Unpublished Newswire

Ozempic is far and away the best-selling drug in Canada by revenue, with $2.8-billion in retail sales last year alone. It’s not clear, however, how much of that number comes from patients paying out of pocket to use Ozempic off-label for weight loss, but it is likely significant. In the current environment, no public and few private insurance plans cover Ozempic or Wegovy for weight management, though Ozempic is covered for diabetes. Wegovy is the same drug, semaglutide, just sold at a different dose and approved expressly for weight loss.

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes for a hastened resolution on U.S. steel and aluminium tariffs, he left the White House having put energy on the table as an area of cooperation in exchange for progress on a trade deal.  A source with knowledge of the discussions between the president and the prime minister said that Carney raised the idea of possibly revisiting the Keystone XL pipeline, which Trump has supported for years....