Tag Archives: Health
Father searching for missing daughter calls on province to declare opiod crisis emergency
Carson Poitras believes there is a connection between the province's drug crisis and missing and murdered Indigenous men and women.Poitras, whose daughter Happy Charles has been missing for nearly 8 y...
Mar 14, 2025
'Meeting people where they’re at': Northern communities developing strategies in wake of public health issue
Communities in northern Saskatchewan are facing what seems to be an endemic public health issue. "The numbers of northern dog bites are so high, that the places with the highest dog bites exceed that ...
Mar 13, 2025
Province opens emergency centre to deal with drug crisis
Hundreds of overdoses in Saskatoon have prompted the government to activate the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC). The Sask. Public Safety Agency, the City, and the Ministry of Health will...
Mar 12, 2025
$750,000 funding boost for emergency mobile crisis in Prince Albert and Melfort
A new agreement between the Mobile Crisis Unit Co-operative and the Province of Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry is planned to help families who need emergency intervention. The service will in...
Mar 12, 2025
Dean of College of Medicine visits P.A. to weigh expansion opportunity
With the continual demand for more doctors and other health care practitioners in Saskatchewan, the head of the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan was in Prince Albert to meet peopl...
Mar 11, 2025
Opposition criticizes government after breast cancer patients cannot afford care
The NDP has released obtained emails which says patients are forgoing mammograms out of province due to the cost. "Saskatchewan women urgently needing diagnostic care like mammograms are being referre...
Mar 11, 2025
Over 100 dogs rescued from cull in La Loche
After the Northern Village of La Loche announced an animal surrender last week, Erin Deems, executive director with Saving Grace Animal Society, jumped into action. "I ended up with 105, like that's a...
Mar 10, 2025
La Loche to hold animal surrender Saturday
The Village of La Loche is preparing for what it calls an "Animal Surrender" on Saturday. They are enacting by-law 2-99 the Running At Large of Dogs to deal with the ample strays roaming the neighbour...
Mar 07, 2025
Construction to start this spring on P.A. Ronald McDonald House
The planned construction of Prince Albert's Ronald McDonald House (RMH) hits close to home for a local couple. Ivan and Shianne Trudel spent months in the Saskatoon RMH beginning in 2017, following th...
Mar 07, 2025
Strychnine reauthorization unlikely despite push to control growing gopher issue, expert says
With Richardson's ground squirrel (gopher) population soaring and wreaking havoc on crops and pastures, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) issued a statement on Wednesday to u...
Feb 27, 2025
