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B.C. pharmacist who faked his COVID-19 vaccinations suspended for 30 days
Needles are seen filled with the vaccination for COVID-19 at a truck stop on highway 91 North in Delta, B.C., Wednesday, June 16, 2021. A British Columbia pharmacist has been disciplined for falsifying provincial health records and claiming to be vaccinated against COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Markham employee on leave after using racial slur in George Brown College guest lecture
People walk near an entrance to George Brown College in Toronto on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. The downtown Toronto college says it is investigating after a guest speaker used the N-word during a case study presentation on Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
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Ontario colleges introduce new rules to protect foreign students from recruiters’ false, misleading claims
Students walking on St. George St. near the University of Toronto, are photographed on Nov 23, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail.
opinion
We need a national licensing system for Canadian doctors
André Picard
music
The King’s Singers refuse to let Florida cancellation over performer’s ‘lifestyle’ affect their wholesome vibe
Kings Singers _2021_Photo-Frances-Marshall3867.jpg The King's Singers promo shots.
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Medical regulatory bodies say they’re facing more abuse, harassment as public frustration mounts
Health workers look at an anti-vaccine mandate protest outside Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
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Ontario physicians college failed to properly investigate gender discrimination, improper billing complaints, court rules
Elizabeth McKenna read a victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing for psychiatrist Dr. Raymond Liebl.McKenna filed a complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons against Liebl.Sept.5.2001 Fred Lum/ Globe and Mail DIGITAL IMAGE.
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Pharmacist alleges firms curb supply of pet medicine to hike prices
Pharmacist Dr. Wendy Chui of Canada Chemists Pharmacy is photographed in the pharmacy's compounding room on Thursday, January 26, 2023. (Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons limits building access after threats
A medical stethoscope is shown in Gaza City, Sept.7, 2015. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual medicine provided a way for patients to see doctors during a lockdown, but it also offered hope that technology could alleviate chronic pressure on a strained health system. But for many the early promise has proven illusory. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Khalil Hamra
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National physicians certification body aims to fast-track certification of more foreign-trained doctors
A COVID-19 unit is shown at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. A Manitoba doctor says hospitals are full, health-care workers are quitting and the system is overwhelmed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mikaela MacKenzie-POOL
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Quebec’s college of physicians recommends masking in public as COVID-19 cases surge
A commuter wearing a protective mask rides a near empty subway train in Montreal, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Masks will no longer be required on public transit in Quebec beginning today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Police investigate shooting near College Montmorency in Laval, Que.
The Laval police logo is seen on a police car, Tuesday, October 18, 2022, in Laval, Que. Three people were shot and injured in a park near junior college in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Police arrest man, 19, after lockdown at Quebec junior college south of Montreal
The Montreal Police logo is seen on a police car in Montreal on July 8, 2020. Montreal police say they've opened an investigation into the death of an 81-year-old-woman at a senior's residence in the city's Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough last week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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LGBTQ students allege mistreatment, want change at Saskatchewan Bible college
Kristen, right, and Jody Hartung pose for a photograph at their home in Saskatoon, Thursday, October 6, 2022. Both women have stated that they are being discriminated against when they enrolled at Briercrest College because they are part of the LGBTQ community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
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Northern health leader says language test is a barrier to Indigenous nurses
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, a paramedic, center, looks down at her telephone at the emergency entrance to a hospital in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. In South Africa, the job of a paramedic can be perilous. Uniformed paramedics marched and ambulance lights flashed during a protest this week against attacks on the emergency responders, who are sometimes targeted by criminals when they rush to treat patients in poor communities, particularly at night. One demonstrator's sign read: "Keep our medics safe!!" (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Ontario nursing college allowed to temporarily register international nurses
A nurse looks outside while in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Ontario's nursing college can now start allowing internationally educated nurses to practice while they work toward full registration. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Sexual assault trial resumes for Dany Fortin, the military officer who led COVID-19 vaccine campaign
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin speaks to reporters outside the Gatineau Police Station after being processed, in Gatineau, Que., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. The sexual assault trial against Fortin is set to resume for a third day in a Gatineau courtroom this morning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Olympic Refugee Team athletes continue trail blazing in Canada, giving refugees hope
Olympic Refugee Team athletes James Nyang Chiengjie, Rose Nathike Lokonyen and Paulo Amotun Lokoro are photographed at the Sheridan College campus in Brampton on September, 2022. JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Federal immigration committee to investigate allegations department misled a judge
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino arrives at a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Calls grow to streamline licensing for doctors as health-care systems struggle
Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S. on Thursday, July 4, 2013. Nova Scotia Health is warning the public to expect delays in emergency room and ambulance service over the holiday long weekend because of staffing shortages.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Former telecom executive donates $50-million to McMaster to create a leadership centre
HAMILTON, JULY 24, 2018 - McMaster University Campus in Hamilton on July 24, 2018. Glenn Lowson photo/The Globe and Mail - Uni-Report Magazine
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Former teacher, pandemic commentator faces sexual-abuse allegations
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Ontario allows nursing college to expedite international nurse registration
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones makes an announcement at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, Thursday, August 18, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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What’s in style at Canada’s fashion schools: Hand stitching, pattern making and 3-D tech
This photo includes students creating a Zero Waste design using scrap fabrics for their “Responsible Innovative Design” class at LaSalle College Vancouver. They are using a quarter scale model to envision their collections. Students are tasked with utilizing deadstock and waste fabrics, and are learning how to create patterns that minimize fabric waste in the design and manufacturing process. This class is part of our new Bachelor’s of Fashion Design program at LaSalle. Students will be showcasing their designs at the college on Friday, September 9th at 5pm.
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Ontario to boost private clinic surgeries, move elderly patients to long-term care to ease hospital strain
Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health takes her oath at the swearing-in ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto on June 24, 2022. Ontario is set to announce a plan today to stabilize the health-care system as a staffing crisis continues within hospitals across the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario Health Minister hints at plan to address health sector crisis with a shift away from ‘status quo’
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is expanding a program that allows paramedics to take patients somewhere other than an emergency room, such as a mental health facility, or to treat them on scene. Paramedics transfer a patient out of their ambulance to the emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Monday, January 10, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario directs regulator to register internationally trained nurses more quickly
Sylvia Jones, Ontario Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, takes her oath at a swearing-in ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto on June 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Health regulators urged to act more as level of corporate ownership rises
Dentist Kal Khaled at his Mississauga clinic, July 26, 2022. Dr. Khaled is also the president of the Ontario Alliance of Dentists.
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Ontario nursing groups want faster licensing for international nurses amid ER issues
A medical bed is photographed is shown in the trauma bay during simulation training at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, August 13, 2019. Ontario nursing organizations are calling for a faster licensing process for the thousands of internationally trained nurses awaiting a decision from the profession's regulator. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
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Minister says more doctors across Canada should prescribe safer drugs to reduce overdoses
Carolyn Bennett rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, June 10, 2022. Canada's minister of mental health and addictions says more doctors across the country should be willing to prescribe a safer supply of drugs instead of fearing they will be investigated by their regulatory colleges.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Abrupt closure of several private addictions clinics across Alberta has physicians worried
Levitee Labs acquired this addictions treatment clinic in Calgary last year but it is now being closed, Thurs July 14, 2022.. Alanna Smith/The Globe and Mail Location: 1410 11 Ave SW
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Quebec teenager killed in crash between transit bus, delivery van in B.C.
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Pitching in: Innis College screening raises $30,000 to fund scholarships for refugee students
Pitching IN They are Ukrainian-Canadian undergraduate students at the University of Toronto, and they all participated in the special fundraising event in support of the Innis College Ukrainian Community Scholars at Risk Scholarship. From left to right: Oleksandr Kozin, Zoriana Wankiewitz, Yaryna Datsyuk
opinion
The CAF’s sexual misconduct crisis is not reason enough to dispense with Canada’s military colleges
Lawrence Stevenson
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St. John’s basilica sold for more than $3-million to pay survivors of church abuse
The Basilica of St. John the Baptist's twin Romanesque towers are shown in the fog in downtown St. John's on Wednesday June 1, 2022. At noon Atlantic time on Thursday, bids are due from all prospective buyers of the massive Basilica of St John the Baptist, a looming Romanesque cathedral that has dominated the view of downtown St. John's for over 150 years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sarah Smellie
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Former top neurologist to stand trial for sexual-assault charge involving patient
Dr. Allan Gordon, 73, a neurologist at Mount Sinai hospital, leaves the Ontario College of Surgeons and Physicians after having his medical license revoked for professional incompetence in Toronto office on October 12, 2018. (Michelle Siu/The Globe and Mail)