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Health Canada turned down the request last month to allow health workers to access and consume psilocybin.

The Alberta government will immediately provide families $2,000 for each child affected by an E. coli outbreak related to several Calgary daycares, Premier Danielle Smith said Friday.

Other provinces are coming up with loads of ad-ons and extras to make the deal for their doctors sweeter—and Ontario needs to step it up.

Public Safety Minister Kris Austin said the Progressive Conservative government had decided it needed to take sharper measures.

The company sponsoring the research said it plans later this year to seek U.S. approval to market the drug, also known as ecstasy, as a PTSD treatment when combined with talk therapy.

With pharmacists also able to prescribe, patients have more access to birth control—but high demand is also leading to long waits for procedures like IUD insertion.

Ahead of expected viral surges, the province is also planning to allow pharmacists to administer more vaccines and to prescribe flu medication.

The Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and Public Health Ontario say almost 3,000 people died from drug or alcohol toxicity in 2021, compared to nearly 1,600 people in 2018.