Canada&#39;s Dream Drug Schemes Warner Todd Huston
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Oh, it was a grand idea, seemed so bloody simple. If drugs are too expensive here, let&#39;s get them from Canada. How easy! We can make the deal cheaper for our poorest seniors and get back at the evil drug companies with the same plan.
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Harry Lime, peddling diluted penicillin in post-war Vienna in the 1949 film "The Third Man", was an early pioneer: today the counterfeit medicine business has gone global, fuelled by the "perfect channel" of the Internet, according to a U.N drug watchdog.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers grew eloquent as they pitched a federally funded pharmacare plan at the natural health summit Tuesday, and Prime Minister Paul Martin responded by agreeing to establish a federal-provincial working group on the issue.
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Like many discriminating shoppers, Sharon Burzan and her husband Vern want to find the best price for their prescription drugs - even if it means ordering them from Winnipeg, Canada.
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich has made headlines for turning to Canada to try to get prescription drugs at lower prices for the state. Now he's looking beyond the nation's northern neighbor.
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Canada's relaxed drug laws may be fueling a boom in marijuana exports to America
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Canada&#39;s governing Liberal Party re- introduced a bill decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana and hashish, in contrast with harsher US penalties.
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Most people probably find it hard to fathom why Peter Rost would want to stir up the pharmaceutical industry in such dramatic -- and possibly risky -- fashion.
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It&#39;s hard to believe that there was a time when the Ontario government could gamble on getting the money it needed from the tax base.
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According to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, the province is hooked on gambling. Reacting to a study that shows that 4.8 per cent of problem gamblers account for about 35 percent of all provincial gaming revenues, McGuinty said:
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta's film has a dream opening in Toronto.
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That&#39;s according to Canada&#39;s health minister. Speaking at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday, Ujjal Dosanjh says Canada can&#39;t be the &quot;drug store of the United States.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.
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Thatâs right! We should not be seeking out and buying prescription drugs that rightfully belong to our Canadian neighbors. By filling prescriptions at Canadian pharmacies, we are threatening the very quality
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A drug company executive who spoke out in support of Montgomery County's proposal to import drugs from Canada and similar legislation before Congress said that his company has launched an investigation into his political activities.
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TORONTO, Jan. 6 -- The Canadian health minister plans to restrict the supply of inexpensive prescription drugs shipped to about 2 million patients in the United States each year, and industry officials here are saying President Bush is behind the move.
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Political squabbling over a national pharmacare program is threatening to &quot;scuttle and destroy&quot; next month&#39;s federal-provincial health conference, which is fundamentally about the future of Canada, former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow has warned.