The practice of sharing sensitive health information via fax or unencrypted email needs to stop, according to a joint statement from Canada’s privacy commissioners.
On September 21, Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy… Read More
The ability to effectively promote and market your pharmacy and its services is fundamental to maintaining and growing a successful business. Where pharmacies diverge from other industries is that, in… Read More
Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Shane Buchanan
On April 17, 2020, the government of Saskatchewan issued a public health order requiring all operators of special-care homes and personal care homes to restrict… Read More
Authors: Tom Provost, Dan Robillard
This is the second of a two-part series where we outline some of the essential points buyers need to know before purchasing a pharmacy. Read part one.
After… Read More
Authors: Maria A. Penner, Dan Robillard
Picture this: you’ve been thinking of buying a pharmacy, and an opportunity to purchase one has just presented itself. It seems like a dream come true—why… Read More
Authors: Grant Stefanson and Anna Solmundson
The proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has been negotiated as a replacement of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and was announced on September 30,… Read More
Author: Leah Schatz, Q.C.
Carla Smith first began working for the Saskatoon Community Clinic (“the Clinic”) in March of 1975. She retired in 2008 but came back to work for the… Read More
Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski
In a recent Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision, Wieler v. Saskatoon Convalescent Home, 2017 SKCA 90, the employer terminated an employee by paying her severance… Read More
Author: Anna Solmundson
As children go back to school from a summer off and days get shorter, many will come down with colds and other illnesses. For some, it will be a… Read More
Authors: Leah Schatz, Q.C., Brent Matkowski
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… Read More
