Tag Archives: Health
Peer pressure, public messaging will affect behaviour when rules loosen: experts
TORONTO - Peer pressure and public messaging will influence Canadians' ability and willingness to maintain safe behaviours as restrictions around COVID-19 begin to loosen, some experts say a...
May 08, 2020
Supplies, food a concern as northern Saskatchewan deals with COVID-19 outbreak
REGINA - Questions about access to supplies are emerging as health officials and community leaders work to contain spread of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan's far north. The region has seen a spike in c...
May 08, 2020
Canada pushes African debt relief to ward off COVID-19 economic crisis: minister
OTTAWA - Canada's development minister says the government is pushing international actors to provide debt relief in Africa and other less-developed regions to help fight threats of hunger, econo...
May 08, 2020
Air Ronge Co-op reopens after COVID-19 test comes back negative
Lake Country Co-op wants the public to know team members at the Air Ronge C-Store are well and there are no cases of COVID-19 at the store. The store suddenly closed Wednesday and, in an official stat...
May 08, 2020 The store was closed for approximately a day and a half. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Despite jarring jobs numbers, Canada, U.S. plotting different exit strategies
WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...
May 08, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak at Victoria Hospital declared over
The COVID-19 outbreak at the Prince Albert Victoria Hospital is now over according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority. The outbreak was initially declared on April 30 after an inpatient tested posit...
May 08, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Bears add two Wildcats to their squad
This week, the Prince Albert Northern Bears added two players from the Warman Wildcats to their roster for next season. The Bears added defenceman Jacquelyne Chief on Thursday night, after adding her ...
May 08, 2020 Jacquelyne Chief signs with the Prince Albert Northern Bears. (Facebook, Prince Albert Northern Bears)
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8 p.m. B.C.'s provincial health officer and health minister say the best thing people can do for their mother this Mother...
May 08, 2020
Wage-subsidy program to be extended as steep job losses continue, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - The federal government will extend its emergency wage-subsidy program beyond its early-June endpoint as new job figures showed historic losses since COVID-19 forced an economic...
May 08, 2020
Peter MacKay suggests Magnitsky Act should be used against China for COVID-19
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Peter MacKay is calling for use of the Magnitsky Act if specific individuals in China can be identified as having suppressed information related to COVID-19 A&...
May 08, 2020