Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Pharmacy assistants can immigrate to Canada through Express Entry
New initiative aims to ease the labour shortage in Canada's healthcare system.
Alberta moves to de privatize community lab tests in face of long waits, bottlenecks
Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said the province has signed a memorandum of understanding with private provider Dynalife to transfer its staff, equipment and property to the province by the end of the year.

Ottawa ‘shouldn’t walk around with a stick’ to enforce health deals: Federal health minister

All provinces except Quebec accepted the $198-billion deal in principle earlier this year and are expected to sign final agreements before the end of 2023.
Worms that secrete a dangerous paralyzing toxin spreading in Montreal

Lisa Osterland, a retired teacher, found some 20 hammerhead flatworms earlier this week while removing slugs that were eating flowers in her garden in Westmount, Que., a municipality on Montreal Island.
ACP requests feedback on revised version of SPPPT
Quebecers no longer seeing doctor assisted deaths as exceptional, says oversight body

Quebec is on track to finish the year with 7% of all deaths recorded as doctor-assisted.
Doctors in England walk off job again as pay dispute with U.K. government shows no progress

The fifth round of strikes by doctors at the early stages of their careers is set to last until 7 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Supreme Court blocks, for now, OxyContin maker bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers

The deal would allow the company to emerge from bankruptcy as a different entity, with its profits used to fight the opioid epidemic. Members of the Sackler family would contribute up to $6 billion.
Wild mushrooms suspected of killing three who ate a family lunch together in Australia

Police have interviewed the woman who they say cooked the meal at her home on July 29 but didn’t become ill herself.
Criminal record checks required for more pharmacy employees in Alberta

The changes are part of new amendments to the province’s Pharmacy and Drug Regulation.

Pharmacy assistants can immigrate to Canada through Express Entry

Alberta moves to de privatize community lab tests in face of long waits, bottlenecks

Ottawa ‘shouldn’t walk around with a stick’ to enforce health deals: Federal health minister

Worms that secrete a dangerous paralyzing toxin spreading in Montreal

ACP requests feedback on revised version of SPPPT

Quebecers no longer seeing doctor assisted deaths as exceptional, says oversight body

Doctors in England walk off job again as pay dispute with U.K. government shows no progress

Supreme Court blocks, for now, OxyContin maker bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers

Wild mushrooms suspected of killing three who ate a family lunch together in Australia

Criminal record checks required for more pharmacy employees in Alberta