Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

B.C. says gender on ID cards can now be changed without doctor's confirmation
Grace Lore, parliamentary secretary for gender equity, says the change will reduce a barrier that two-spirit, transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse people face when trying to change their identification documents.
High price to pay: Pharmacist banned and hit with fines and college costs totalling $110,000
Owner of a Toronto pharmacy, filed more than $123,000 in fraudulent drug claims and disobeyed suspension and practice mentor requirement orders.

Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry

The Federal Trade Commission and seven states brought the case in 2020 against the man dubbed in the media as "Pharma Bro.''
Alberta premier says he won't follow Quebec plan to levy fee on COVID-19 unvaccinated
'Virtually no benefit': Saskatchewan premier says lockdown policies harm communities
Quebec's tax on the unvaccinated could worsen inequity, advocates say

The plan landed as provinces try to navigate their response to record-setting caseloads, driven by the more transmissible Omicron variant, that doctors warn threaten to overwhelm hospitals.
Trudeau says too early to comment on Quebec's plan to make unvaccinated pay penalty

Trudeau told reporters today in Ottawa he wants to see how the Quebec proposal balances people's rights with the state's goal of protecting them from the disease.
Quebec judge suspends unvaccinated man's visitation rights with child

Justice J. Sebastien Vaillancourt wrote that continued visitation was not in the interest of the 12-year-old child or the child's two younger half-siblings, given the state of the pandemic.
Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay 'significant' financial penalty

Adult Quebecers who won't get vaccinated and don't have a medical exemption will be forced to pay a health "contribution,'' Quebec Premier Francois Legault told reporters on Tuesday.
Tory legislator Jeff Yurek to resign Elgin Middlesex London seat next month

ormer environment minister—and pharmacist—Jeff Yurek says he will resign his seat in the Ontario legislature next month.

B.C. says gender on ID cards can now be changed without doctor's confirmation

High price to pay: Pharmacist banned and hit with fines and college costs totalling $110,000

Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry

Alberta premier says he won't follow Quebec plan to levy fee on COVID-19 unvaccinated

'Virtually no benefit': Saskatchewan premier says lockdown policies harm communities

Quebec's tax on the unvaccinated could worsen inequity, advocates say

Trudeau says too early to comment on Quebec's plan to make unvaccinated pay penalty

Quebec judge suspends unvaccinated man's visitation rights with child

Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay 'significant' financial penalty

Tory legislator Jeff Yurek to resign Elgin Middlesex London seat next month