Sandra Azocar, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, or AUPE, says it gave strike notice Wednesday morning to Alberta Health Services, after bargaining fell apart over wages.
The office of Health Minister Marjorie Michel would only say the government knows the cost of such treatments presents a challenge for many Canadians and it would have more to say ‘in due course’—the same response it has provided since the election.
The government’s plan drew praise from the Montreal Economic Institute think tank, which pointed to Denmark where the same public and private model is allowed.
The Canadian Medical Association is calling the move ‘unprecedented’ interference in the doctor-patient relationship that risks expanded political interference in other areas, such as vaccination and reproductive health.
A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
Quebec doctors, how are you doing? I understand if you refuse to speak out because you'll be targeted afterward. However, I hear that so many of you applied for a New Brunswick medical license that the website crashed.
The Kamloops-area pharmacist displayed a ‘lack of honesty related to obstructing the failing to report criminal charges on multiple registration renewals, and breaching the terms of a signed Consent Agreement.’
