Tag Archives: Health
Hockey Canada cancels all sanctioned games,activities
After a day of cancellations and postponements in higher leagues of the game, Hockey Canada announced late Thursday that it too would follow suite because of the risks associated with COVID-19. All sa...
Mar 12, 2020 (Website/Hockey Canada)
Prince Albert working on COVID-19 plan
Top city of Prince Albert staff spent Wednesday and Thursday in meetings working on a plan in response to the threat of COVID-19.The city is in the process of tweaking its existing municipal emergency...
Mar 12, 2020 City Manager Jim Toye during a city council meeting. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Canada develops COVID-19 guidelines on when to cancel major events
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has posted guidelines aimed at helping event planners figure out whether to cancel mass gatherings of people as the federal government works to quell the po...
Mar 12, 2020
Hoback suspends face-to-face service on Coronavirus concerns
Prince Albert MP Randy Hoback is temporarily closing his Prince Albert and Nipawin offices to face-to-face service in response to the novel Coronavirus. Matters will be handled by phone, email and vid...
Mar 12, 2020 P.A. MP Randy Hoback is self-monitoring his own health situation. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Trudeau goes into self-isolation over COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are in self-isolation over COVID-19 concerns, which has forced the cancellation of an in-person meeting of Canada's first ministers. The Prime ...
Mar 12, 2020
Saskatchewan has first presumptive case of coronavirus
Saskatchewan is confirming the first presumptive case of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Saskatoon.The person was tested on Monday in Saskatchewan and has been well enough to self-isolate in their home. A...
Mar 12, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Juno Awards set for Saskatoon have been cancelled
The Juno Awards, which were to be held in Saskatoon on Sunday, have been cancelled due to concerns surrounding coronavirus.The news was delivered Thursday via Twitter."We are devastated to cancel this...
Mar 12, 2020 (Juno Awards)
Premier ends speculation, says no spring election
There won't be a spring election.Putting a stop to the speculation, Premier Scott Moe has announced he will not be calling an election."We will remain focused on providing a strong, stable government ...
Mar 12, 2020 (Lisa Schick/CJME)
Prince Albert will offer swimming lessons in French
The City of Prince Albert has announced the dates for the summer aquatic season.Registration for swimming lessons will begin in April 20, and this year for the first time classes will be offered in Fr...
Mar 11, 2020 The Kinsmen Water park is scheduled to open June 5. (submitted photo/City of Prince Albert)
WHO declares COVID-19 crisis is now a pandemic
ROME - Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hea...
Mar 11, 2020
