Category Archives: Health
Alberta moving forward on two new plans to maintain river water quality
EDMONTON — Alberta is proposing two new plans to monitor water quality on the North Saskatchewan, Battle and Upper Athabasca rivers. Environment Minister Jason Nixon says clear objectives to monitor and maintain water quality are to be established. Sim...
Alberta moving forward on two new plans to maintain river water quality
EDMONTON — Alberta is proposing two new plans to monitor water quality on the North Saskatchewan, Battle and Upper Athabasca rivers. Environment Minister Jason Nixon says clear objectives to monitor and maintain water quality are to be established. Sim...
Biden pushes effort to combat rising tide of violent crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to lay out new steps to stem a rising national tide of violent crime, with a particular focus on gun violence, as administration officials brace for what they fear could be an especially
Iowa court blocks mandatory waiting period for abortion
An Iowa judge blocked a state law that would have imposed a 24-hour waiting period before women could get abortions, likely setting up a legal battle before the state Supreme Court.
Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large shelters
A 13-year-old Honduran girl who spent two months at the government's largest emergency shelter for migrant children said she was put on suicide watch and was eating only popsicles and juice because the food smelled so foul. At another site,
Risk-assessment tool for fully vaccinated people coming soon, Tam promises
OTTAWA — Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she'll soon have advice to help fully vaccinated Canadians figure out what they can safely do, but it won't be a blanket list of dos and don'ts covering everyone, everywhere. Instead,
EU approves 191.5 billion euros in recovery funds for Italy
ROME (AP) — The European Union's executive Commission on Tuesday formally approved 191.5 billion euros ($228.5 billion) in pandemic recovery funds for Italy, the 27-nation bloc's third-biggest economy.
‘From small parties to medium parties’: All of Quebec at green alert level on Monday
MONTREAL — All of Quebec will be at the green pandemic-alert level next week, Premier François Legault said Tuesday, as health officials reported fewer than 100 new daily COVID-19 infections for the second consecutive day. Eight outlying regions are al...
Almost 900 Secret Service employees were infected with COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 900 U.S. Secret Service employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to government records obtained by a government watchdog group.
