Health minister committed to fixing dental-care double standard for hygienists
May 8, 2024
The federal health minister says he isn’t convinced by the rationale used to deny independent hygienists equal reimbursement for the same services dentists’ offices offer under a new national plan.Reimbursement rates vary from province to province, but the dental program pays significantly less for a cleaning that happens at a private hygiene clinic, as opposed to in a dentist’s office.Health Minister Mark Holland says the disparity was copied over from a federal benefit program for First Nations and Inuit.
Unpublished Newswire
A mall in central Alberta was locked down while police say they responded to reports that two people were displaying a handgun.RCMP say in a news release they arrived Bower Place shopping center on Saturday evening after receiving two separate complaints about weapons, and with the help of mall security, they locked down the centre and secured the public in various stores.Officers arrested two youths without incident.
May 19, 2024 - 20:50 | | The Globe and Mail
The speed at which this year’s fire near Fort McMurray chewed through the path of the 2016 inferno as it approached the city surprised those fighting the blaze, according to a senior official managing the emergency.Gavin Hojka, an Alberta Wildfire incident commander assigned to this year’s Fort McMurray crisis, said the fire was more raucous than anticipated, given that it is burning in the same area its predecessor mowed through eight years prior. The extended drought made up for the lack of fuel available to the fire, known as MWF-017.
May 19, 2024 - 20:30 | Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
The driver of a vehicle upside down in a field Sunday evening had to be extricated by Ottawa firefighters. Read More
May 19, 2024 - 20:07 | Doug Menary | Ottawa Citizen
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