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In late October, the Ontario Specialists Association started a petition and letter writing campaign about the project, stating the OMA “has asked Canada Revenue Agency for personal physician and professional corporation tax data.”

If you have recently retired and are in your mid-60s, you have a choice to make. Do you take your government pension entitlements, or defer them to a later date in order to receive a higher amount?

A recently released report from the College of Family Physicians of Canada says the CFPC board, at its January meeting, ruled that the organization's Family Medicine Forum conference is to be "pharma free by the end of 2024." As well, the September report—"Management of Relationships with the Health Care/ Pharmaceutical Industry"—also said the board decided "that cannabis, homeopathic, and naturopathic exhibitors (will) be eliminated from the FMF exhibit hall by FMF 2021."

The province says it is spending $2.5 billion more in the hospital sector this year to help fight the pandemic.

Sometimes it can feel like an uphill battle to carve out a niche. Make sure your niche complements your pharmacy’s strengths and is sustainable. Your pharmacy is your passion. It’s important that what your practice does and stands for forms a key part of the community and is a reflection of you.

Dr. Furey, who is 45 years old, asserted he plans to have a "life after politics," and that he doesn't want his stint as premier to jeopardize his future career as a physician.

The purpose of the data gathering is to strengthen the associations bargaining position in relativity discussions with the provincial government, the OMA said.

At the PHAC, the replacement of the most senior content expert, the chief public health officer, as leader with a bureaucrat with no knowledge of public health led to a dumbing down of the scientific information with important messages being lost, or not recognized or put on to a lower priority for fiscal or political reasons.