Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward legislation that would forbid Ottawa from ‘ever’ granting provinces exemptions to allow illicit drug use in hospitals.

The class action was launched against LifeLabs after a 2019 data breach allowed hackers to access the personal information of up to 15 million customers.

WHO’s countries asked the U.N. health agency to oversee talks for a pandemic agreement in 2021.

These are numbers, the Canadian Press says, the Ontario government tried to keep secret.

Pharmacare models seem to entail piecemeal expansion of drug coverage following separate negotiations with each province. I believe this approach risks incorporating several negative aspects of the complex and unequal U.S. health insurance system.

The announcement comes as the provincial coroner marked the death of 192 people killed by illicit drugs in March.

Why not start thinking about what kinds of data are too risky to allow private companies to collect and analyze? Why not use considerations of human dignity or autonomy when deciding if certain kinds of data should even exist?

The legislation is a central condition of the NDP’s political pact with the governing Liberals, and includes a program to cover select contraceptive and diabetes medications and supplies.