Lethbridge City Council voted unanimously to allocate $15,000 to a family physician and recruitment campaign. Council also directed the City Manager to explore opportunities to partner with The Chinook Primary Care Network and Alberta Health Services (AHS) to support funding for an Academic Teaching clinic in Lethbridge. “It’s just another thing, another tool in the […]Read More
A Calgary man who spent months being on dialysis and ended up receiving a kidney transplant from someone very special in his life says people need to take ownership of their health. BCN’s Angela Stewart has more from the man who says he got a new lease on life.Read More
Dr. Ari Joffe teaches pediatrics at the University of Alberta. He has recently published a study on the effects of the pandemic lockdowns. Dr. Joffe says these restrictions Canadians have had to endure are causing much more harm than good.Read More
Alberta Health is reporting that cancer diagnoses dropped by one third during the pandemic, but it's not because cancer is going away.Read More
By now many of us know someone who has gotten COVID-19 and perhaps recovered. The U.S. continues to have the highest death toll due to coronavirus in the world, at more than 400 thousand.Read More
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada proclaims February as Heart Month, and want to remind us that nine out of 10 Canadians have at least one risk factor for heart disease or stroke.Read More
The president of the union which represents Cargill Meat in High River and JBS Canada in Brooks says the province isn’t doing enough to protect essential workers.Read More
Tuesday afternoon Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced further restrictions due to COVID-19 (to be in place for four weeks).Read More
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the widespread cancellation of more non-urgent surgeries may be necessary because the largest hospitals in the province are filling up with COVID-19 cases. Kenney says hospitals are at 91 percent capacity due to the coronavirus. He says Alberta currently has 8,500 hospital beds. Around 2,400 are being set aside for pandemic patients and one quarter of those beds will be in intensive care.Read More
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