - In October, Collette Nilaulak gave birth, alone, to her third child in a hospital room about 1,200 kilometres from her home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Pandemic restrictions meant one...
Jan 10, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine arrives in remote First Nations across Canada
First Nations across Canada have begun to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines as provincial immunization programs get underway and Indigenous leaders encourage people to roll up their sleeves. Six of 1...
Jan 10, 2021
Curfew goes into effect in Quebec amid soaring COVID-19 case numbers across Canada
COVID-19 numbers continued to soar in many parts of Canada on Saturday as a long-standing pandemic hot spot imposed the country's strictest public health measures to date. Quebec Premier Francois Lega...
Jan 09, 2021
Mandatory online learning leaves single parents with impossible choice
Every day, Jessy Duncombe has to figure out how to put food on the table, help her two school-aged kids navigate the complexities of online learning, and keep her three-year-old daughter occupied and ...
Jan 09, 2021
Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate dies of COVID-19 complications
An inmate from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary died outside the hospital after "an apparent result of complications related to COVID-19," the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) announced Saturday. Thi...
Jan 09, 2021
Inmate vaccination plan rolls out; COVID spreads at Willow Cree Healing Lodge
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to federal inmates.The 600 doses were distributed Friday amongst Saskatoon's Regional Psychiatric Centre, the Regional Treatment Centre i...
Jan 09, 2021
They stayed the blazes home: Why East Coast politicians avoided COVID travel scandal
HALIFAX - While much of the rest of Canada was consumed with stories about politicians ignoring pandemic protocols and jetting south to sunny climes, Atlantic Canadians this week were puzzling over a ...
Jan 09, 2021
Victoria no longer flushes raw sewage into ocean after area opens treatment plant
VICTORIA - The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized poo...
Jan 09, 2021
Curfew now in effect across Quebec; heavy police presence expected
MONTREAL - Police cars with flashing lights were out in force in the streets of Montreal on Saturday night as a curfew meant to curb a rising tide of COVID-19 cases took effect across Quebec. The meas...
Jan 09, 2021