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The pilot project saw the province team up with telemedicine provider Maple to provide islanders with access to the eight P.E.I. physicians who've signed on to meet with patients over the phone or video conferencing.

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.”

With the second wave of COVID-19 in full swing, did the return to class for Canadian students help cause it or are cases rising in schools because of the second wave itself?

Dr. Lauralee Dukeshire said her choice is entirely based on the actions of Alberta's government which have created a “hostile, toxic and unstable work environment for physicians.”

New options will allow specialists and family physicians in the province to offer more comprehensive virtual visits, giving them more time to take a full patient history, review test results with patients and discuss treatment options.

I think about certain patients, displaced from the certainties of their lives in their home countries. They have, for complicated reasons, chosen to leave the world they grew up in to make a new life in Canada. The dominant culture here is so foreign, so strange to them. Some are ready to embrace it and go forward, and some are stuck and cannot adjust.

The change came within 24 hours of Canada's Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam updating recommendations to say that masks with three layers—two cloth plus a filter—are ideal over two-layer face coverings.