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14 new internationally trained docs now working in rural Sask.
Fourteen new internationally trained doctors are working in rural parts of the province. According to the Ministry of Health, the doctors completed the Saskatchewan International Physician Practice As...
Aug 28, 2024 Doctors working in rural Saskatchewan are also eligible for some major incentives, as the province continues its efforts to get more physicians working in rural and remote areas. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi slams premier's plan to transfer hospitals
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith needs to explain her plan to potentially transfer control of underperforming hospitals to third parties. NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi say...
Aug 27, 2024
City Hospital Foundation raising $3M for state-of-the-art CT scanner
The Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation is working to raise millions of dollars for a new, state-of-the-art CT scanner. The foundation said it wants the hospital to have the very best technology, in or...
Aug 27, 2024 The scanner at City Hospital helped more than 15,000 patients in 2022-23. (Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation/Submitted)
Sharp rise in whooping cough cases reported in several provinces
TORONTO - Whooping cough cases are on the rise in Canada, with some provinces reporting sharp increases compared to pre-pandemic averages. More than 11,670 cases have been reported in Quebec so far th...
Aug 27, 2024
Advocates vow to fight Ford on consumption sites, he says they should be grateful
TORONTO - Advocates for supervised consumption sites vowed Monday to fight Ontario Premier Doug Ford's decision to shutter 10 of those spots, saying the sites save lives and should be expanded instead...
Aug 26, 2024
Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska's November ballot
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban - a development likely to drive more ...
Aug 23, 2024
Wildfire smoke leads to air quality advisory for Saskatoon, Regina
Much of Saskatchewan was placed under an air quality advisory from Environment Canada on Friday, including the province's two largest cities. "Wildfire smoke is causing or expected to cause very poor ...
Aug 23, 2024 Rowers were out on the South Saskatchewan River on Friday morning, despite thick smoke in the air in Saskatoon. (Taylor MacPherson/650 CKOM)
Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban - a development likely to drive more ...
Aug 23, 2024
Nurses recruited from West Africa say Quebec training program has left them destitute
MONTREAL - A Montreal civil rights organization says a Quebec program to recruit and train nurses from overseas is leaving some participants in dire straits and dependent on food banks. Some nurses re...
Aug 23, 2024
B.C. addictions minister allowed to respond to decriminalization court challenge
VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...
Aug 22, 2024
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