Health Care Insights

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Unions Denied Leave to Supreme Court

Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski

Published: June 14, 2017

Categories: Health Care, Labour & Employment

This post is further to our previous blog regarding an application by Saskatchewan health-care unions for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. On June 1, 2017 the Supreme…

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Health-Care Unions File Application for Leave to Supreme Court of Canada on Employer Communication Rights

Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski

Published: April 10, 2017

Categories: Health Care, Labour & Employment

On February 10, 2017 Health-Care Provider Unions SEIU-West and SGEU filed an Application for Leave to the Supreme Court of Canada requesting that the Court hear the issue of whether…

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Intentions Passing Like Ships in the Night

Authors: Anna Solmundson, Grant Stefanson

Published: April 7, 2017

Categories: Health Care, Labour & Employment

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (Regional Pharmacy Program) v. Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals is a recent decision of Arbitrator Peltz (“Arbitrator”) that highlights the importance of collective agreement language…

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Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Finds Decision on Employer Communications Issue Reasonable

Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski

Published: December 16, 2016

Categories: Health Care, Labour & Employment

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP.  On December 12, 2016, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal issued a…

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Saskatchewan Court Finds Unions Not Entitled to Damages in “Right to Strike” Challenge

Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski

Published: November 10, 2016

Categories: Health Care, Labour & Employment

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. As we outlined in our previous insight on February 2, 2015,…

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Canada’s New Law on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Kristél Kriel

Published: June 29, 2016

Categories: Health Care

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Erin Wolff, Kristél Kriel In recent blog posts, we…

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Medical Assistance in Dying – The Deadline Has Passed, Now What?

Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Kristél Kriel

Published: June 8, 2016

Categories: Health Care

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Erin Wolff, Kristél Kriel In a recent blog post,…

Saskatchewan’s Health Information Protection Act Amended

Published: June 1, 2016

Categories: Health Care, Privacy

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. Author: Erin Wolff The Government of Saskatchewan has amended The Health Information…

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Medically-Assisted Dying – Where are we, and where are we going?

Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Kristél Kriel

Published: April 21, 2016

Categories: Health Care

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. Authors: Lynsey Gaudin, Erin Wolff, Kristél Kriel There have been a number…

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Saskatchewan Mental Health Services Legislation Amended

Published: January 28, 2016

Categories: Health Care

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. Author: Erin Wolff In December 2013, we posted about proposed amendments to…