Tag Archives: Health
'Disturbing' long-term care home report doesn't come as surprise to families
Simon Nisbet is convinced that if he hadn't moved his mother out of her long-term care home, she would never have left alive. He said daily visits to her window at Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ont., le...
May 27, 2020
COVID-19 shows need for long-term-care reform but solve crisis first, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expects to have a comprehensive conversation with Canada's premiers about immediate and long-term reforms of the country's elder care system in light o...
May 27, 2020
'Don't be like Toronto:' Calgary mayor warns against large gatherings in parks
Calgary's mayor is warning citizens "don't be like Toronto" and congregate in large numbers in parks. Naheed Nenshi made the comment in reference to thousands of people who squeezed into a d...
May 26, 2020
Feds delay national action plan for missing and murdered Indigenous women
OTTAWA - The federal government will not be able to deliver a national action plan to make life safer for Indigenous women and girls next month as promised because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crown-Indi...
May 26, 2020
Canada outspends Ireland, Norway in new pledging on Venezuelan refugee crisis
OTTAWA - Canada outbid its two rivals for the United Nations Security Council at Tuesday's international pledging conference to help South American countries coping with the Venezuelan refug...
May 26, 2020
No new cases of COVID-19 in province, eighth death recorded
Another resident in the Far North region who tested positive for COVID-19 has died, bringing the provincial total to eight.The resident was in their 50s.An additional death remains under investigation...
May 26, 2020
Mental health and addictions shutdown could be learning opportunity: U of R prof
Services and programs across the Saskatchewan Health Authority had to be stopped or significantly slowed down because of COVID-19, either to follow the province's health orders or as part of the autho...
May 26, 2020
'Pointing out the obvious:' Alberta govt stands by energy minister's comments
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister isn't backing away from her comments that COVID-19's public health rules and economic fears favour pipeline construction. "I don't think anybody should be sur...
May 26, 2020
Military reports 'shocking' conditions in Ontario nursing homes
TORONTO - A new report from the military helping battle COVID-19 in five long-term care facilities in Ontario has revealed extreme neglect and exposed the extent of the ugly conditions facing resident...
May 26, 2020
Justin Trudeau says he'll take COVID-19 antibody test once available
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that once there's a test widely available to see who has had COVID-19, he'll take it. Trudeau was exposed to the novel coronavirus earlier this...
May 26, 2020