Tag Archives: Health
Quebec announces aid for bars, restaurants as COVID-19 restrictions take effect
MONTREAL - The Quebec government promised on Thursday financial support for bars and restaurants forced to close by the province's partial lockdown, but questions remain about how restrictions on soci...
Oct 01, 2020
Federal Liberals revive bill that seeks to outlaw forced LGBTQ conversion therapy
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have reintroduced a bill that would ban forcing children or adults to undergo therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation or gender identity. The government had pr...
Oct 01, 2020
Manitoba's chief public health officer discusses lessons learned during pandemic
WINNIPEG - A little more than six months into Manitoba's COVID-19 state of emergency, the province's chief public health officer says there have been lessons learned in terms of fighting the novel cor...
Oct 01, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 1
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:11 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2020: There are 160,542 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 75,221 confirmed (including 5,850 deaths, 63,144 re...
Oct 01, 2020
Mustangs cleared to resume hockey-related activities after positive COVID-19 test
The Melfort Mustangs are now able to get back onto the ice after having a player test positive for COVID-19 last week.The team said in a release sent out on Wednesday, Sept. 30 the team is cleared for...
Sep 30, 2020
Donations despite pandemic keep hospice association confident
To say Marina Mitchell has been on a long journey is an understatement. For 13 years, she's been fundraising to create the first stand-alone hospice in Saskatchewan here in Prince Albert. The idea for...
Sep 30, 2020
14 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan
There are 14 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 more recoveries in Saskatchewan today.The new cases are in the North East (one), Saskatoon (eight), Central West (one), Central East (two), and Regina (two) z...
Sep 30, 2020
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole lambastes Liberals' handing of pandemic
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole used his first speech in the House of Commons as party leader to lambaste the Liberal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In his formal repl...
Sep 30, 2020
Case of coronavirus appears in Little Red
A confirmed case of coronavirus has been identified on the Little Red reserve. That's according to a Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority Inc. (NITHA) media release, which states the individual is i...
Sep 30, 2020
Health Canada green-lights rapid COVID-19 test
OTTAWA - Health Canada has given the green light to a rapid test for COVID-19 that could be deployed to long-term care homes and schools to take pressure off provincial testing systems. But neither th...
Sep 30, 2020