Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

P.E.I.’s pharmacare plan has expanded again, with the province adding 61 medications to its formularies since December—including treatments for cancer, heart disease, migraine, multiple sclerosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Will pharmacare be the straw that breaks the confidence-and-supply agreement's back?

New legislation set to roll out next month will allow healthcare workers registered in other Canadian jurisdictions to start working as soon as they arrive in Ontario.

A report found that just 45.4% of nursing students passed the Sept. 26 licensing exam, compared to a pass rate of between 63 and 96% in previous sittings.

The advice updates Canada's guidelines set in 2011, when two drinks a day were considered low risk and it was believed that women could safely consume up to 10 drinks a week and men could have 15.

Among the 35 testimonies from First Nations and Inuit women included in the study, there were 22 cases of forced sterilization occurring between 1980 and 2019.

Last week, in a scrum with reporters, Smith repeated that she was talking to prosecutors but didn't mention she had asked them to consider factors unique to the COVID-19 cases.

The United Conservative Party premier has been a staunch advocate of protesters against COVID-19 health restrictions.