Tag Archives: Health
La Ronge residency training program successful in recruitment, retainment of local doctors
Six medical resident students have arrived in La Ronge to gain valuable experience on their path to becoming doctors. The La Ronge Rural and Remote Residency Training Program is led by site director D...
Jul 11, 2023
Cumberland House Cree Nation Expands Food and Medicine Forest
A food and medicine forest in Northeast Saskatchewan is seeding very good results.Cumberland House Cree Nation and Cumberland Wood Products have confirmed expansion of their Food and Medicine Forest P...
Jul 08, 2023
Community, Indigenous drug rehab programs across West get $20M in federal funds
Dozens of community and Indigenous groups across Western Canada will share $20 million in federal funding to boost the mental health and drug awareness, treatment and rehabilitation services they offe...
Jul 07, 2023
Sask. business owner among those opposed to potential changes for natural health products
Those in the natural health food industry are gravely concerned over proposed changes they said could shutter many businesses.As part of Bill C-47 which looks to amend legislation laid out in the 2023...
Jul 04, 2023
Sask teen in need of bone marrow donor
The hockey community in Humboldt is once again banding together to help a fellow hockey player in need.Archer Franklin, a member of the 2022-23 U18 AA Humboldt Broncos has been diagnosed with aplastic...
Jul 03, 2023
Humans Inhale Credit Card-Sized Amounts Of Microplastics Every Week
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humans are potentially inhaling a credit card-sized amount of harmful microplastics on a weekly basis, and new research published in the journal Physics of...
Jun 30, 2023
Over $60K raised for new equipment at P.A.'s Victoria Hospital
The Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert is getting over $60,000 to help purchase new medical equipment.The funds were raised during the Victoria Hospital Foundation's (VHF) Charity Golf Classic last we...
Jun 28, 2023
Hope Air expedition makes stops in La Ronge, Prince Albert
Representatives with Hope Air were in La Ronge and Prince Albert on Tuesday as part of the sixth annual Give Hope Wings expedition.Hope Air is a national charity providing travel support through fligh...
Jun 20, 2023
'Make a casserole': River Valley Resilience Retreat offers advice for PTSD awareness month
For Michelle McKeaveney, co-founder of the River Valley Resilience Retreat, the way people need to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in others is simple: try to react to it the way you would...
Jun 16, 2023
Homeless situation is consuming, City councillor says
How to cope with a homeless population that sometimes refuses housing in favour of sleeping rough on city streets remains an unanswered question, but it is being asked, nonetheless. City of Prince Alb...
Jun 16, 2023
