Government & Policy

OTTAWA – The Honourable Patty Hajdu (pictured), minister of health, announced the signature of a bilateral agreement with Ontario to enhance the province’s virtual health services. Ontario will receive $46 million to expand its efforts on virtual healthcare. Read More

EDMONTON – Alberta is spending an additional $33 million this year on non-emergency CT scans and MRIs as a way of clearing a backlog of diagnostic imaging exams for non-emergency cases. The money, included in the 2021 budget, will help pay for staffing required to do as many as additional 50,000 CT scans and 45,000 MRIs in the upcoming fiscal year. It is a one-time expenditure on top of the regular spending on diagnostic imaging. Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. – The federal government’s FedDev Ontario announced an investment of $6 million for Hamilton’s Innovation Factory, which will work alongside the Synapse Life Science Consortium to launch the Southern Ontario Pharmaceutical and Health Innovation Ecosystem (SOPHIE). Read More

TORONTO – The Government of Ontario announced $23.5 million in funding over the next five years for the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest. This funding will enable CABHI to continue its work as a world-leading solution accelerator driving innovation in the aging and brain health sector. Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. – The federal government announced an investment of $3 million for the city of Kingston, in partnership with Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College, Green Centre Canada, Kingston Health Sciences Centre, and the Kingston Economic Development Corp., to establish a health innovation ecosystem in the region. Read More

FREDERICTON, NB – The governments of Canada and New Brunswick have announced 39 applied research projects under the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project. The projects aim to better support seniors in their homes, communities and care facilities while promoting healthy aging. Read More

TORONTO – The Public Health Agency of Canada is providing $21 million over five years to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to implement and sustain a fully operational pan-Canadian suicide prevention service in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Crisis Services Canada (CSC). Read More

TORONTO – The Ontario government announced that it will use integrated data and deep analytics to drive decision-making and inform planning related to pandemic response, leveraging DNAstack’s COVID Cloud platform. DNAstack is a Toronto-based software company that developed COVID Cloud, a cloud-based genomic database of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and bioinformatics tool. Read More

VICTORIA, BC – An $8.4-million investment in education and training programs will enable people to train for high-demand jobs as healthcare assistants caring for B.C.’s seniors. “We’re expanding the number of healthcare assistants working in B.C. to strengthen the level of care for people in long-term care homes and assisted-living residences,” said Adrian Dix, (pictured) minister of health. “The Health Career Access Program is underway and is already helping train workers for some of the most important jobs in B.C.” Read More

KITCHENER, Ont. – Raj Saini, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre, on behalf of the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages and Minister responsible for FedDev Ontario, announced a FedDev Ontario investment of $500,000 for Cloud DX Inc. (Cloud DX), a medical technology company that delivers Remote Patient Monitoring solutions for global healthcare providers. Read More