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Publication Date: November 18, 2025 - 04:00
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Shoppers Drug Mart billed $81M for MedsChecks in 2 years when COVID services waned
November 18, 2025
Shoppers Drug Mart billed the Ontario government’s MedsCheck program $81.2 million for medication reviews over a two-year period when some of its current and former pharmacists said they were facing “unethical” corporate pressure to meet targets for the professional service.
The addictions crisis is seeping into every corner of the province, including in remote and isolated communities in northern Manitoba.
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
It’s shaping up to be a nasty blast of winter across the Prairies today with snowstorms and blizzards set to dump up to 30 centimetres in some areas.Environment Canada says heavy snow will have a stranglehold on morning commutes in parts of northwestern Alberta, starting in Grande Prairie and heading east towards Edmonton, before tapering off later Wednesday.
December 17, 2025 - 06:52 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
A few months ago, I went to a birthday party at a bar in Neepsend, an old industrial neighbourhood by the River Don in Sheffield. The bar had been a steelworks once, but now it was another example of the international style you find everywhere, from Portland, Oregon, to all the other Portlands in Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand: exposed brick, steel beams, concrete floors, Edison bulbs. The steelworkers had been transformed into accountants and brand managers, the molten pig iron into £9 cocktails.
When we sat down for dinner, I was placed next to a German who ran a small...
December 17, 2025 - 06:30 | André Forget | Walrus
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