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• 2/16/2023

  Quebec tables legislation to allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying

  The main change in the bill tabled on Thursday by the junior health minister for health and seniors, Sonia Belanger, applies to people suffering from a “serious and incurable” illness that could make them incapable of consenting to medical care.
• 2/16/2023

  Alberta health minister promises $158M in budget to recruit front line health staff

  Jason Copping said Thursday that the workforce is stretched and demands will only increase as the population ages.
• 2/15/2023

  Premiers urge Trudeau to agree to regular health funding reviews

  The premiers say in a letter sent today that they are prepared to accept the offer for now but further discussions are needed to establish longer-term predictability and stability in healthcare.
• 2/15/2023

  States' push to define sex decried as erasing trans people

  Republicans have put transgender issues at the center of their agenda, a tactic that many observers see as an effort to keep conservative voters energized and to push voters sympathetic to Democrats on other issues into the GOP camp.
• 2/15/2023

  Pharmacy-led primary care clinics off to a strong start in N.S., pharmacy group says

  Five hundred people were seen by Shoppers Drug Mart stores alone in the first week of the pilot program
• 2/15/2023

  Pharmacy Entrepreneur Adam Silvertown: "I like a good problem."

  I did not consider myself an entrepreneur when I graduated. I was dedicated to my profession and envisioned a career where I might possibly one day be my own boss. I know it’s very cliché to say this, but I could never have predicted what taking the plunge into pharmacy ownership was going to be like for me.
• 2/15/2023

  ‘Drug dealers don’t become doctors.’ Crown says ex medical student motivated by greed

  In her closing address to a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury, Crown prosecutor Kim McOnie said Sandeson had planned to sell the marijuana he stole from the victim to clear a $78,000 debt just as he was starting medical school at Dalhousie University.
• 2/15/2023

  Alberta Opposition NDP promise health teams to improve access to family physicians

  NDP Leader Rachel Notley says if her party forms government after the spring election, its goal would be for a million or more Albertans to be able to see their family doctor within a day or two near where they live.
• 2/15/2023

  Committee studying assisted dying calls for more engagement from government

  Members of the committee held 36 meetings, heard from nearly 150 witnesses and reviewed more than 350 briefs on the medically assisted dying program.
• 2/14/2023

  Case report: And just one more thing . . .

  An add-on question from a patient at Dr. Dickson's clinic reveals a dramatic case of depigmentation.