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Canada releases 2021 Budget: Highlights from Canada’s plan to promote health, fight systemic racism, and empower Indigenous communities
On April 19, 2021, the Canadian Federal Government released its 2021 budget entitled A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience. The Budget is the first to be released since the COVID-19 pandemic began and attempts to address three key...
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Ontario extends ability for not-for-profit corporations to hold electronic meetings until December 31, 2021
On April 6, 2021, Ontario passed Regulation 251/21 under the Corporations Act, further extending the temporary legislative provisions permitting Ontario not-for-profit Corporations to hold Member, Board and Board Committee meetings electronically from May 31, 2021 until December 31, 2021. These...
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Ontario releases 2021 Budget: Highlights from Ontario’s Plan for Protecting People’s Health
On March 24, 2021, Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board, Peter Bethlenfalvy released Ontario’s budget for 2021, Ontario’s Action Plan: Protecting People’s Health and Our Economy. The 2021 Budget is a response to COVID-19 and is the...
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CPSO cautions doctor for “irresponsible” COVID-19 tweets
In a trio of decisions, all released on February 6, 2021, the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (“ICRC” or the “Committee”) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“CPSO”) ordered a physician to attend to be cautioned in...
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Public Hospital Advisory: Ministry of Health extends general approval under Public Hospitals Act of temporary capacity expansion for public hospitals
Public hospitals in Ontario continue to collaborate with healthcare and community partners to build system capacity in responding to COVID-19. Subsection 4(2) of Ontario’s Public Hospitals Act (“PHA”) requires the approval of the Minister of Health to operate or use...
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Significant changes to the regulation of health professionals make for a busy 2021
Keeping up to speed with changes in the world of health professional regulation in Alberta will keep almost anyone working in healthcare busy in 2021. Colleges have significant work ahead of them to review and revise professional regulations, bylaws and...
Guide pratique pour vendre des équipements de protection individuelle (EPI) aux marchés publics québécois
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La Grappe mmode a retenu les services de Me Philipp Park et Me Louis-Philippe Borduas pour la réalisation de la section sur les considérations légales de leur Guide pratique pour vendre des équipements de protection individuelle (EPI) aux marchés publics...
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Ontario launching new agency to centralize government procurement
On November 5, 2020, the Ontario government published Ontario Regulation 612/20 Centralized Supply Chain Ontario (the “Supply Chain Regulation”), under the Supply Chain Management Act, 2019 (the “Act”). The Supply Chain Regulation establishes Supply Ontario, a centralized procurement agency that...
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Bill 46: Alberta’s second omnibus health bill in 2020
On November 5, 2020, the Minister of Health introduced to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 46: Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 (No. 2) (the “Bill”). The Bill is an omnibus bill which amends the Health Professions Act, the Health...
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Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia (Attorney General): Case comment
Summary In Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia (Attorney General) (“Cambie”), the plaintiffs claimed that sections 14, 17, 18 and 45 of British Columbia’s (“B.C.”) Medicare Protection Act (the “MPA”) violated their rights under sections 7 and 15 of the...
