Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Sep, 2017 10:46 AM
The Ontario government has introduced a new bill it says will improve transparency in the province's health care system. The wide-ranging changes would amend 10 existing pieces of legislation if passed. Here are the key changes:
Mandatory disclosure of any payments pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers make to health care professionals.
Granting paramedics the ability to transport patients to non-hospital settings, like a mental health facility, following a 911 call.
New enforcement tools that would include higher fines and change the safety inspection program for the province's long-term care homes.
Clear regulations to ease public health enforcement of recreational water facilities like splash pads and wading pools and personal service settings like barber shops, tattoo parlours and nail salons.
A new licensing regime for community health facilities which operate medical radiation devices like X-rays, CT scanners and ultrasound machines.
New regulations for diagnostic medical sonographers who operate ultrasound machines.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Windy and unstable weather was forecast for most of southern and central British Columbia, conditions that officials say have the potential to kick up wildfires.
ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Justice says a Canadian man has been charged after allegedly flying to Atlanta in an attempt to have sex with a 13-year-old Georgia girl he met on the internet.
OTTAWA — A pledge by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to yank federal funding from universities that fail to uphold free speech wouldn't apply to a decision by the University of Toronto to ban a nationalist rally from campus, his spokesman said Wednesday.
Two of the men — Jagraj Mushki Nijjar, 23, and Jaskaran Singh Heer, 22 — were charged with firearm possession offences in March. Two others — Harjot Singh Samra, 21, and Gary Gurpreet Dhillon, 25 — were charged with trafficking offences in early August.
Mary Grams had lost her engagement ring while weeding her garden 13 years ago, and even bought a replacement so that she wouldn't have tp tell her husband.
Pete Fry is the son of longtime member of Parliament Hedy Fry, and he's been acclaimed as the Green party of Vancouver candidate for a byelection in October.
