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DOCTOR RECOMMENDED: What you’re watching, reading and listening to

From Netflix indulgences to summer page-turners and addictive podcasts, our doctor readers offer up some ‘peer reviews’
Drugstore sales give major boost to Loblaw quarterly profits

Canada's largest grocery and pharmacy chain says its net income available to common shareholders was $387 million.
As Ontario ERs buckle, nurse groups want international applicants' licenses expedited

A 2020 report found that 14,633 internationally educated nurses were actively pursuing a license through the Ontario College of Nurses.
Doctors say lack of communication on epidural shortage 'frustrating'
Montreal says vaccine—not limiting sexual partners—best way to fight monkeypox

City public health director Dr. Mylene Drouin says vaccination against the disease remains the best strategy to reduce transmission in the city's LGBTQ community.
The (pharmacy) funny pages: Accidents waiting to happen

You weekly dose of giggles!
Reader photo: Honolulu sunset

Sherbet pinks and muted blues feature in this gorgeous photo taken from a Hawaiian vacation.
Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba helps Indigenous, rural communities receive crucial mental health support

In a recent media release, CHFM said that when the COVID-19 virus first arrived in Manitoba in the spring of 2020, the uncertainty and lockdowns that followed led to more youth in Manitoba seeking mental health services.