Unpublished Newswire

The Legault government has introduced Bill 2, a controversial new law that changes how today’s doctors are being paid for the services they provide. It ties a portion of a doctor’s paycheque to performance targets, while also imposing strict sanctions upon anyone who is caught for non-compliance. How strict, you may ask? A doctor is slapped with a $20,000 fine for each day a violation is committed. For any groups who are caught in the act, punishments can go as high as $500,000. All of this has fueled a massive demonstration in Quebec City, where over 1,000 protestors shouted...

More than half of today’s students who attend schools in Ottawa and Toronto don’t have up-to-date immunization records. And according to public health records, both cities are falling behind. As of October 12th, Ottawa’s Public Health Unit said that roughly 16,000 students’ immunization records were not up to date, a list that starts in Grade 2 and goes as far as Grade 12. That’s over 66 percent of children in those age groups. Dr. Paul Roumeliotis is the Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit. He sifts through the latest batch of data...