Health

Sutter says Rebels ready for life at the rink, literally, this season

Yes, the Red Deer Rebels really are taking "life at the rink" to a whole new level. Pictures showing makeshift digs at the Westerner Park Centrium where players will be living during the upcoming abbr...

Andrew Snook Feb 11, 2021

Grizzlys forward wants extra year of junior hockey eligibility for over-agers

A push is on to allow 20-year-old junior hockey players an extra year of eligibility after missing out on their final year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Leading the charge is Olds Grizzlys forward Mali...

Feb 11, 2021

Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada set to more than quadruple next week

OTTAWA - A month-long slowdown in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the mi...

Feb 11, 2021

Veer says all options being considered after Wood Buffalo takes back local EMS dispatch

Red Deer's mayor says the city will continue looking at its options regarding ambulance dispatch in the community.Following a unanimous vote Tuesday by council for the Regional Municipality of Wood Bu...

Feb 10, 2021

Red Deer had seven opioid-related deaths in November

Newly released figures from the Alberta government show seven people died in Red Deer in November due to opioid poisoning.That brings the number of opioid-related fatalities in Red Deer through the fi...

Feb 10, 2021

Red Deer with 289 active COVID-19 cases

Alberta confirmed 339 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.That's out of 10,873 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about 3.2 per cent.The number of active cases in the province...

Feb 10, 2021

Dr. Hinshaw shares COVID-19 update for Feb. 10

Alberta's chief medical officer of health is set to provide her latest update on the COVID-19 situation in the province.Dr. Deena Hinshaw will speak during a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Yo...

Feb 10, 2021

Sandstone Pharmacies offering asymptomatic COVID-19 testing

Sandstone Pharmacies announced this week that it has partnered with Calgary health innovator CardiAi to provide Albertans with easy, local access to accurate COVID-19 testing at over 20 pharmacy and l...

Feb 10, 2021

Close to $500M available to front-line workers in Alberta

Alberta is pledging close to $500 million in support for front-line workers in the province."The pandemic has of course put a lot of pressure on everyone from families to communities to entire industr...

Feb 10, 2021

Province keeping close watch over variant COVID strains

Alberta's chief medical officer of health says they are closely watching how COVID-19 cases are trending, but there is no specific benchmark on how many variant cases need to be identified for the pro...

Feb 09, 2021