Loblaw Companies, Ltd.

Here’s what Loblaw public relations told us.

The new committee will focus on quality improvement, health outcomes, critical incidents and risk management for the company's healthcare-focused operations, including Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaw Pharmacies, and Lifemark.

Health and regulatory lawyer Aly Háji, a former pharmacist and Ontario College of Pharmacists prosecutor, says a registrar's investigation into the pharmacists among Shoppers' top corporate ranks would be a good place to start.

Filed by pharmacist Sivajanan Sivapalan, the lawsuit alleges Shoppers made ‘frivolous and vexatious’ complaints to the Ontario College of Pharmacists about associate-owners after ending their franchise agreements.

A survey by the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals comes just weeks after its Ontario counterpart revealed the findings of a similar probe and announced a zero-tolerance stance on corporate pressures in pharmacy.

Canada’s largest grocer and drugstore chain said Tuesday the chief executive of Denmark’s leading grocery retailer Salling Group A/S, Per Bank, will join the company in early 2024.

In just two-and-a-half years, Vancouver-based Well Health Technologies went from providing OSCAR EMR software to about 200 clinics in B.C. to a user base of almost 11,000 physicians in about 2,200 sites across the country. With its recently launched app developer marketplace, Well Health aims to turn EMRs to platforms that clinicians can customize as easily as their iPhones.

Shoppers, Loblaw pharmacies next national banners to adopt the platform.