An Ontario Superior Court’s ruling that the provincial government's $50-billion lawsuit against tobacco firms can proceed “is great news and a significant defeat for the tobacco industry," says Rob Cunningham, lawyer and senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society.
EDMONTON _ The head of the board that runs Alberta's healthcare system is stepping down. Ken Hughes has resigned as chair of Alberta Health Services effective immediately.
Using an e-health record to check up on your spouse's ex: probably not what health officials in Alberta had in mind when they took patients' records into the virtual world. But an investigation by Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work revealed that an Edmonton ER physician did just that.
Dr. Graham Sher, chief executive officer of Canadian Blood Services, has said enough with the fear-mongering about the planned move of a regional blood-processing facility from New Brunswick to Halifax.
