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Sick of extra fees online? It's drip pricing, and Canadian shoppers are fighting back
VANCOUVER - If you shop online you're likely familiar with the experience - you agree to buy for a certain price, but by the time you check out, the cost has ballooned with fees and surcharges. Place ...
Apr 07, 2024
Liberals to create national drug agency as building block of pharmacare plan
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals' new budget promises a new agency to buy drugs in bulk and cut Canadian medication costs, the first step toward a national drug plan. In a sign of just how expensive phar...
Mar 19, 2019
Health Canada seizes infertility, breast cancer drugs sold online
RICHMOND, B.C. - Health Canada is warning that it seized a number of unauthorized health products from a business in Richmond, B.C. The agency says it has seized 10 products from EPCA Shipping Inc., w...
Mar 21, 2017
California withdraws immigrant health care request
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California officials on Wednesday withdrew their request to sell unsubsidized insurance policies to people who can’t prove they’re legally in the United States after l...
Jan 19, 2017
Jagmeet Singh vs. Galen Weston: The NDP's crusade to bring down 'corporate greed'
OTTAWA - Pushing a grocery cart up and down the aisles of Loblaws, Jagmeet Singh has to admit it's all a little bit awkward. After all, the NDP leader has lambasted the grocery giant and its former pr...
Feb 22, 2024
US influence on protest, Online Streaming Act concerns : In The News for Feb. 10
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 10 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Feb 10, 2022
Canada eyeing implications of U.S. plan to allow imports of prescription drugs
OTTAWA - Canada's health minister says the federal government is in touch with U.S. officials to discuss the Trump administration's plan to allow imports of cheaper prescription drugs from north of th...
Jul 31, 2019
Citizen panel calls on Ottawa to provide universal pharmacare plan for Canadians
TORONTO - A group of Canadians charged with examining access to prescription drugs across the country is recommending that the federal government adopt a national, publicly funded pharmacare plan in c...
Dec 06, 2016
Hudson's Bay steps outside Canada with its flagship brand in the Netherlands
TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. chief executive Jerry Storch says bringing the iconic department store brand to the Netherlands wasn’t his original plan, but feedback from local shoppers sugges...
Sep 04, 2017
Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in 15 years - all whi...
Feb 10, 2020