Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Neurologist, Dr. Luanne Metz has established a political action committee, called Eyes Forward, to warn against the potential harms of allowing privatization in the system.

Imperial Tobacco Canada is cashing in on the country’s vaping craze and has opened the first of what will likely be many VUSE retail stores.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta is asserting the move is to ensure patients don't suffer from physicians' sudden departure and is continuing to gather feedback from doctors on the policy.

The college said information within health banks in clinical fields should not be allowed to be communicated to third parties for research or statistical purposes without the patient's consent.

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 bill scraps reasonably foreseeable death as a requirement for an assisted death but retains the concept to set out easier eligibility rules for those who are near death and more stringent rules for those who aren't.

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.