Ep 191: COVID Pharma Politics
Pharmacist Sasha Maleki joins us to talk science and pharmaceutical politics during COVID-19. Plus the latest on Canada-China relations, long-term care, Andrew Weaver's meltdown and the return to the legislature.
PolitiCoast · Ian Bushfield, Scott de Lange Boom
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Show Notes
Pharmacist Sasha Maleki joins us to talk science and pharmaceutical politics during COVID-19. Plus the latest on Canada-China relations, long-term care, Andrew Weaver's meltdown and the return to the legislature.
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Links
Pharmacy politics with Sasha Maleki
- Watch Sasha Maleki on Viral Transmissions
- Kenney to use tests, medications from 'peer' countries, won't wait for Health Canada to play 'catch up'
- Alberta pauses trial testing hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment
- Dr Bonnie Henry reiterates call for decriminalization of drugs
- Why was Alberta's chief medical officer not consulted in decision to end public health order, NDP asks
Quick takes
- What the Meng Wanzhou ruling means, and how it could have gone the other way
- Trudeau says Ottawa undecided on whether to block Huawei from 5G networks
- Military teams raise concerns about conditions at Ontario care homes
- Summary of military report
- Armed Forces report
- Nora Loreto's tracking sheet of long term care deaths
- Freeland says all options open as Singh questions why federal pension fund owns care company facing COVID-19 lawsuits
- PM Trudeau commits to explore plan to allow 10 days of paid sick leave
- Former BC Green Party leader lashes out at former caucus on social media
- BC in longest state of emergency as legislature set to resume