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Nearly three-quarters of Ontario hospitals in deficit and many are cutting jobs
The Ministry of Health tasked hospitals last year with creating three-year plans to balance their budgets. Any ‘low risk’ ways to find savings were to be implemented immediately, and ‘high risk’ proposals were to be discussed at regional and provincial planning tables.
Second CaRMS round: 181 vacancies, including 139 in family medicine
The final picture of the Canadian resident matching program confirms a sharp increase in unfilled positions in family medicine. And Quebec, once again, accounts for the vast majority of them.

Canadian and U.S. FPs have highest burnout levels in OECD: report

Canada leads in innovation; 46% of family doctors have already integrated AI into their practices.
Call for abstracts now open for Pride and Progress 2027

Conference invites pharmacists and teams to showcase inclusive care initiatives and practice innovations at world's first LGBTQIA+ conference on pharmacy practice education and research.
‘Two ways of calculating’: Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices

During a Thursday event announcing a deal with drugmaker Regeneron to lower the cost of its pharmaceutical products, Trump defended his past claims that prices on prescription medications had been cut by well over 100%.
Come Canada Day, Ontario pharmacists could begin offering expanded services

Ontario Pharmacists Association CEO is ‘hopeful’ new minor ailment and vaccine services could launch this summer, though strep testing may face delays.
Two states down—Tennessee says PBMs can't own pharmacies

More than 160 independent pharmacies have closed in state since 2017 due to pricing and patient influence pressure wrought by PBMs and PBM-owned pharmacies.
Parliamentary committee on assisted dying has gone ‘off the rails,’ expert warns

Jocelyn Downie, a professor emeritus of law at Dalhousie University who has studied medical assistance in dying for decades, said the committee is hearing testimony that’s unrelated to its mandate and is heavily weighted toward people opposed to extending MAID to cover mental illness.
AI scribes produce poorer quality notes than human clinicians, new study finds

The study found that the AI scribes consistently received lower scores across 10 quality attributes when compared against notes written by human clinicians.
NOSM University seeks Indigenous placement partners to strengthen culturally grounded healthcare in the North

NOSM University is seeking placement opportunities for Indigenous medical learners across Northern Ontario, inviting clinics, hospitals, community health centres and Indigenous organizations to host students for hands-on clinical and community experiences.