The city’s submission, an update to its initial January 2022 request, indicates Toronto wants the federal agency to go further than the exemption it recently granted to British Columbia under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
Cross-border abortion travel is not new. Assisted by formal and ad hoc cross-border referral networks, American women who could manage the costs travelled abroad to countries like Mexico, Canada and Great Britain for abortions before 1973.
Dr. Jabir Jassam argues governments need to increase the wages and benefits of existing doctors and support nurse practitioners and physician assistants in primary care offices.
It is the latest blow to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, which has failed at times to live up to its plan to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
For years, international medical graduates have hoped for a less circuitous route to becoming a physician in Canada, and provincial medical regulators are finally making wishes come true.
