July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Health Canada wants ideas on how to stop risky prescribing of the drugs fuelling Canada’s fastest-growing addictions.
Health Canada looking for ways to make opioid prescribing safer
Mentally ill inmate isn’t a dangerous offender, judge finds
July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Marlene Carter, a 43-year-old inmate with severe mental illness who’s spent much of her five years behind bars tied to a plank, bed or chair in a solitary cell, is not a dangerous offender, a judge has ruled.
Some mentally ill inmates face solitary confinement by another name
July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Special designations for federal inmates with the most complex psychiatric needs often result in their being kept in what is, effectively, solitary confinement – just don’t call it that.
Tied down in solitary for years, is sick inmate a dangerous offender?
If crime is down, why are provincial jails crammed with legally innocent people?
July 23, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Crime is down – violent crime, especially. But provincial jails are overflowing with a growing number of people who are legally innocent and awaiting trial, a Canadian Civil Liberties Association report finds.
Should we stop freaking out about Ontario manufacturing jobs?
July 16, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Perhaps you’ve heard: The number of Ontarians working in manufacturing jobs reached a 38-year low in Statistics Canada’s most recent jobs numbers.
Hooked on oxy: How pilfered Canadian pills are fuelling a U.S. health crisis
July 14, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Nineteen thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven tablets.
That’s how many pills an Ontario pharmacy employee was able to steal before being caught in February – by far the biggest oxycodone theft reported from a Canadian hospital or pharmacy since January 2012, according to numbers Health Canada gave Global News.
Ontario has no plans to crack down on skyrocketing painkillers
July 14, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canada’s next painkiller crackdown won’t come from Ontario.
Its removal of OxyNEO from the Ontario Drug Benefit successfully sidelined Purdue’s replacement for what was once the most notoriously addictive opioid – OxyContin.
And the province now collects data on all prescriptions filled, not just those the government pays for.
But tackling Canada’s fastest-growing addiction is turning into a game of whack-a-mole: Prescriptions for just about every other potent painkiller are up – way up – in the past two years.
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway: Now things get interesting
June 17, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal government’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelineis somewhat anticlimactic: It’s been expected since a Joint Review Panel gave the project a green light (with 209 conditions) late last year.
But now the gloves come off: A quintet of lawsuits seeking to overturn that review panel decision, put on hold in light of Ottawa’s pending decision, is poised to recommence, likely amid more litigation taking issue with the decision itself.
Northern Gateway: Could the feds be any less pumped about this pipeline?
June 17, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Conservatives gave the green light Tuesday to one of the biggest energy projects out there – a $6.5-billion pipeline promising to open Alberta’s oilsands to the Asian market at the rate of more than half a million barrels a day.
But they seemed awfully sheepish about it.
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