Tag Archives: Health
Canada probing whether delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses could help more people
OTTAWA - Canada is the latest country to investigate how to stretch vaccine doses as far as possible, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have tragic consequences all around the world.Dr. Theresa Ta...
Jan 05, 2021
MLCN ends lockdown status
The lockdown status at Montreal Lake Cree Nation (MLCN) has now been downgraded to restricted access.Since 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve, band members were not allowed to leave the community, but now they ...
Jan 05, 2021
Trudeau says he too is frustrated by holiday travellers, pace of vaccine rollout
OTTAWA - Signs pointed Tuesday to the COVID-19 pandemic taking a dark turn in Canada, as the prime minister voiced his own frustration with holiday travel and the slow pace of vaccine rollout. In Lond...
Jan 05, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak declared at Stanley Mission
Public officials with the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority are declaring a COVID-19 outbreak in Stanley Mission after a number of cases arose from private gatherings on Dec. 25 and Dec. 31. Heal...
Jan 05, 2021
Hope and the Future: despite challenging year local MP looking forward to 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget, but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories."I would say probably one...
Jan 05, 2021
Quebec City long-term care employee in his 50s dies from COVID-19
MONTREAL - The worker at a Quebec City long-term care home who died of COVID-19 on Jan. 2 was one of the thousands of people who answered the province's call to be trained as patient attendants over t...
Jan 05, 2021
Canadian troops test positive for COVID-19 in Latvia and Kuwait
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak in Latvia, where an unspecified number of troops have tested positive for the illness while guarding against Russian aggression i...
Jan 05, 2021
The latest on COVID-19 developments in Canada on Jan. 5, 2021
OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):7:45 p.m.British Columbia has again extended its state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic nearly 10 month...
Jan 05, 2021
VIDO-InterVac prepares for human trials with COVID-19 vaccine
It's the kind of start to a new year that researchers at Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac were hoping for.CEO Volker Gerdts says they are days away from the first human testing with the COVID vaccine they've...
Jan 05, 2021
Nunavut NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq returns from leave after 'burnout, depression'
OTTAWA - Nunavut's sole MP says she is back on the job after several months away from work due to what she described as "extreme burnout, depression and anxiety." Mumilaaq Qaqqaq announced in late Oct...
Jan 05, 2021