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  • Alberta escalates pay fight with doctors, asks regulatory college to intervene

    Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro is escalating his pay dispute with doctors, asking the College of Physician and Surgeons to make rules to stop doctors from withdrawing services en masse. Shandro, in a letter dated June 18, says patients—particularly those in rural areas—have a right to timely access to care and that the college has to do more to make sure that happens.

  • Anti-racism rallies led to few COVID-19 infections in Alberta, total cases growing

    Eight COVID-19 cases have been identified among the several thousands of people who attended rallies in Calgary and Edmonton. Similar events were held around the world after the death of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck a Minneapolis police officer compressed with his knee for nearly nine minutes.

  • Pharmacist takes matters into his own hands to fill PPE needs

    When a Mississauga, Ontario-based pharmacist grew frustrated with the lack of hand sanitizers available to pharmacies during the early days of the pandemic, he decided to take matters into his own hands and create some himself.

  • COVID-19: Increase in the number of travelers to the country

    Although the Canadian border has been closed since March 21 to limit the spread of COVID-19, the number of international travelers counted at Canadian airports has increased considerably in recent weeks. Between June 29 and July 12, 91,300 travelers entered Canada, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. About 40,000 of the 91,000 passengers were neither Canadian citizens nor permanent residents of the country.

  • PPE and beyond: Ideas in pictures

  • COVID-19 can pose cost and delay challenges to N.S. hospital project: auditor

    Nova Scotia's auditor general says the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to raise costs for a health care expansion project that represents the largest capital output in the province's history. Michael Pickup released his second report on the expansion of the Halifax Infirmary and the construction of a community outpatient centre, which has an estimated $2-billion price tag.

  • Anti-maskers print off 'exemption cards' in Toronto to annoyance of healthcare workers

    A week after anti-mask groups rode public transit without face coverings to protest new city bylaws requiring them, the CBC those same groups are making "exemption cards" that claim they are medically exempt from wearing face coverings. The Canadian Red Cross told CBC Toronto said the cards contain a version of the organization's emblem that is being used without permission.

  • Ontario 'prepared' for second COVID-19 wave, Ford says as hospitals sound alarm

    Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday his government has a plan to deal a second wave of COVID-19 this fall, a pledge that comes as Ontario's hospitals warn the surge may come as flu season strikes. Ford said he has been consulting with provincial health officials about the plan, but offered no details about how or when it will be announced.

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