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It is widely known now that American President Trump has been threatening widespread tariffs on Canadian products and services. But what has yet to be part of the national conversation is the impact tariffs would have on our health system.

The province’s proposed three year capital plan includes $11 million to continue planning and design work for a new Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton as well as $2 million for expansion planning at two other Edmonton hospitals.

The federal government says this program would incentivize nearly 28,000 healthcare and social service professionals over a 10-year period to serve underserved rural and remote communities.

During one of the panel discussions at IHE North America Connectation in Toronto last week, policy leaders from B.C., Alberta and N.B. came together to share success stories and challenges when it came to digital health interoperability.

Bill C-72, the Connected Care for Canadians Act, would have provided a regulatory framework for data exchange and prohibit health information technology vendors from data blocking.

Premier Wab Kinew says Prairie Mountain Health, which covers a large portion of western Manitoba, has been using more-costly private nurses and must focus more on nurses in the public health system.

In small care homes, each resident largely follows their own daily sleep schedule and has flexibility around meals and activities, in contrast with traditional ‘task-oriented’ homes that seek efficiencies through regimented wake and sleep times and mass meals.

The complainant said she felt discriminated and disrespected after being told by a doctor she couldn’t use the women’s washroom at a clinical research facility.