Author Archives: Katie Nicholls

An interesting first in the medical field for 2022. Doctors at a hospital in Maryland did the first heart transplant from a pig to a human. The patient, a 57 year old man, needed the transplant or he ...

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is reporting high occupancy as of late. In a release, the Hospital states that it's medical and surgical occupancy resides at 99.3 per cent, and the ICU...

Truck drivers will have to be vaccinated by the middle of the month to enter Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is mandating for international transport truck drivers to be vaccinated by Jan.15 whe...

Another triple digit number in new COVID-19 cases in the Thunder Bay District Health Unit. 268 reported Monday with 150 case causes pending and 75 obtained from someone else who had the virus. The act...

It was labelled as a big no-no at the beginning of the pandemic. The idea of re-using a mask to some is ok, while others abhor the idea -- despite everyone being affected by covid-fatigue. The highly ...

Yes it's cold, yes it's going to be for a couple of days and nights. With the temps feeling like -40 on most evenings and early mornings, the risk of frost bite continues to climb. There's also frost ...

Now that that the smoke has cleared and some time has passed since the historic Finnish Labour Temple's fire, it looks like there could be a cause. The Ontario Fire Marshal's Office (OFM) likely won't...

Vaccine clinics are coming for school staff sooner. The Ministry of Health noted that the clinics would be coming sooner than originally planned. On Tuesday Jan.11 and Thursday Jan.13, staff at Lakehe...

The City's Municipal Emergency Control Group (MECG) held another meeting this week. The group meets bi-weekly to ensure that major city groups and essential employers and services are maintaining a co...

A covid outbreak is in the Thunder Bay Regional Heath Sciences Centre. Currently the outbreak is contained to Unit 3A. In an communication to Acadia Broadcasting it was stated that the hospitals Infec...