Tag Archives: Health
13 Red Deer Olymel employees test negative for COVID-19
Officials with Olymel say all 13 of the employees at their Red Deer pork processing facility who were sent for COVID-19 tests after another worker tested positive have been cleared to return to work. ...
Aug 20, 2020
Montreal groups collect race-based COVID-19 data after Quebec flip-flops
MONTREAL - Community groups in Montreal say they had no choice but to go at it alone after the Quebec government went back on a pledge to collect race-based data to help trace the impact of COVID-19 o...
Aug 20, 2020
Teeing off for a good cause
Neechie Gear Founder Kendal Netmaker says he fully supports young leaders and a big part of that development is ensuring they have healthy role models.Netmaker was among the participants in a special ...
Aug 20, 2020
Health sciences association, SAHO ratify deal
The Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan (HSAS) and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations have ratified a new six-year contract.The new collective bargaining agreement is retroac...
Aug 20, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 20
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:10 p.m. on Aug. 20, 2020: There are 123,873 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,402 confirmed (including 5,730 deaths, 54,383 resol...
Aug 20, 2020
Liberals move toward changing federal drug policy as opioid deaths spike
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is taking steps toward promised changes to federal drug policy, while looking at how to reduce opioid-related deaths during the pandemic. The federal government launche...
Aug 20, 2020
‘The shame of the country:’ 2020s reported overdose deaths tentatively break records, and it’s only August
Prairie Harm Reduction Executive Director Jason Mercredi says overdose deaths in Saskatchewan are "the epidemic within the pandemic.""We need real-time action, and we need it now," Mercredi told 650 C...
Aug 19, 2020
FSIN calling for answers after alleged mistreatment of 53-year-old woman at Victoria Hospital
Warning: This story contains graphic images.Members of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) are searching for answers from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), after a James Smith...
Aug 19, 2020
Battleford and Poundmaker Cree Nation approve water supply agreement
Battleford, Poundmaker Cree Nation (PCN) and Indigenous Services Canada have come to a Water Supply Agreement, which will result in the construction of a pipeline supplying potable water to PCN.The ag...
Aug 19, 2020
Tuberculosis found in person who was at Melfort McDonald's
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has confirmed that there's been a case of tuberculosis in Melfort.An email to northeastNOW from the SHA didn't say specifically where the case was in the city, ...
Aug 19, 2020