Labor & Employment

Pharmacists reveal how business pressures are putting public safety at risk in BC survey
One in two respondents who worked at corporate or franchise pharmacies said they felt pressure to meet targets, and 31% said those pressures affected patient safety.
Are you developing the pharmacy talent around you?
Make no mistake, as leaders, it is important to develop the people around us. This is not limited to support staff. It also includes helping to develop our peers and even the people we report to. When we develop people, we increase the overall capacity of the organization, and we instill an increased feeling of ownership with our team members.

‘A few processes to go through’: LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal in Alberta

The group representing Alberta’s doctors have said the government is dragging its feet in implementing the new deal and putting patients’ lives at risk in the process.
Tackling pharmacy tech pay discrepancies

A global look at why those with less technical jobs earn more.
Premier Smith announces plan to reinforce vaccine choice in Alberta Bill of Rights

University of Calgary law professor Lorian Hardcastle said it’s hard to know the impacts without seeing the amending legislation.
‘Disappointed:’ Dr. David Price on call to remove him as FMF keynote

The 4 doctors on the Ont. gov’t’s negotiating team ‘help the ministry understand’ implications of OMA proposals, he says.
Icebergs, nuclear weapons and taking a new pharmacy job

In pharmacy, the iceberg principle will apply at each step of promotion along the various dispensary or head office jobs. This will also apply in the change from managerial to ownership roles. We can only see what we understand and the truth hits home when we finally step inside.
Complexity in Canada’s failing monopoly healthcare: Is it fixable?

Dr. Merrilee Fullerton argues it is time to look to hybrid healthcare systems that provide public health insurance as well as private insurance options.
Controversial law designed to free up hospital beds to be tested in Ontario court

Ontario’s Bill 7 allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or charge them $400 per day if they refuse.
Ont. arbitration: When and how much will docs get paid?

In part 3 of his examination of Ontario’s arbitration award, Dr. Sohail Gandhi goes deep on across the board versus relativity increases.

Pharmacists reveal how business pressures are putting public safety at risk in BC survey

Are you developing the pharmacy talent around you?

‘A few processes to go through’: LaGrange says more work to do on doctor pay deal in Alberta

Tackling pharmacy tech pay discrepancies

Premier Smith announces plan to reinforce vaccine choice in Alberta Bill of Rights

‘Disappointed:’ Dr. David Price on call to remove him as FMF keynote

Icebergs, nuclear weapons and taking a new pharmacy job

Complexity in Canada’s failing monopoly healthcare: Is it fixable?

Controversial law designed to free up hospital beds to be tested in Ontario court

Ont. arbitration: When and how much will docs get paid?