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A new extended-hours primary care clinic has opened in Winnipeg. The clinic, located at Access Winnipeg West at the Grace General Hospital, opened Wednesday. It will operate from 5:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on weekends, the province said in a news release. It will also be open…
Jennifer Brazeau says an apology means little without a plan for meaningful action to drive change. That’s her sentiment ahead of a public apology from Canada’s largest association of medical doctors for past and ongoing harms the medical profession has caused First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. “An apology isn’t a panacea for change, they actually have to…
Emily Sanche was an “intelligent, passionate, driven” young woman who focused her energy on getting help for her partner, who is now accused of killing her, the woman’s cousin told a Saskatoon court on Tuesday. Thomas Hamp is on trial before Justice Grant Currie at Court of King’s Bench. He’s charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 20,…
Police maintained a cordon Sunday around the Kingston encampment where two people were killed and a third critically injured three days earlier, as local advocates called for the encampment’s residents to be allowed to access their belongings. Some residents of the encampment were sleeping on the ground outside the police barricade, community volunteer Michelle Schwarz told…
White Coat Black Art26:30Hot as hell Britnee Miazek didn’t immediately make the connection between her periods stopping and her job as a second-year ironworker apprentice in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. It was only after a three-month stint in 2023 working on top of the coke ovens used in the steel-making process that the 35-year-old began to notice a pattern. “As…
Concerned organizations in Rainy River, Ont. say the town’s medical system is on life support as they struggle to recruit and retain staff. The northwestern Ontario town is facing dire shortages of both doctors and paramedics, said Mayor Deborah Ewald at an Ontario Health Coalition press conference Friday. “There needs to be some significant changes because…
The emergency room in the northern Ontario community of Thessalon, east of Sault Ste. Marie, will be closed for the second time this year on Friday, Sept. 13. it’s due to a shortage of doctors to staff the facility. “This is caused because of a lack of physician coverage for the site,” said Tim Vine, the…
Select pharmacies in Saskatchewan will soon be able to test and treat for strep throat and ear infections. On Wednesday, Health Minister Everett Hindley announced the details of the $700,000 pilot project. “This innovative approach provides patients with improved access to health care services by offering diagnosis and treatment in one visit,” Hindley said. The…
Efforts continue to remedy a critical doctor shortage in Rainy River in northwestern Ontario after the local physician group announced last month it will be pulling its hospital services. Riverside Health Care issued a statement on Monday saying it has “secured physician hospital services, including emergency room coverage, at the Rainy River Health Centre from…
An Edmonton fertility doctor who admitted to participating in a drug kickback scheme for more than two years will pay a $5,000 fine and serve a temporary practice permit suspension, following a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta hearing last week. In a 2021 letter, Dr. Tarek Motan told patients who saw him between August…
