Tag Archives: Health
Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report
Canada surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as infections continued to surge while the vaccine rollout reached its final province. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim th...
Dec 19, 2020
First New Brunswick vaccinations begin at nursing home in Miramichi
MIRAMICHI, N.B. - New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least. Pauli...
Dec 19, 2020
AFSC Podcast focuses on embracing importance of mental health
RED DEER, Alta. – Agriculture Financial Services Corporation has two new AFSC Podcast episodes to close out 2020- this two-part interview is on a very important topic, in agriculture and for thi...
Dec 19, 2020
Regina woman offers first-hand look at getting COVID vaccine
What is it like to get a COVID-19 vaccine?One Regina woman thinks it's fairly similar to getting any other kind of vaccine.Jill Straker works at the drive-through COVID testing site on the grounds of ...
Dec 19, 2020
COVID contact tracers encountering ‘fear, anxiety, confusion’
Contact tracers across the province have had their detective hats on to try and determine how COVID-19 is spreading.Contact tracers are tasked with finding out where community transfer of the virus is...
Dec 19, 2020
Anglin Lake receives fun new upgrade
Plans for a new playground at Anglin Lake's Ed Greenop Park are sliding into place.At their most recent meeting, the District of Lakeland council approved the design. Administrator Tammy Knuttila told...
Dec 19, 2020
A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world's poor: Gould
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could - wrestling a sizable increase in C...
Dec 19, 2020
Carole James, former B.C. finance minister, says she was driven to give back
VICTORIA - Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last ...
Dec 19, 2020
Harold's IGA could reopen soon after some employees test positive for COVID-19
Harold's IGA grocery store in Prince Albert says there is a "strong probability" they will reopen Saturday after a pair of employees tested positive for COVID-19 this week forcing them to shut down te...
Dec 18, 2020
Hope spreads throughout the province ahead of the holiday season
Although Christmas holidays will be different this year, we still have hope.Hope was the message a Melfort nurse decided to spread in the community with lights on a balcony at the hospital and that ha...
Dec 18, 2020