Tag Archives: Health
After COVID-related transplant delays, 16-year-old N.S. girl gets lung transplant
HALIFAX - A teenaged girl who set out with her grandmother and mother last spring on a 1,800-kilometre RV trip to seek her new lungs has received the life-changing operation in an era of COVID-related...
Nov 21, 2020
Trudeau's efforts to bring rivals onside falters in face of new COVID-19 modelling
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered. While Trudeau stood...
Nov 21, 2020
A long way from lab bench to bedside: Virus experts urge COVID-19 vaccine caution
Despite recent optimism over reported results from COVID-19 vaccine trials, virologists say there is still a long way from lab bench to bedside. "You would think by this stage of the pandemic we would...
Nov 20, 2020
Saskatchewan in ‘dangerous territory,’ says chief medical health officer
Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer says the province is experiencing its first true wave of COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March.Speaking on Gormley on Friday, Dr. Saqib Shahab said as ...
Nov 20, 2020
'Hardship is not a new thing': Nunavut fights COVID-19 as cases continue to rise
IQALUIT - It has been just over two weeks since Nunavut declared its first case of COVID-19, but it's still unknown how 84 people were infected so quickly in the territory. Nunavut is home to about 39...
Nov 20, 2020
Feds need better data on COVID-19 in Indigenous communities: Miller
OTTAWA - A rapid rise in the number of active COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities on reserve - especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan - likely does not tell the full story due to lack of data,...
Nov 20, 2020
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick impose new restrictions to stop COVID-19 spread
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia imposed new limits on gatherings across most of Halifax on Friday and New Brunswick moved Saint John into a higher alert level as Atlantic Canada's two biggest provinces tried to...
Nov 20, 2020
Province records another death, 153 new cases of COVID-19
A resident in their 80s from Saskatoon has died from COVID-19 bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 33.There are 153 new cases to report in Saskatchewan today, Nov. 20, which brings t...
Nov 20, 2020
COVID-19 case at John Paul II Collegiate
Light of Christ School Division (LCSD) is reporting a case of COVID-19 at John Paul II Collegiate High School in North Battleford.According to the statement from LCSD, Saskatchewan Health Authority of...
Nov 20, 2020
Melfort Heliport completed, Transport Canada to inspect by month’s end
The Melfort Heliport is nearly certified as an aerodrome in Canada.By the end of Friday, Nov. 20, all the work on the heliport located on the corner Higgins Ave W. and West Street will be complete and...
Nov 20, 2020