Tag Archives: Health
Plus $200 million for new P.A. hospital
The provincial government has confirmed the tender for advisory services for a new hospital in Prince Albert that will cost more than $200 million. Health Minister Jim Reiter said as much to reporters...
Mar 05, 2020 (file photo/paNOW)
PM creates COVID-19 cabinet committee to deal with novel coronavirus
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has created a new cabinet committee to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak, which began in China but now has spread around the world. The COVID-19 cabinet c...
Mar 04, 2020
Travellers coming through customs at Saskatoon airport getting extra screening
If you have travelled outside of Canada in the past few weeks, you've likely noticed something a bit different at the Saskatoon airport upon your return.CJ Dushinski, the vice-president of business de...
Mar 03, 2020
Sask Royal Purple kicks off annual campaign
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and one provincial service club is ready to step up.Monday at the P.A. Inn, the Saskatchewan Royal Purple, a province wide service club, pledged $25,000 to suppor...
Mar 03, 2020 Saskatchewan Royal Purple members pose with Glenda James and a $100,000 cheque, which represents the total raised by the service club over the last five years. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Kenney says frustrating coronavirus stifling oil and gas economy
EDMONTON - Alberta's premier says it's frustrating to see his government doing everything it can to grow the economy only to watch global oil prices fall due to reduced demand tied to the no...
Mar 02, 2020
Feeling Deflated?
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Mar 01, 2020
Memorial scholarship to honour late P.A. doctor
A local pharmacy is teaming up with the Victoria Hospital Foundation to honour the memory of a longtime Prince Albert doctor.Rizwan and Saima Ali, owners of Pharmasave PA Pharmacy on Second Avenue, ha...
Feb 28, 2020 Dr. Mohammad Zulfiquar Hussain practiced in Prince Albert for over 40 years. (submitted photo/Saskatchewan Health Authority)
University campus in P.A. prepares expanded dental offering
After months of renovations, a key part of the University of Saskatchewan's new downtown campus in Prince Albert will soon be fitted out with dental equipment and a bigger offering for education and p...
Feb 25, 2020 (submitted photo/University of Saskatchewan website)
Drinking water advisory issued in Birch Hills
Birch Hills is under a precautionary drinking water advisory, but the town administrators are hopeful the advisory is lifted by Wednesday.The Water Security Agency (WSA) issued the advisory on Saturda...
Feb 25, 2020 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)
Parkland Ambulance's first all-women paramedic shift in action on Friday
For the first time in Parkland Ambulance's history, both its paramedic crews were staffed entirely by women on Friday. "To me I don't find it should be shocking," Erica Hnidek, one the seven women who...
Feb 24, 2020 Three members of the Parkland Ambulance's first all-women shift on Friday. (Twitter/Parkland Ambulance)
