There is a hidden continuing battle in the Canadian pharmaceutical industry. It pits Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (mostly international and trade-name companies) against the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA). The CGPA are companies that produce pharmaceuticals after the patent has expired. The battle also involves the Food and Drug Directorate, whose mandate is to supervise Continue Reading
By no stretch of the imagination can Canada be considered a power-house in tennis. If you overlook men`s doubles, and unfortunately the world does, Canada ranks very low. However, in the past, it is in women`s tennis that we have made a mark and produced world caliber players who, in their time, were in serious Continue Reading
As a pharmacist, now retired, who practiced my profession for 45 years, most of the time as president of a small chain of prescription pharmacies called Vanguard Drug Mart, I can unequivocally state that the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care under the leadership of George Smitherman, has completely caved in to the research-based Continue Reading
Timid politicians block meaningful changes in the delivery of Health Care. The major preoccupation for all politicians is to get elected and then re-elected. Everything politicians do is measured in terms of how it affects their chances in the coming elections. Governments, both provincial and federal are involved in many issues, such as soft-wood lumber, Continue Reading
I have often wondered why, when I meet a homeless person or beggar in the streets of Toronto, with his or her hand out for money, I give to some and by-pass others trying desperately to avoid eye- contact with the latter .If you do make eye-contact it is much more difficult to avoid helping, Continue Reading
Whenever Jews congregate in any numbers, occasionally the talk turns to anti-semitism and the plight of Jews throughout the world. Inevitably someone uses the phrase “Zi Svere tzu Zan a Yid” which translated into English means “it is tough to be a Jew”. As a seventy-four year old native-born Canadian living in a friendly, peaceful Continue Reading