Off label: the unintended consequences of label changes for consumers
While it is important for Canadians to be aware of the contents in products they consume, they already have the information they need to make informed choices.
Policies to protect kids’ health good for future health spending, too
Banning e-cigarette flavours and restricting the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children are vital to making our kids healthier adults.
Feds shouldn’t take food industry’s promise of good behaviour at face value
Despite voluntary code, the industry will continue to bombard Canadian children every year with millions of ads for unhealthy ultra-processed food and sugary drinks.
No movement on pharmacare calls Liberal-NDP deal into question
Without pharmacare, Justin Trudeau cannot claim to have delivered transformative change in Canada’s health-care system, and Jagmeet Singh cannot claim to have used his leverage through the confidence-and-supply deal to move forward on a progressive health-care agenda for Canadians.
PMPRB vacancies offer an opportunity for a course correction
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board just needs to stop trying to push an agenda and go back to doing its job as an impartial regulator that implements clear and predictable rules.
It will take action, not handshakes, to fix Canada’s health-care crisis
Increased federal health-care funding and bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories are welcome, but let’s not fall under the illusion that the health workforce crisis has vanished.
Feds ‘shooting themselves in the foot’ on cannabis excise tax as some producers choose illicit market over bankruptcy
Cannabis marketing CEO Lisa Campbell says she expects more than half of the existing licensed producers and retailers will fold in a year, well before ISED’s strategy table consultations conclude.
Feds puffed past opportunity for cannabis reform in budget
The most recent federal budget has harshed the cannabis industry’s buzz. As The Hill Times’ Stuart Benson reports, stakeholders were holding their breath for some excise tax relief in the new fiscal plan, in a similar vein to what was passed around to their alcohol counterparts. However, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland didn’t abide, and many […]
Food marketing is no child’s play
The food industry launched the new Code for the Responsible Advertising of Food and Beverage Products to Children in mid-2021, with implementation slated for July 1.
House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled
The House Health Committee’s report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent others from developing.
