Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kristy Kirkup
Publication Date: September 8, 2025 - 19:22
Pharmacare law cannot be implemented in inequitable way, former advisory council chair says
September 8, 2025
Ottawa must resume talks with jurisdictions that have not yet reached agreements to ensure free access to diabetes medications and supplies, as well as contraceptives, said the former chair of a pharmacare advisory council.
Eric Hoskins, whose council issued a report on the implementation of pharmacare in 2019, said in an interview there are currently millions of Canadians who could benefit from the federal government providing public coverage so patients do not have to pay out of pocket.
Mother Nature has been particularly inconsistent this year, according to Keystone Agricultural Producers Vice-President Jake Ayre.
September 8, 2025 - 22:10 | Iris Dyck | Global News - Canada
Surrounded by police and fire officials in dress uniforms, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim declared Monday that a special, seven-month police “surge” in the Downtown Eastside has significantly reduced crime there and in surrounding areas.He and Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai announced that the lessons from what was called Task Force Barrage will be used for a new model of policing the Downtown Eastside, with a reorganized management system at the top and more collaboration with community groups.
September 8, 2025 - 21:57 | Frances Bula, Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
The RCMP say a B.C. man and two men from Ottawa have been charged in the 2022 jailbreak of one of Canada’s most wanted gangsters.At a Monday news conference in their British Columbia headquarters, Mounties said Ottawa’s Edward Ayoub and John Potvin, both nearly 50, had been charged along with Ryan Van Gool, from the small Fraser Valley community of Harrison Hot Springs, east of Vancouver, with prison breach and conspiracy.The trio are accused of facilitating the brazen breakout of Rabih Alkhalil from a jail in Port Coquitlam, B.C., three years ago while he was on trial for the first-...
September 8, 2025 - 21:40 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
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