Tag Archives: Health

COVID-19 outbreaks in 23 First Nations prompting concerns
OTTAWA - Federal officials say the next two weeks will be crucial in trying to determine the scope and severity of the spread of COVID-19 in First Nations communities. Cases of the virus have begun to...
May 01, 2020

Patient at Victoria Hospital tests positive for COVID-19
A patient at the Victoria Hospital has tested positive for COVID-19.In a media release Friday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said there is currently no evidence of transmission within the facility...
May 01, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:12 p.m. Royal assent has been given to legislation authorizing $9 billion worth of emergency benefits for students who ...
May 01, 2020

Cameco distributes $1 million in COVID-19 relief
Describing the process as "humbling and overwhelming," the CEO of Cameco says they have supported 67 community projects with their recently announced $1 million COVID-19 Relief Fund.The uranium mining...
May 01, 2020 (Cameco.com)

Public transit prepping for new normal as cities and provinces start to reopen
The gradual reopening of Canada's economy will not mean business as usual for the country's public transit agencies. Despite the fact that a slowly growing number of workers will make their way b...
May 01, 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:  ...
May 01, 2020

As world waits for COVID-19 therapy, U.S. warily eyes Canada's drug-price plans
WASHINGTON - The United States is keeping Canada and its plans to overhaul its drug-pricing system on a "watch list" of countries deemed a peril to American intellectual property rights...
May 01, 2020

Canada takes baby steps toward normalcy; Quebec passes 2,000 COVID deaths
TORONTO - Canada took further baby steps toward post-pandemic normalcy on Friday as Atlantic provinces began easing rigid restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 scourge, while Quebec's death toll c...
May 01, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:03 p.m. on May 1, 2020: There are 55,061 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 28,648 confirmed (includi...
May 01, 2020

China likes Canada's 'cool head' amid U.S. 'smears' over COVID-19, says envoy
OTTAWA - China's envoy in Ottawa says that while the United States is "smearing" his country over COVID-19, the People's Republic appreciates Canada's "cool-headed" co-operation on battling the pandem...
May 01, 2020