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alberta mayors call for vaccine passports
by: ashley joannou a dozen edmonton-area mayors have si...
edmonton journal
covid-19 vaccine
sep 8 2021
nicole goehring, ndp culture critic, left, david shepherd, ndp health critic, tyson boyd, owner and operator of the starlite room, and rob browatzke, co-owner of evolution wonderlounge, call for a vaccine passport system to allow event venues to survive the covid-19 pandemic during a news conference at the starlite room in edmonton, on tuesday, sept. 7, 2021.

alberta will no longer demand nurses take pay cut
as the province gears up for a fourth wave, the government is no longer asking nurses to work for less.
edmonton journal
policy & government
sep 8 2021
heather smith, united nurses of alberta president, is pictured here in march 2021. the union said tuesday that alberta health services’ latest proposal “represents progress.”

the fight for funding life-saving glucose monitors
lesley graham says her daughter would be alive today if she could have afforded a continuous glucose monitor.
vanessa hrvatin
diabetes
aug 22 2021
samantha graham died of complications due to type 1 diabetes. she was 27. supplied

ont. emergency order holds nurses 'basically hostage'
an interview with cathryn hoy, the vice president of the ontario nurses association, on why her colleagues are leaving.
maija kappler
policy & government
aug 12 2021
a respiratory therapist and six nurses prepare to prone a coronavirus disease at the intensive care unit of humber river hospital in toronto. carlos osorio / reuters

opinion: should we trust the feds' plan for pricing drugs?
canada’s policy on new patented medicines needs to strike a balance between innovation, research, manufacturing and patient access.
nigel rawson & john adams
opinion
jul 28 2021
when created in 1987, the pmprb was canada’s only protection against excessive drug prices.

dea argues allowing limited amounts of medical psilocybin could bolster illegal drug trade
"no small number of unscrupulous people will make use of the right to try exemptions to serve their commercial needs.”
angela stelmakowich, the growth op
policy & government
jul 1 2021
fa medical institute, two cancer patients and a doctor argue that they should have access to psilocybin for their conditions. /

opinion: public medicare is on trial, pay attention
are we ready for medically necessary care to be allocated based on ability to pay, instead of need?
colleen m. flood and bryan thomas
opinion
jun 22 2021
at issue is how we reconcile individual rights with (often imperfect) public policies that aim to protect and promote the health of all.

was 'pneumonia' chatter in europe a covid-19 warning?
researchers saw increasing concern on twitter about cases between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020.
nick beare
coronavirus
jan 26 2021
the spanish steps are reflected in a sunglasses of a woman wearing a face mask, as local authorities in the italian capital rome order face coverings to be worn at all times out of doors in an effort to counter rising coronavirus disease (covid-19) infections, in rome, italy october 2, 2020.
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alberta mayors call for vaccine passports
by: ashley joannou a dozen edmonton-area mayors have si...
edmonton journal
covid-19 vaccine
sep 8 2021
nicole goehring, ndp culture critic, left, david shepherd, ndp health critic, tyson boyd, owner and operator of the starlite room, and rob browatzke, co-owner of evolution wonderlounge, call for a vaccine passport system to allow event venues to survive the covid-19 pandemic during a news conference at the starlite room in edmonton, on tuesday, sept. 7, 2021.

alberta will no longer demand nurses take pay cut
as the province gears up for a fourth wave, the government is no longer asking nurses to work for less.
edmonton journal
policy & government
sep 8 2021
heather smith, united nurses of alberta president, is pictured here in march 2021. the union said tuesday that alberta health services’ latest proposal “represents progress.”

the fight for funding life-saving glucose monitors
lesley graham says her daughter would be alive today if she could have afforded a continuous glucose monitor.
vanessa hrvatin
diabetes
aug 22 2021
samantha graham died of complications due to type 1 diabetes. she was 27. supplied

ont. emergency order holds nurses 'basically hostage'
an interview with cathryn hoy, the vice president of the ontario nurses association, on why her colleagues are leaving.
maija kappler
policy & government
aug 12 2021
a respiratory therapist and six nurses prepare to prone a coronavirus disease at the intensive care unit of humber river hospital in toronto. carlos osorio / reuters
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opinion: should we trust the feds' plan for pricing drugs?
canada’s policy on new patented medicines needs to strike a balance between innovation, research, manufacturing and patient access.
nigel rawson & john adams
opinion
jul 28 2021
when created in 1987, the pmprb was canada’s only protection against excessive drug prices.

dea argues allowing limited amounts of medical psilocybin could bolster illegal drug trade
"no small number of unscrupulous people will make use of the right to try exemptions to serve their commercial needs.”
angela stelmakowich, the growth op
policy & government
jul 1 2021
fa medical institute, two cancer patients and a doctor argue that they should have access to psilocybin for their conditions. /

opinion: public medicare is on trial, pay attention
are we ready for medically necessary care to be allocated based on ability to pay, instead of need?
colleen m. flood and bryan thomas
opinion
jun 22 2021
at issue is how we reconcile individual rights with (often imperfect) public policies that aim to protect and promote the health of all.

was 'pneumonia' chatter in europe a covid-19 warning?
researchers saw increasing concern on twitter about cases between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020.
nick beare
coronavirus
jan 26 2021
the spanish steps are reflected in a sunglasses of a woman wearing a face mask, as local authorities in the italian capital rome order face coverings to be worn at all times out of doors in an effort to counter rising coronavirus disease (covid-19) infections, in rome, italy october 2, 2020.
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