Health Canada continues to extend a metaphorical middle finger to average Canadians. As has been clearly established by an ongoing Toronto Star investigation, the protectorate persists in placing the fiscal health of the pharmaceutical industry above that of Canadians. Today’s Star reports: Canada’s biggest pharmacies are selling allergy pills made
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Politics and its Discontents: Tainted Pharmaceuticals: Health Canada’s ‘Feeble Response’
The Toronto Star has recently been conducting some fine investigative work on tainted pharmaceuticals and the fact that Health Canada has been shielding the guilty companies from public scrutiny. The issue finally rose to a degree of national prominence this week when the issue was raised in the House. The
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Indifference From Health Canada’s Towards Canadians’ Health
Health Minister Rona Ambrose really has no reason to smile. Last week, based on a Star Investigation, I outlined the shocking incompetence, indifference and completely unacceptable secrecy within Health Canada that allows for tainted, ineffective, and dangerous drugs to be sold regularly to Canadians. It was only because of the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On Health Canada’s Depraved Indifference
I entitled yesterday’s post “All Canadians Should Be Outraged.” Now I somehow doubt that all Canadians will get the chance, outside of those who read The Star. To my knowledge, no other news organization nor political party has weighed in on the issue of the secrecy practiced by Health Canada,
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