Corporate Governance

EnsembleIQ promotes Joe Territo to executive vice-president of content and communications
New role includes responsibility for communications strategy, including public relations and marketing, to further increase growing retail, healthcare and hospitality marketplace engagement, and to fuel business growth for EnsembleIQ customers. (EnsembleIQ is the master company for the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice Plus Business magazines.)
4 key strategies to get staff to buy in and stay in at your pharmacy
They're worth their weight in gold: those loyal, experienced employees who add so much to your pharmacy's success. They're often the ones who answer customers' questions, find products on the shelf, and help make your pharmacy more than just another drugstore.

How do you recession-proof your pharmacy business? Part 1

To increase or at least maintain profits in a difficult economic environment, business owners must improve positive inputs and reduce the negatives. To manage this dilemma in the best way possible, you can take several measures to optimize the outcome while the business climate goes through a so-called recession.
Alberta introduces legislation to limit COVID-19 rule making by municipalities

Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver said Tuesday that municipalities will now need provincial approval to pass such strictures on private businesses.
Report urges researchers to study cannabis and mental health in Black communities

The rehabilitation of cannabis in Canada has largely left the Black communities most affected by its criminalization on the outside looking in, with a dearth of information to counteract established narratives and a lack of research into cannabis use and mental health.
More than half of U.K. pharmacists looking for a career change: survey

More than half of pharmacists surveyed by the Pharmacists’ Defence Association report they want to change rolls within the next 18 months.
Ontario reverses course on plans to deregulate traditional Chinese medicine

Premier Doug Ford last week defended the change by saying people who only speak Cantonese or Mandarin were prevented from writing licensing exams.
Ontario offering nurses up to $5,000 as job retention incentive

The government says it will spend $763 million on the incentive.
Opposition to forced transfers of B.C. patients seeking medically assisted deaths

Dying With Dignity Canada says forced transfers happen when a patient makes an end-of-life choice but is being treated in a facility that forbids medical assistance in dying.
Equitable medical education can be achieved with efforts toward real change

Researchers highlight that a diverse physician workforce can help decrease health inequities, and that establishing such a workforce requires establishing a just and equitable system of medical training.

EnsembleIQ promotes Joe Territo to executive vice-president of content and communications

4 key strategies to get staff to buy in and stay in at your pharmacy

How do you recession-proof your pharmacy business? Part 1

Alberta introduces legislation to limit COVID-19 rule making by municipalities

Report urges researchers to study cannabis and mental health in Black communities

More than half of U.K. pharmacists looking for a career change: survey

Ontario reverses course on plans to deregulate traditional Chinese medicine

Ontario offering nurses up to $5,000 as job retention incentive

Opposition to forced transfers of B.C. patients seeking medically assisted deaths

Equitable medical education can be achieved with efforts toward real change