Unpublished Newswire
Alberta intends to allow physicians working in the province’s public health care system to simultaneously offer services in a parallel private market, according to confidential draft legislation obtained by The Globe and Mail.Premier Danielle Smith’s government has prepared draft amendments that would transform the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act and establish a model for medicine unlike any in the country. No other Canadian province allows doctors to offer care under both systems at the same time.
November 18, 2025 - 04:10 | Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
The number of sick days public servants took during the month they were forced back to the office three days a week rose significantly compared to the same period in previous years. Read More
November 18, 2025 - 04:00 | Matteo Cimellaro | Ottawa Citizen
Ashok Kumar Biswas was working as a geriatric public health specialist in 2017 when he met a Canadian immigration official who encouraged him to apply to come to Canada. Read More
November 18, 2025 - 04:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
A heartfelt thank you to Andrew Duffy and his article ”The Calligrapher of Canada’s War Dead” Read More
November 18, 2025 - 04:00 | Nicole Feriancek | Ottawa Citizen
In October, University of Montreal computer scientist Yoshua Bengio reached an extraordinary milestone. According to the academic search engine Google Scholar, he is the first living person to be cited in research literature more than one million times.Dr. Bengio was born in France and raised and educated in Montreal. A pivotal figure in the discoveries that underpin the AI revolution, he can rightly be called an example of Canadian science at its best – a homegrown genius whose impact is global and, now, record-setting.
November 18, 2025 - 04:00 | Ivan Semeniuk | The Globe and Mail
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.
November 18, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
