Tag Archives: Health

Construction of the new long-term care facility in La Ronge has reached the halfway mark. The update was provided in a provincial government news release issued on Tuesday. That was welcome news for f...

A family-run mental health organization is bringing life-saving skills to Meadow Lake on Feb. 27 and 28, offering a workshop to help individuals intervene when someone is experiencing thoughts of suic...

WINNIPEG - A judge has rejected the defence of a Manitoba man who claimed he was suffering from sexsomnia, a rare sleep disorder, when he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy. Provincial court Judge ...

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's national Inuit organization is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step in to save a program that helps fund services for Inuit kids. In a letter sent to Trudeau ...

MONTREAL - There is no magic solution to homelessness, Montreal's public consultation office heard Monday as it began a series of hearings on how the city can more successfully integrate services for ...

EDMONTON - A two-week-old boy who was bitten by a pet dog at a home west of Edmonton on the weekend has died in hospital, RCMP say. The newborn was airlifted to the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edm...

VANCOUVER - Health authorities in British Columbia say a new case of the measles has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland in a resident who travelled to Southeast Asia. A joint statement from Fraser H...

TORONTO - Flu cases are continuing to rise across the country, public health data show, with Quebec, B.C. and the territories particularly hard hit as vulnerable patients seek help at hospitals. The P...

FREDERICTON - Graydon Miles was driving down Highway 7 in Ontario last year when he saw an upside down Maple Leaf flying from a pickup truck, along with one flag directing an obscenity at Prime Minist...

Editor's Note: Tisdale bypass times were incorrect in the first version of the story. It has since been corrected.-Emergency and outpatient services at Porcupine Carragana and Tisdale Hospitals will b...