Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

This week, almost every Canadian province and territory made updates to its plans to deal with COVID-19 and the latest variant—find your province's latest news here.

Federal ministers, including the prime minister, have said they want to speed up an end to the gay blood ban, and Health Canada is expected to respond to the blood-service recommendation by the spring.

New Zealand is proposing a unique approach to stopping smoking. With legislation, which would come into effect in 2027, anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes in their lifetimes.

Eastern Health president David Diamond says affected systems are being rebuilt from scratch, and about 70% are back up and running.

Laurie Pelletier-Tremblay, who joined forces with disgraced pharmacy owner Jonathan-Yan Perreault to buy a Uniprix pharmacy, told the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec she didn't know she was doing anything illegal.

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The proposed legislation to criminalize intimidation of healthcare workers and patients must be tied to safety policies and procedures at hospitals and clinics, say experts on the topic.

Terms and conditions for social media use should make it clear that threats and intimidation are not acceptable and will have consequences, said Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association.