At issue is legislation — passed but not yet in force — that would change the bargaining association for the province’s licensed practical nurses, who last year joined the B.C. Nurses’ Union.
The Alberta Pharmacists’ Association and grassroots Alberta pharmacists are questioning why the Alberta government has invested in a province-wide radio and print ad campaign to tell Albertans that “Lower prescription costs are good medicine for you, your family and for Alberta.”
Frustrated and worried health care workers at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) say only a radical reform of the way the teaching hospital is managed will salvage its reputation as an academic teaching hospital.