Finance & Capital Management

Triple whammy
My kids and I have a father and ex who refuses to willingly pay child support. We deal with a justice system that delivers an imperfect version of justice very, very slowly. And we have an enforcement agency that’s been made impotent by funding cuts. That's the triple whammy single parents face, floundering in the Canadian family legal quagmire. If this is hard for me, a professional in the upper echelons of society, imagine the mental strain our Canadian ‘system’ of upholding families and children puts on the single parent working as a PSW or at Tim Hortons.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty in criminal case

Updated relief measures to support physicians and their practices

As the pandemic continues to financially challenge businesses countrywide, the Government of Canada has recently announced extensions to existing programs as well as several additional support measures to help those who may be struggling. For a number of physicians across the country, these updates are particularly relevant.
Ontario adds 13 new health teams
Pandemic sick benefits for physicians and other health professionals
Specialists' group raises concerns over OMA project on practice overhead

In late October, the Ontario Specialists Association started a petition and letter writing campaign about the project, stating the OMA “has asked Canada Revenue Agency for personal physician and professional corporation tax data.”
Canadian physicians contribute close to $40 billion to the economy: report

As of December 2019, 46,934 physicians’ offices were operating in Canada, bolstering job numbers in the fields of telecommunications, utilities, legal services and the postal service, couriers and messengers.
Deferring CPP and OAS not a cut-and-dried case for doctors

If you have recently retired and are in your mid-60s, you have a choice to make. Do you take your government pension entitlements, or defer them to a later date in order to receive a higher amount?
FMF to be 'pharma free by the end of 2024': CFPC

A recently released report from the College of Family Physicians of Canada says the CFPC board, at its January meeting, ruled that the organization's Family Medicine Forum conference is to be "pharma free by the end of 2024." As well, the September report—"Management of Relationships with the Health Care/ Pharmaceutical Industry"—also said the board decided "that cannabis, homeopathic, and naturopathic exhibitors (will) be eliminated from the FMF exhibit hall by FMF 2021."
Highlights from the Ontario budget unveiled Thursday

The province says it is spending $2.5 billion more in the hospital sector this year to help fight the pandemic.

Triple whammy

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty in criminal case

Updated relief measures to support physicians and their practices

Ontario adds 13 new health teams

Pandemic sick benefits for physicians and other health professionals

Specialists' group raises concerns over OMA project on practice overhead

Canadian physicians contribute close to $40 billion to the economy: report

Deferring CPP and OAS not a cut-and-dried case for doctors

FMF to be 'pharma free by the end of 2024': CFPC

Highlights from the Ontario budget unveiled Thursday