Tag Archives: Health
Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging
OTTAWA - Sen. Patrick Brazeau is trying a second time to pass legislation that would add cancer warning labels to alcohol packaging. The Senate is studying Bill S-202, a revival of legislation Brazeau...
Oct 09, 2025
Trump's Tylenol misinformation revives history of 'mom blaming' in autism, docs say
TORONTO - When U.S. President Donald Trump urged pregnant women to avoid Tylenol because of an unproven belief it can cause autism, Julie Green was brought back to the mom-blaming claims she heard mor...
Oct 09, 2025
Couple makes large donation to NICU that helped their grandchildren
A Prince Albert couple has made a large donation to the Equip the Vic campaign, targeted at expanding the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Two of Aaron and Sherry Palidwar's grandchildren were NIC...
Oct 08, 2025
Family donates $50,000 to Ronald McDonald House effort
Another significant donation has been made to the local effort to build a Ronald McDonald House, which is already under construction. The charity announced on social media on October 8 that they had r...
Oct 08, 2025
Bookings begin for fall flu and COVID vaccines
It's time once again to roll up your sleeves.Saskatchewan residents can start booking appointments to receive this year's respiratory illness vaccinations. Both influenza and COVID-19 vaccines will be...
Oct 07, 2025
These autistic Canadians say U.S. rhetoric has been unhelpful, focus should be on early diagnoses
TORONTO - By the time Moira Robertson got an official autism diagnosis at 23 years old, she had missed out on a lot of the government-funded support she desperately needed. Her childhood and adolescen...
Oct 07, 2025
Number of temporary worker applications fell as fine total increased, government says
OTTAWA - Ottawa ordered companies to pay almost $5 million in fines in the last fiscal year for failing to comply with the rules for temporary foreign worker permits, new government data shows. A new ...
Oct 06, 2025
Premature baby boy abandoned on porch of home on Montreal's South Shore
LONGUEUIL - Police say a premature baby boy was abandoned Sunday night outside a home on Montreal's South Shore. Longueuil police say someone left the boy on the porch of the home at around 11 p.m., r...
Oct 06, 2025
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on the human immune system
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senio...
Oct 06, 2025
More bat encounters raise rabies concerns
Health officials say Saskatoon has seen a sharp rise in bat encounters this year, and several of those bats have tested positive for rabies.Dr. Simon Kapaj, medical health officer with the Saskatchewa...
Oct 05, 2025
