Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO side of a joint team with scientists in China, was dismissed last year, the health agency said.

Authorities said there was no threat to the local population or to homes near the Newburyport building, but fire officials told employees who work in the industrial park where the facility lies to stay away. One woman who didn’t get the message said she could taste chemicals on her lips.

When an organization can change the rules in its favour—and undermine the wishes of members in the process—we should all be greatly concerned.

Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says healthcare has deteriorated badly under the United Conservatives, leaving as many as 800,000 Albertans without a family doctor.

More than a year after OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative settlement over the toll of opioids that was accepted nearly universally by the groups suing the company, money is still not rolling out.

Canada is the only country in which private insurance to cover physician services is illegal.

The 2019 law, known as Bill 124, capped wage increases for the nurses and other public sector workers at 1% a year for three years.

NDP health critic Don Davies is accusing the minister of halting the implementation of a new rule intended to lower the cost of drugs at the behest of drug companies that have resisted the change.