Lumeca Health is Making Healthcare Accessible to All By Tina Costanza Lumeca Health first took root inside Shawn Hazen’s company and it’s now expanding outside Saskatchewan and formed a partnership with Cowessess First Nation to provide people with greater access to healthcare. Based in Regina, Lumeca Health offers an app that serves [...]
Province's First Public-Private Project Yields Long-Term Care Home It’s said that good things happen in threes, and that’s just what appears to have happened in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. The construction and opening of a new state-of-the-art long-term care home has created jobs, relieved the health-care system, and marked the completion [...]
The Able Label As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. It 1998, while Dr. George Ambartsoumian was a post-doctoral fellow at the Shriner’s Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the labels on his samples kept failing because he was storing them in liquid nitrogen and working with harsh chemicals. Dr. Ambartsoumian’s [...]
Saskatchewan’s First Maternal and Children’s Hospital Now Complete Women and Children in Saskatchewan now have greater access to world-class pediatric and maternal health care. The province’s first maternal and children’s hospital opened after great anticipation in the fall of 2019. Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation and its many partners began a quest [...]
A New Beginning The De Novo Treatment Centre, De Novo meaning “a new beginning”, is an alcohol and drug addiction treatment centre operated as a partnership between management and labour in Ontario’s construction industry. Since 2002, over 4,000 men and nearly 200 women have received treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at [...]
By Anna Guy While the cannabis industry is still in its infancy, the Pure Global team is comprised of seasoned veterans in pharma, biotechnology, horticultural, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and supply chain, comprising what is widely considered to be the next generation of global cannabis companies. Based in Brampton, Ontario, Pure Global Cannabis Inc. [...]
Improved access to life-saving health care is on the way to downtown Vancouver with the approval of the business plan for a new St. Paul’s Hospital. “For over 125 years, people in Vancouver and across British Columbia have benefitetd from the health care provided by St. Paul’s Hospital,” said Premier John Horgan on February [...]
The Science of Cannabis By Anna Guy Now that cannabis is legal in Canada, many consumers have questions about the effects and outcomes from using it. People’s desire to use cannabis ranges a great deal, as does the desired effect individuals seek. Some users seek a recreational high, others only want the medicinal benefits. [...]
Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation One of Canada’s premiere pharmaceutical search and development facilities is growing. Montreal’s NEOMED Institute, renowned for bridging the gap between basic research and the commercialization of new drugs, has changed the pharma R&D business model by combining industrial expertise with drug discovery and development acumen. In 2019, it will [...]
Cannabis 2.0 By Anna Guy 2018 will be noted in the history books as the year Canada did away with draconian laws surrounding marijuana and passed Bill-45, otherwise now as the Cannabis Act, which will amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts to allow Canadians to [...]