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Corporate Responsibility

  • Vertical chivalry: Little kids and bigger threats

    When Northern Ontario moved into stage two in June, our spas and salons suddenly got inundated with calls from 416 and 613 area codes. People desperate enough to blow 800 km worth of gas into our atmosphere to get their toenails painted. All of these tiny microaggressions toward the future citizens of the planet; all so encased in the fabric of our hyperconsumeristic culture that we don't see them as part of a far greater health threat than COVID-19.

  • Shelburne Town Pharmacy to host SickKids fundraiser

    Local pharmacist and owner of Shelburne Town Pharmacy, Sanjay Lekhi for the last six years has been raising donations for Sick Kids through a community-based fundraiser.

  • NB pharmacy creates care packages for intravenous drug users

    Ashley Legere, a pharmacy assistant with the Guardian store who helped launch and oversees the initiative, became concerned that some customers were reusing needles after she noticed people buying a bag of 1cc insulin syringes but not returning for two weeks. There was also an outbreak of endocarditis in the community of 5,300.

  • The Medical Post's favourite charities

    A few causes we think are deserving of your support as a Canadian MD.

  • Alberta government to cut up to 11,000 healthcare jobs

    Health Minister Tyler Shandro said nurses and front-line workers will not lose their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Hospital CEO speaks out after nooses again found at hospital construction site

    Sarah Downey, president and CEO at Michael Garron Hospital, has written a letter to EllisDon's CEO after a third incidence of anti-Black racism took place on the EllisDon construction site in a four-month period. The incidents happened on the site where a hospital extension is being built at the Michael Garron Hospital in East York, a suburb of Toronto.

  • Surveillance capitalism in the information age

    In the province of Ontario, the Personal Health Information Protection Act of 2004 is currently being updated and we must be informed and advocate for better data laws. The Competition Act in Canada is the oldest antitrust law in the western hemisphere, even older than the U.S. Sherman Act of 1890. It does not have modern teeth to allow our government to do to the new class of robber barons what was done a century ago.

  • Scotiabank launching physician wellness initiative in partnership with CMA, MD Financial

    The f$15 million in funds will flow to provincial and territorial medical associations, as well as key medical organizations identified as being best attuned to the specific needs of physicians in various fields.
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