The latest federal budget includes provisions for the first programs to cover contraceptives and diabetes medication and supplies, part of the government’s new pharmacare plan.
The class action includes all Quebecers diagnosed with opioid use disorder after being prescribed opioid medications made by the pharmaceutical companies between 1996 and the present.
A law enacted in 2022, known as Bill 7, requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but need long-term care and are refusing to go to a home selected for them.
With less a month before seniors registered in the federal program are set to begin accessing service, the minister defended his government’s back-and-forth discussions with dentists.
Last June, the province rejected calls from an inquest into the deaths of three women at the hands of their former partner to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.
