Tag Archives: Health
TRU offering free menstrual products starting September
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) announced that all washrooms on its Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses will have free menstrual products by September 2021.TRU said it is the first post-se...
May 11, 2021
Alberta to stop giving first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot as supply dwindles
OTTAWA - Alberta says it won't give out more first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the time being.A spokesman for the provincial health department says the decision was made because there ...
May 11, 2021
'There wasn't a moment where I was scared': Salmon Arm mother grateful for RIH saving son's life
KAMLOOPS - Six hours of surgery, four blood transfusions, and 131 staples to shut the wounds.After all that and a 15-day stay at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH), 14-year-old Seth Blackburn of Salmon Arm c...
Doug Collins May 10, 2021
B.C. records 20 virus-related deaths over the weekend, 1,759 new cases
VICTORIA - It has been another deadly weekend as the COVID-19 pandemic marches on. B.C.'s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry is reporting 1,759 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend, including ...
Dylana Kneeshaw May 10, 2021
Opposition, Ottawa, media looking for COVID disaster: Alberta justice minister
EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says a COVID-19 disaster is what the provincial Opposition, the federal government and the media "were looking for and want" in the province.Kaycee Madu, in Faceb...
May 10, 2021
Canada to get two million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses as provinces expand rollouts
OTTAWA - Canada is scheduled to receive two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week as provinces continue to ramp up their immunization efforts. The two million shots represent...
Dylana Kneeshaw May 10, 2021
Potential COVID-19 exposure at Valleyview Secondary
KAMLOOPS - A potential COVID-19 exposure transpired at Valleyview Secondary School between May 3 to 5.Students and staff who may have been in direct contact with the COVID-positive individual are bein...
Aaron Schulze May 09, 2021
Dozens gather at Whistle Stop Cafe to rally against health orders
MIRROR, Alta. - RCMP ticketed protesters leaving an anti-lockdown rally outside a central Alberta caf Saturday, after the establishment was closed by health officials earlier in the week.Despite pouri...
May 08, 2021
Kamloops residents urged to get the first shot they can as city vaccinations climb over 41,000
KAMLOOPS - There is some progress being made in the Interior's pandemic fight this week. IH Medical Health Officer Dr. Carol Fenton says virus transmission in the region is heading in the right direct...
Doug Collins May 05, 2021
Pfizer vaccine approved for kids 12 to 15 years old
Health Canada says the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can now be given to kids as young as 12.The vaccine was previously authorized for anyone at least 16 years of age or older.A trial of more than 2,200 you...
May 05, 2021
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