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The survey of 1,000 Canadians found they most commonly use medical cannabis for anxiety disorder, depression, and insomnia.

Way back before the pandemic—during a distant time known as January of this year—the Medical Post did an editorial survey of 258 Canadian doctors on topics we would be covering in our print issues in 2020.

Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, director of the CCLA's equality program doesn't think the province will repeal the law without a struggle.

Now is not the time to panic. Dr. Mark Soth, the man behind the physician finance blog Loonie Doctor, discusses how the pandemic hit doctors’ incomes and what he tells physicians about saving for retirement.

“It’s devastating because what are we to do now? The doctor we lost to move to Ontario, he was born in Alberta, he was raised in Alberta, he went to medical school and residency in Alberta, and now because of Minister Shandro’s incompetence, we’ve basically subsidized a doctor for Ontario.”

The pandemic walloped FFS incomes but it isn’t just restrictions on the number of capitation payment plans that cause many doctors to stay with it.