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Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie is also promising to add 1,625 residency spots and promote team-based clinics.

The agency, called Santé Québec, will manage all healthcare facilities in the province and will become the sole employer of 330,000 healthcare workers.

Section 11 of B.C.’s Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act allows the province to bring an action against opioid manufacturers and distributors on behalf of multiple governments.

The government plans regulatory changes to allow nurse practitioners to order and apply a defibrillator, order and apply a cardiac pacemaker, and order and perform electrocoagulation, a process to treat skin conditions and lesions.

On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, tapping an opponent of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates to lead the nation’s top medical research agency.

Women, Albertans, young people, bisexuals and non-white Canadians were some of the cohorts found to have higher rates of cost-related nonadherence.

The move comes after David Eby’s newly elected government eliminated the stand-alone Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, which advocates say had no ‘teeth.’