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[ad_1] St John has fired a longtime paramedic, after sharing information found on the company’s intranet. Your playlist will load after this ad. First Union says the document, which any employee could have accessed on the company’s intranet, showed that St John was not negotiating in good faith. Source: 1 …

[ad_1] Emergency physicians are calling for alcohol to be less accessible and more expensive after their annual snapshot again found that alcohol-related cases put pressure on hospital emergency departments. The newly released snapshot, from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, puts a figure on the number of people in emergency …

[ad_1] After 43 days at sea, a Russian passenger ship arrived in New Zealand ahead of a unique sightseeing cruise to some of the most remote places in the country. Reporter LEE KENNY meets the crew. Aleksandr Pruss has said goodbye to his family many times during his 40 years …

[ad_1] Supplied An artist’s impression of the renovated Inland Revenue building on the corner of Cashel and Madras streets in central Christchurch. Seven years after buying Christchurch’s largest office building to save it from demolition, Crown sold it to a property developer. Huadu International Management Group purchased the former Inland …

[ad_1] A former C1 Espresso manager says she felt guilty about her role in what she believes was the “cult” atmosphere of harassment and surveillance of the Christchurch café. She claims the staff were afraid to voice their complaints due to the “spying on each other” culture created by owner …

[ad_1] CMDHB / Supplied A home fecal immunochemical test (FIT) detects the first signs of bowel cancer. The Ministry of Health’s national bowel screening program apologizes to bowel cancer patients who were mistakenly sent a letter inviting them to participate in bowel screening. They were invited to take part in …

[ad_1] New Zealand November 19, 2020 11:45 pm3 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Actor Wade Williams says he was exposed to Covid-19 while visiting a massage spa in New Zealand while re-filming a movie. Video / CNN There are …

[ad_1] There are three new Covid-19 cases in New Zealand to report on Friday. The Health Ministry said the cases were detected in isolation. The first case arrived from Romania, via Qatar and Brisbane, on November 3. They were already at the Auckland quarantine facility, Jet Park, as a contact …

[ad_1] World November 18, 2020 09:53 pm5 minutes to read South Australians are preparing for the shutdown as authorities work to contain the Covid-19 cluster outbreak. Photo / Getty Already more heartbreaking stories of the Covid-19 pandemic are emerging as South Australia enters a brief and abrupt shutdown. While many …

[ad_1] Tom Lee / Stuff Damien O’Connor said most of the initiatives were led by established recruitment groups with hundreds of farmer members. More than $ 6 million will be spent to help farmers improve the health of rivers, wetlands and habitat biodiversity in Canterbury and Otago, as well as …