Tag Archives: Health
SGI launches July spotlight: Slow down in orange zones
The summertime means construction season is well underway and SGI is reminding drivers to help keep workers safe.SGI announced highway construction safety as the focus of July's Traffic Safety Spotlig...
Jul 03, 2019 Construction zone on Highway 1, east of Balgonie in early July 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Elders and officials play role in HIV testing campaign
For Teena Dumais-Clarke, being tested publicly for HIV is about being a role model."It's important for the community, they need to do this for their family and for their own health," the health direct...
Jun 27, 2019 Elder Gordon Keewatin with the PAGC gets his finger pricked by Tosin Adebayo of NITHA as part of national HIV Testing Day. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Local health authority encourages HIV testing
Thursday will mark National HIV Testing Day across Canada.However in Prince Albert one local health authority is kicking things off a day early."We know that if people engage early in testing, they kn...
Jun 26, 2019 Tara Campbell, right, executive director of Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority gets tested by HIV Coordinator Tosin Adebayo Wednesday afternoon (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Gophers raising a stir in Westview neighbourhood
A property in Prince Albert's Westview area has become a "holy ground" of sorts, and people who live in the area are digging for answers.The property owned by Prince Albert Apostolic Church has become...
Jun 26, 2019 A trio of scouts keep an eye out for intruders at 717 MacArthur Drive. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
P.A. doctor donates $20K to hospice project
The group raising money for the Rose Garden Hospice has received a huge financial boost from a well known Prince Albert pediatrician and his family. On Wednesday, Dr. Ayaz Ramji donated $20,000 to the...
Jun 26, 2019 A major cheque presentation was held Wednesday at the site of the future Rose Garden Hospice. From left to right: Malcolm Jenkins, Dr. Ayaz Ramji, Helen Ramji, Marina Mitchell and Ralph Boychuk. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
'I couldn't breathe for like four minutes,' sexual assault victim recalls
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted in an area near Bell's Point Elementary School on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, is speaking out with the hope it will help police find her attacker. The y...
Jun 26, 2019 The area behind Bell's Point Elementary School where a sexual assault allegedly took place. (Derek Cornet/ paNOW Staff)
Care homes concerned for seniors after instructions from ministry
Some seniors could end up paying more or even being kicked out of their personal care homes after guideline changes from the Ministry of Health.In January, the ministry sent out letters to personal ca...
Jun 24, 2019 (Submitted photo/CJME News)
Update: Young boy burnt after standing too close to fire
Parkland Ambulance paramedics responded to an incident Friday, where a 10-year-old boy in the RM of Shellbrook stood too close to a burning fire, resulting the child receiving serious burns to his fac...
Jun 23, 2019 (File photo/paNOW staff)
‘One step forward in reconciliation’: Seven area governments sign landmark cooperative agreement
An example of reconciliation in action.That is how chiefs described the signing of the Sacichawasihc Relationship Agreement.It commits the City of North Battleford, Town of Battleford and five regiona...
Jun 21, 2019 Seven area governments have signed the Sacichawasihc Relationship Agreement. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Saskatchewan sees highest number of confirmed cases of CWD
More cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) than ever before were found in Saskatchewan last year, according to the Ministry of Environment. Of over 2,000 submissions, 349 positive cases were confirme...
Jun 20, 2019 CWD continues to spread in the province. (Submitted photo/Ministry of Environment)
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