Health Policy News

The AMA wanted a larger increase. Here’s the raise Alberta docs just got instead as part of Year 4 allocation
The new funding represents the 3%-increase that was awarded during binding arbitration for the final year of the agreement, retroactive to April 1, 2025.
World Council of Optometry updates Dry Eye Wheel with new clinical guidance
The updated tool adds new features to support dry eye assessment and management.

New CIHI report finds people crowding ERs because there’s nowhere to discharge them

Patients languish in inpatient units because of a lack of long-term care facilities, home care programs and rehab centres.
Group roils OMA governance

Plan to let past- OMA presidents run again fails but other reformer motions pass.
Nova Scotia failing to properly oversee addictions, mental health care, says auditor

The government created the office with its own dedicated minister in 2021 in response to a rise in mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here’s what you need to know about Ottawa’s new policies on social media and AI

Over the last two weeks of the parliamentary sitting, the Liberal government made a series of moves related to AI and digital regulation.
One of Canada's most prominent MAID providers reflects on divisive decade

Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a Vancouver doctor who has provided hundreds of medically assisted deaths, recalls her first patient in 2016 ahead of Canada's 10-year anniversary of legalizing the procedure.
Alberta dual-practice doctors could begin offering private surgeries in fall

The contentious move, announced last year, has drawn concern from the Opposition NDP and public health advocates who say it will degrade an already under-resourced public system, and is fundamentally unfair.
Committee majority recommends against MAID for mental illness, four senators object

A parliamentary committee is calling on the federal government to indefinitely exclude people with mental illness from becoming eligible for medical assistance in dying, after a process that some of the committee's members decried as flawed and biased.
Alberta strikes new deal with pharmacists, dispensing fees to see small bump

Primary Health Minister Justin Wright says the government has signed a new three-year funding agreement with pharmacists, and as part of the deal Alberta is increasing dispensing fees for the first time in a decade.

The AMA wanted a larger increase. Here’s the raise Alberta docs just got instead as part of Year 4 allocation

World Council of Optometry updates Dry Eye Wheel with new clinical guidance

New CIHI report finds people crowding ERs because there’s nowhere to discharge them

Group roils OMA governance

Nova Scotia failing to properly oversee addictions, mental health care, says auditor

Here’s what you need to know about Ottawa’s new policies on social media and AI

One of Canada's most prominent MAID providers reflects on divisive decade

Alberta dual-practice doctors could begin offering private surgeries in fall

Committee majority recommends against MAID for mental illness, four senators object

Alberta strikes new deal with pharmacists, dispensing fees to see small bump