Corporate Governance

AdvantAge Ontario said the homes are spending tens of millions of dollars on temporary nurses and that places the province’s target of four hours of care per day per resident by 2025 in jeopardy.

McKesson owns independent pharmacies I.D.A., Guardian, Remedy’sRx, The Medicine Shoppe, Uniprix and Proxim, the Rexall Pharmacy Group and Well.ca.

The Progressive Conservatives promised shortly after the August 2021 election that they would cut the backlog to 12,000 people within 18 months—by February 2023.

The premiers met virtually Monday, nearly a week after Ottawa offered more than $46 billion to provinces and territories to augment the Canada Health Transfer.

The deal amounts to an additional $46 billion from Ottawa over a decade, as long as the provinces meet some conditions.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly said in the opinion that drug companies had failed to prove that a federal rule allowing states to import medicines would create a “concrete risk of harm” for them.

The government is also providing funding for 40 new undergraduate physician-training seats.

The program, which begins in the fall of 2023, will be Canada’s first French-language pharmacy program outside of Quebec.