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The B.C. mayor who launched a city-run primary care clinic says people come up and hug him in the grocery store
Colwood’s city-run clinic is ahead of schedule on recruiting doctors—but the patient attachment process has proven slower than hoped for Mayor Doug Kobayashi.
Ontario hospital nurses awarded 5.25% in raises, but decry lack of staffing ratios
Ontario Nurses’ Association provincial president Erin Ariss says the arbitrator’s failure to include staffing ratios sends a message to nurses that they do not deserve the same safety in numbers as other front-line workers in dangerous professions.

Quebec replaces Luc Boileau as head of public health with Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh

Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh served on the federal National Advisory Committee on Immunization before and during the pandemic, overseeing vaccine guidelines in Canada.
They had to navigate the healthcare system growing up. Now they're students at Canada's newest med school

Toronto Metropolitan University opened Canada's newest medical school this week, with 94 students who administrators believe reflect the diversity needed among this country's future doctors.
Yes, weighted vests can help amp up your workout. Here’s what to know

‘People start to realize how good it feels to work just a little bit harder and a little bit smarter.’
Globe and Mail reports Manulife is ‘steering’ patients on Wegovy and Mounjaro to fill prescriptions at Shoppers Drug Mart

Just a year after being called out for a preferred provider arrangement, a new Globe and Mail article says similar behaviour has cropped up by the insurance provider.
As Trump targets DEI in education, Canadian med school accreditors celebrate ‘decoupling’ from U.S. standards

As of July 1, Canada for the first time has its own accreditation system for medical schools that is not tied to the U.S. LCME.
A new circle of support for women in pharmacy

Online platform creates safe space for women executives to discuss challenges in the profession.
Ontario privacy watchdog fines Windsor pediatrician and clinic for misuse of patient data

Dr. Omar Afandi and WE Kidz Pediatrics accessed newborn records from a shared hospital EHR to solicit circumcision services, prompting Canada’s first administrative monetary penalties under PHIPA.
With U.S. CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work

The moves come in response to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s extensive—and some say illegal—restructuring and downsizing of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The B.C. mayor who launched a city-run primary care clinic says people come up and hug him in the grocery store

Ontario hospital nurses awarded 5.25% in raises, but decry lack of staffing ratios

Quebec replaces Luc Boileau as head of public health with Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh

They had to navigate the healthcare system growing up. Now they're students at Canada's newest med school

Yes, weighted vests can help amp up your workout. Here’s what to know

Globe and Mail reports Manulife is ‘steering’ patients on Wegovy and Mounjaro to fill prescriptions at Shoppers Drug Mart

As Trump targets DEI in education, Canadian med school accreditors celebrate ‘decoupling’ from U.S. standards

A new circle of support for women in pharmacy

Ontario privacy watchdog fines Windsor pediatrician and clinic for misuse of patient data

With U.S. CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work

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