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The AMA said if Albertans choose to separate, not only would the medical workforce shrink, but health care in an independent Alberta would be left in limbo.

Medical records showed her seizures were often followed by symptoms such as ‘confusion, irritability, physically and verbally abusive behaviour and episodic amnesia,’ the inquest heard.

The college will make it mandatory for physicians to prescribe safer supply medications only in conjunction with opioid agonist therapy.

Remarks made by a member of Parliament, who is also a doctor, suggesting illicit drugs such as fentanyl are a ‘painless’ and ‘readily available’ option to end one’s life are now the subject of a complaint filed to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

CPhA says Bill C-224 could limit Health Canada’s ability to act on serious safety risks.

The organization concluded that the medical education, postgraduate training, speciality certification and regulatory systems in these countries were ‘sufficiently comparable to Canadian systems.’

NDP Leader David Eby is proposing to suspend the gasoline taxes, while bringing in a new tax bracket for people making more than $1 million and increasing taxes on the two highest existing income brackets starting at about $190,000.

An Ontario patient challenged a pharmacy’s wait time, but regulators found there was good reason his three prescriptions took 27 minutes to fill.

In September, over 1,500 Quebec physicians signed an open letter calling for an inquest into the deaths of doctors who died by suicide.

A new survey looks at several possibilities to see what the average patient thinks. Doc, what do you think of these ideas?