American-owned Quest Diagnostics purchased LifeLabs in August 2024 from OMERS, a jointly owned pension fund company, for CDN $1.35 billion. LifeLabs’ B.C. workers, who have been without a contract since last April, have been on strike since Feb. 16.
Dealing with a bully—especially one as duplicitous and manipulative as U.S. President Donald Trump—requires a strong foundation of mental resilience, strategic thinking and collective action.
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.
A former Alberta cabinet minister says an investigation called by Premier Danielle Smith’s government into multimillion-dollar health contracts looks like a whitewashing exercise.
Medical researchers and lawyers say our rocky relationship with the U.S. creates an urgent need to protect a critical Canadian resource: patient health information that can be used to train artificial intelligence.
