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Author: Eric Andrew-Gee
Publication Date: November 5, 2025 - 16:08
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Quebec doctors threaten to resign or leave the province after new law alters their pay
November 5, 2025
Quebec doctors are up in arms over a new provincial law reforming physician pay, with many threatening to leave the province or quit the profession unless the government backs down.
Bill 2, as it’s known, would link doctor pay more closely to the number of patients they enroll, especially vulnerable ones, along with other performance markers.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pointed to her advisers when asked to explain how an Edmonton businessman whose contracts with the province’s health agency are now under scrutiny ended up in a hotel suite with her top lieutenants on the night of the 2023 provincial election. A Globe and Mail investigation published over the weekend examined the links between medical supply company executive Sam Mraiche and Ms. Smith’s government. The Globe found Mr. Mraiche, whose company MHCare was awarded more than $600-million in contracts with Alberta Health Services, had more extensive connections to...
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More cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed at Stage 4 in recent years compared with about a decade earlier, a development that experts behind a new study suggest could be linked with official recommendations discouraging the use of a hotly debated screening test.The prostate-specific antigen test is a simple blood test that can serve as an early warning signal of cancer in men with no symptoms. But the test also has risks: It can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of slow-growing prostate tumours that might never have caused harm had they remained undiscovered. For that reason, a...
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