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Shoppers announced the shift Tuesday, but did not say what prompted the change or how much money Toronto-based Avicanna is paying for Shoppers to refer patients to its MyMedi.ca platform.

The budget delivers on billions in healthcare cash flowing to provinces and territories.

Sylvia Jones said uninsured patients can still receive healthcare through other programs after the Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program ends this Friday.

The province announced Friday that it had reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increases some payments to them, but reduces some coverage for patients.

Dr. Akbar Nauman Khan, whose licence was revoked last year in a separate case, complained through his lawyer that the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal ‘beats out false confessions.’

Steve Ellis, whose father is sick, told a news conference today that federal experts should continue investigating the cause of the disease, of which symptoms include rapidly progressing dementia, muscle spasms, atrophy and a host of other complications.

The new standard takes effect a year after the province’s Health Professions Act was amended to strengthen existing laws that ban the procedure.

Dr. Britney Grayson had just finished regaling children at the small religious grade school about Kenya, where she works on missions, when she drove out of the parking lot looking for a Starbucks.