Consumer Affairs & Relations

Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court.

University of Calgary law professor Lorian Hardcastle said it’s hard to know the impacts without seeing the amending legislation.

Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States—Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx—have engaged in anticompetitive practices that spur price increases, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.

Ontario’s Bill 7 allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or charge them $400 per day if they refuse.

After years of lamenting (okay, let’s be honest­—complaining about) any changes our local government makes that I don’t like, I recently went to my first community planning meeting.

Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin.

The Ontario College of Pharmacists discussed a motion to remove James Morrison, its board chair, in a board meeting yesterday.