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The issue of opioid diversion from the prescribed alternatives program, also known as safer supply, has dogged the NDP government of Premier David Eby.

Dr. Paul Parks, an emergency physician, says he’s heard from scores of health workers across Alberta who felt intimidated by the premier’s harsh critique this week of Alberta Health Services.

The group says these layoffs ‘have significant unintended consequences for reducing American consumers’ access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare.’

In wake of the trade dispute between the United States and Canada and concerns over the Trump administration’s healthcare policy, politicians and regulatory colleges are doing more to convince U.S. physicians to move up north.

The medical practice apologized in an emailed statement for what it called ‘an unprecedented error that resulted in an embryo transfer mix-up.’

The former head of AHS, Athana Mentzelopoulos, alleges in a lawsuit that she was wrongfully dismissed for looking into questionable contracts pushed by government officials as high up as the premier's office.

Many of those products were found to contain sildenafil, a prescription drug for erectile dysfunction that Health Canada says should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare professional.

British Columbia’s health minister provided an update on an investigation into ‘bad actors’ among pharmacies that are allegedly contributing to diversion and paying illegal kickbacks to drug users and doctors.