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Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: May 22, 2025 - 21:00
Provinces should cover weight-loss drugs for people with pre-existing cardiovascular disease, says drug agency
May 22, 2025
Provincial governments should pay for the weight-loss drug Wegovy for people who are overweight and have survived a heart attack or stroke, according to a new report from the organization that advises Canadian public drug plans on which new medications to cover. Canada’s Drug Agency, which released the draft recommendation on Thursday, said taxpayer-funded drug plans should reimburse Wegovy for people with a body mass index of 27 or higher and pre-existing cardiovascular disease because a clinical trial found the once-weekly injection cut their risk of another heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death by 20 per cent.
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June 13, 2025 - 06:31 | Arno Kopecky | Walrus
Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received almost universal acclaim. And nowhere because, for all their hints of hard living and their undercurrent of despair, her poems divulge little of the author herself. But time happens to the best of us. Her first book, Short Haul Engine, was published in 2001—nearly a quarter century ago. Now Solie is pushing sixty, and I feel old.
Born in 1966, Solie is roughly the same age as...
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