The federal government announced it would reinstate the role in February in recognition of the central role nurses played in keeping healthcare afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Passed in November 2019, the bill gave the Health Minister, at the time Tyler Shandro, the power to tear up the province's agreement with doctors along with any future agreements.
Health Canada is currently reviewing bivalent booster candidates from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which leaves some Canadians debating whether to wait for the revamped shots or go for a booster now.
Dr. Brian Nadler was initially charged with first-degree murder last year in the death of 89-year-old Albert Poidinger at the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital.
Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, three hospitals in government-controlled areas of the country's war-torn Donetsk region had facilities to care for premature babies.
