Corporate Governance

The decision noted that having focused solely on the critical portions of the nurse’s post, the discipline committee “failed to recognize that her comments were not only both critical and laudatory but were self-evidently intended to contribute to public awareness and public discourse."

The goal here is not to admonish Canada’s most revered medical organizations, but rather to illustrate the historic and longstanding dearth of Black representation in Canadian medical leadership. Over the past few years, calls to address barriers to achieving diversity in the Canadian health workforce have been gaining momentum. Diversity exists along a broad spectrum that includes gender, socioeconomic, linguistic, and racial subsets, to mention a few. Acknowledging that there exist many populations that are also underrepresented in the highest echelons of Canadian medical leadership, this article speaks specifically to the paucity of Black Canadians in formal physician leadership roles while proposing four key recommendations for addressing this diversity gap.

Started in 2015, the network of pharmacies is spread out across the country in every province except Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Dr. Meili noted the funding commitment would be enough to hire 100 doctors, 150 registered nurses, 300 licensed practical nurses and 500 clinical care assistance, as one example of how it could be distributed.

In the province of Ontario, the Personal Health Information Protection Act of 2004 is currently being updated and we must be informed and advocate for better data laws. The Competition Act in Canada is the oldest antitrust law in the western hemisphere, even older than the U.S. Sherman Act of 1890. It does not have modern teeth to allow our government to do to the new class of robber barons what was done a century ago.

Just halfway through a five-year agreement between the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical (pCPA) Alliance and the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA), the deal has produced $2 billion in savings.

Dr. Howard is also a clinical associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.

After all these many years as a loyal member, I have to admit to a certain level of disappointment with my family. It’s not that they haven’t been supportive of me in my several failed attempts at marital coherence -they have always been patient with my stumbles. Nor did they denounce me each time I deserted them for greener pastures, or question my procreative abilities when I limited myself to two offspring. No, my family has always been there for me, and flexible in its expectations.