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canada
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After 8 years, Quebec’s adverse event reporting law remains unenforceable
The Montreal Gazette‘s Charlie Fidelman has assembled a round-up of what has, and hasn’t, happened in the eight years since…
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Montreal reporter finds that envelopes of cash improve access to care
The Montreal Gazette‘s Charlie Fidelman has uncovered a shadowy pay-for-care system in that city’s public hospitals which promises patients quicker…
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CEO uses cookie to avoid speaking to reporters
This week’s equivalent of “Don’t touch my junk” just might be “I’m eating my cookie.” That was the response given…
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Canadians fight for disclosure of medical treatment
It took eight years, a whistleblower and intervention from a state commissioner to uncover a fatal medical error in a…
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Canadian government obstructs journalists’ access
Writing in Nature News, Kathryn O’Hara celebrates Right to Know Week by declaring that “the information policies of Conservative Prime…
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Tracking Canada’s asbestos funding
Fallout from Dangers in the Dust, the mammoth asbestos investigation by the BBC and the Center for Public Integrity/International Consortium…
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List reveals drugs U.S. consumers buy from Canada
Photo by pulsman via Flickr. On the Los Angeles Times‘ Booster Shots blog, Jeannine Stein has located the Canadian International…
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Blog tracks Canadian health policy reports
Canadian journalist Carl Meyer has turned reportscanada.ca into a one-stop clearinghouse of policy reports from the Canadian government and non-governmental…
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Open access to research recognized this week
It’s Open Access week! Time to honor the principle that scientific research should be made available for free online immediately…
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Polls, studies used to compare U.S., Canada care
The Associated Press’ Charmaine Noronha takes another look at the Canadian health care system, focusing on the debate over its…