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Saskatchewan’s official opposition has moved an emergency motion that would ban the practice of using virtual doctors for patients giving birth or experiencing a life-threatening emergency.

This past election, healthcare came across as an after-thought to more immediate economic concerns that often hijacked campaign headlines.

Ontario is set to study how it can introduce involuntary addictions treatment for people involved in the correctional system, one of a slate of measures the government is planning as part of—or associated with—a large justice bill tabled Thursday.

That brings the total number of people infected in the province to 1,243 since an outbreak began in October.

The announcement of the fundraiser was held primarily over Zoom on Wednesday afternoon, where the group was joined by Dr. Paul Parks, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers and Dr. Joe Vipond, among others.

Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the day.

For some doctors a heavy workload suits them but some grapple with blurred boundaries, burnout and the line between purpose and addiction.

At OntarioMD’s virtual symposium, clinicians praised AI scribes for slashing admin time.