Tag Archives: Health
COVID-19 restrictions extended to Feb. 5 in B.C. to 'hold the line'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor says COVID-19 restrictions that were set to expire Friday have been extended to Feb. 5. Dr. Bonnie Henry announced the extension while reporting eight more dea...
Jan 07, 2021
Melfort Hospital welcomes new year's baby
The Melfort Hospital has it's new year's baby.Maverick Dwayne Cross was born on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 8:03 a.m. to mom Meaghan and dad Brody Cross of Carrot River.Maverick was born at nine pounds, thre...
Jan 07, 2021
First COVID vaccines given in Prince Albert
The light at the end of the long COVID tunnel is now visible in Prince Albert.The first recipients at the start of the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the city Thursday included health care...
Jan 07, 2021
At least two senators left country amid COVID-19 pandemic, five not saying
OTTAWA - Sen. Don Plett is facing calls for his resignation as Conservative leader in the Senate after choosing to vacation in Mexico over the holidays.But Plett is not the only senator who travelled ...
Jan 07, 2021
Province records 334 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths
The Government of Saskatchewan has announced as of today there have been 4,832 COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered in the province.This includes 2,069 Pfizer doses in the Regina pilot program and 233 sec...
Jan 07, 2021
Far North East to receive Moderna vaccine, after previously being excluded from rollout plans
When the Saskatchewan government initially announced its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans in December, it didn't include the Far North East region to receive it in the rollout's first stage. However, th...
Jan 07, 2021
Health-care professionals ready to help but some say vaccine rollout too slow
VANCOUVER - Marcia Carr returned to nursing during the first wave of the pandemic after four years in retirement and now wants to "hit the ground running" to help vaccinate as many people as possible....
Jan 07, 2021
Canadian snowbirds flock to vaccinate in Florida as rollouts lag north of the border
OTTAWA - Snowbirds are rushing to get inoculated against COVID-19 down south as provincial vaccine rollouts lag north of the border. While many of the roughly one million Canadians who flock to sunnie...
Jan 07, 2021
Quebec COVID curfew raises concerns over enforcement, profiling, advocates say
MONTREAL - Civil rights advocates on Thursday expressed concern Quebec's new provincewide curfew is not justified by science and will be enforced in a way that will have a disproportionate impact on r...
Jan 07, 2021
Education said key in overcoming health-care worker opposition to COVID-19 vaccine
TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of thos...
Jan 07, 2021