Tag Archives: Health
COVID-19 positive person or persons were in Nipawin
Nipawin is one of the communities listed in the Saskatchewan Health Authority's latest COVID-19 exposure list.A person or person's who tested positive for the virus was in Nipawin on October 9 and was...
Oct 15, 2020
Feds can use spending power to fight anti-Indigenous racism in health care: Miller
OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to use its financial leverage over the health system to fight anti-Indigenous racism in health care, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says. He says tha...
Oct 15, 2020
Govts, companies shifted COVID risk management responsibility to individuals: study
TORONTO - A new Canadian study has found that over the first five months of 2020, government and corporate approaches to COVID-19 went from taking decisive, collective action against the pandemic to e...
Oct 15, 2020
Prince Albert Co-operative Health Centre closed due to COVID-19 outbreak
UPDATE: (Friday). The Co-operative Centre reported Friday the COVID-19 outbreak had ended and Public Health had cleared them to re-open. The health centre said it will be limiting in-clinic appointmen...
Oct 15, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:25 p.m. B.C. has recorded its first confirmed case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a child after antibody testing show...
Oct 15, 2020
'This year Halloween is only for kids': Quebec premier green-lights trick or treating
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault says kids will be able to go door to door and collect candy this Halloween -- as long as they trick or treat with members of their households. Adults, howeve...
Oct 15, 2020
Council approves permit for new cold weather shelter
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, local non-profit groups are moving ahead with plans to open a new cold weather shelter with support from Prince Albert city council.The city's politicians unanimou...
Oct 14, 2020
Pre-Cam closes due to positive case of coronavirus
The only elementary school in La Ronge is closed until further notice after a case of coronavirus was identified there.That's according to a letter released Wednesday to parents from Northern Lights S...
Oct 14, 2020
B.C. Supreme Court tosses parents' challenge of province's school reopening plans
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has dismissed an application by two parents who wanted the province to implement tougher COVID-19 safety measures before schools reopened...
Oct 14, 2020
NITHA announces COVID-19 outbreak at Red Earth Cree Nation
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the Red Earth Cree Nation.Public health said in a release that individuals that have tested positive were at a wedding ev...
Oct 14, 2020