Dr. Brian Day had challenged the province's Medicare Protection Act, which bans extra-billing and private insurance for medically necessary procedures.
Most of it is a $2-billion health transfer top-up the federal government pledged for provincial and territorial governments in March mainly to help relieve surgical backlogs.
It's been eight months since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to meet with the premiers to address their request for stable, long-term healthcare funding, and that meeting is overdue, Horgan told a news conference at the start of the final day of the premiers' Council of the Federation gathering in Victoria.
Family members thought their loved ones were being cremated. In many instances, the ashes they received from Sunset Mesa Funeral Home belonged to someone—or something–else.
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The federation says its proposals focus on retaining nurses, encouraging them to return to the profession and the public healthcare system, and new measures to recruit and train the next generation.
Canadian companies are scrambling to fill 915,000 job vacancies and more than half of workers would rather quit than return to the workplace full time. What can you do about it?
