Government & Policy

TORONTO — Ontario’s top doctor is calling for a national immunization schedule and registry to address gaps exposed by the resurgence of measles in Canada — but first, he says his own province needs a centralized digital vaccine system. Read More

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec is injecting an additional $95 million into the Digital Health Record (DSN) managed by Santé Québec. The decision was ratified by the Council of Ministers last week. Read More

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is ending an online tool meant to help Albertans navigating addiction treatment and recovery in the province. The My Recovery Plan app was launched in 2021 and was designed to be a health record software system, collecting the personal health data of people in recovery to track individual progress. Read More

TORONTO — The Ontario government has announced a $235 million investment to support over 130 new and expanded primary care teams that will connect 300,000 people to primary care this year. Read More

EDMONTON — In a video posted to X, premier Danielle Smith (pictured) announced the government’s latest plans for healthcare reshuffling, which includes eliminating all five Alberta Health Services (AHS) zones and moving to a “hospital-based leadership structure.” Read More

VICTORIA – The BC government is expanding its cost-cutting review to include regional health authorities as it focuses on minimizing unnecessary administrative spending. Ideas include more shared services for procurement and IT, according to the ministry of health. Read More

EDMONTON – Alberta premier Danielle Smith (pictured) has announced an overhaul of several government ministries, creating two new health services portfolios and replacing her Indigenous relations minister. Former health minister Adriana LaGrange has been sworn in as minister of primary and preventative health services, while former jobs minister Matt Jones is in charge of hospital and surgical health services. Read More

OTTAWA – Newly elected prime minister Mark Carney has named his cabinet, and Marjorie Michel (pictured left), a Montreal member of parliament has been appointed as Minister of Health. Interestingly, the prime minister has created a new role, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, and has moved Toronto MP Evan Solomon (pictured right) – a former journalist – into the portfolio. Read More

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – An online fundraising campaign has been started on behalf of former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos (pictured). As of Sunday evening, the GoFundMe had cleared more than $66,000 of its $100,000 goal in support of Mentzelopoulos’s legal costs. Read More