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The budget will also extend the temporary boost to the GST rebate for low-income Canadians, but will frame the payment as help with the rising cost of groceries.

Opposition parties believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff Katie Telford knows when and what kind of information Trudeau had on foreign election interference.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is sponsoring a motion that calls on Trudeau’s chief of staff to publicly address the matter.

Pharmacare could be an election issue this fall. Here's what you need to know about the program.

As pressure builds on the Liberals to implement pharmacare, questions are being raised about whether Ottawa’s model will materialize as a truly universal, single-payer program.

As of Thursday, B.C. PharmaCare drug coverage expands. 'The medication in question affects 245,000 people. These are much-needed medications in our province,' the province said.

The tool monitors diabetics' blood sugar levels in real-time through a sensor attached to the skin, and transmits the information to an app.

An elected NDP government would implement a pharmacare program within one year, said leader Jagmeet Singh.

The NDP's confidence-and-supply agreement signed with the Liberals last March includes promises by Trudeau's government to pass pharmacare legislation by the end of this year.

Canada should have a comprehensive national pharmacare program for all, according to a federal advisory council.

An estimated one in five New Brunswickers is uninsured or underinsured, according to the provincial Department of Health.

Wednesday's report includes 18 recommendations the committee says could form a blueprint of sorts for a new single-payer, publicly funded prescription drug coverage program.

A study says 731,000 Canadians have had to borrow to pay for medications. Bill Kelly says that shouldn't happen in a country as prosperous as Canada.

'This issue has been studied way more than it should have been .... This is where we need to go,' says political economist Marc-Andre Gagnon about universal pharmacare.

Pharmacare in Canada should include a national drug formulary and a national agency to run it, but an interim report doesn't detail what that looks like.

Lung and cognitive therapies, inhalers and beta blockers are among some of the remedies prescribed to help treat the most common symptoms of long COVID.

Health Minister Adrian Dix said he'd been informed there were issues with the pharmacy, and that the province had taken action pending the investigation's outcome.

While some of the Budget 2022 omissions, like pharmacare, aren’t unexpected, others, including defence spending, fell far short of what Canadians might have hoped to see.

Some provinces have addressed the issue — Nova Scotia, for example — but B.C. says it is still working on a solution to help.

The party, which has been promising to table this legislation for some time, says its proposal is based on the principles of the Canada Health Act.

Many Canadians are having trouble paying for their medication, according to a poll commissioned by two health care organizations.

Here's a running list of the health care promises.