Tag Archives: Health
Community group contributes to hospice project
The Rose Garden Hospice is getting closer to becoming a reality.On Thursday afternoon at the Co-op Liquor Store in Cornerstone, WinesdaYPA, a local wine tasting group which raises money to support com...
Jun 04, 2020
Council approves new care home in East Flat
An East Flat personal care home is expanding.On Monday night, Prince Albert city council approved a development permit for a second residential care facility to be built beside the existing Mak Lodge....
Jun 04, 2020
Unions for health-care workers call on Sask. government to invest in frontline workers
Three unions that represent workers in the health-care field are calling on the Saskatchewan government to support health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing wages."Everybody is de...
Jun 04, 2020
One new case of COVID-19 in the province, recovery total at 608
There is one new case of COVID-19 in the province's Saskatoon region, bringing the total number of cases to 648. Meanwhile the province said it would have more information on the re-opening of playgro...
Jun 04, 2020
New Canadian modelling shows COVID-19 waning but relaxing restrictions still risky
OTTAWA - Canada's top doctor says the country has been successful at slowing the spread of COVID-19 but warns that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead to a rampant r...
Jun 04, 2020
Local NDP candidate critical of Saskatchewan assessment report on long-term care facilities
Battlefords provincial NDP candidate Amber Stewart is concerned about the latest Saskatchewan assessment report on long-term care facilities, many of which she believes are understaffed and underfunde...
Jun 04, 2020
New Brunswick's first COVID-19 death linked to nursing home outbreak
FREDERICTON - The first person in New Brunswick to die from COVID-19 is being remembered as a hard-working man whose top concern was taking care of his family. Daniel Ouellette, 84, died Thu...
Jun 04, 2020
Spiritual needs of vulnerable federal inmates unmet during pandemic: chaplains
OTTAWA - Federal prison chaplains say the spiritual needs of inmates have become an unnecessary casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when offenders are feeling particularly vulnerable and alone...
Jun 04, 2020
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...
Jun 04, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:31 p.m. on June 4, 2020: There are 93,726 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 52,143 confirmed (includ...
Jun 04, 2020