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ICYMI: TRUTH from President Donald J. Trump
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Operation Voice Combats Human Trafficking In Fort Smith, Offers Hope To Victims
Twelve adults believed to be victims of human trafficking were offered services, and another 32 local victims were identified as part of Operation VOICE (Victims' Opportunity for Independence, Care, and Empowerment), which took place in Fort Smith during the month of January.
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Heroes and Zeroes: A Common Sense Look at Transparency
Americans crave transparency while lawmakers obviously overlook simple solutions. That’s especially true when it comes to public officials at the local level. Often the only way for citizens to know what is happening is to formerly request the record. Under the current Arkansas Freedom of Information Act public requests can often create chaos for all parties – the requester and the entity that keeps the records.
Richard Owens: Let's hope turmoil at drug price review board portends end of outdated agency
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board is fixated on price over value, and has little regard for issues of supply and investment Article content The federal agency that controls wholesale drug prices is facing fresh controversy over the public resignation of one of its board members and critical insider testimony before the House of Commons health committee over ministerial interference.
Opinion: Markets gave us COVID vaccines: The WHO would rather they hadn’t Original
An organization like the World Health Organization should support innovators; instead, it abets theft A nurse prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal, Que. Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES FILES Article content World Health Organization (WHO) consultations on pandemic preparedness reconvened last weekend based on an ambitious Statement. It’s written in the usual vague bureaucratic prose meant to disguise organizational failures while extracting funds.
Opinion | Why Canada Should Pay More for Medications Original
July 17, 2022 4:27 pm ET Toronto American lawmakers are threatening to impose price controls on prescription drugs, and it isn’t hard to see why. We Canadians, like others outside the U.S., get our medications at bargain prices—and at the expense of the American consumer, who pays full freight and then some. Americans are tired of free riders, and they deserve a break.
Richard C. Owens: The Emergencies Act wasn’t the only sledgehammer Original
Perhaps the issue was bias against the Freedom Convoy Article content Invocation of the Emergencies Act to end the truckers’ protest in Ottawa shocked civil libertarians here and around the world. A proposed class action started by Ottawa residents Zexi Li and Geoffrey Devaney and the Happy Goat Coffee Company may be just as disturbing. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Richard C. Owens: Court support for drug price controls will hurt health care
The new regulations are so confiscatory they will limit access to life-saving pharmaceuticals and stunt Canada's life sciences sector A pharmacist counts prescription drugs at the at the CentreTown Pharmacy in Ottawa. Photo by REUTERS/Chris Wattie files Article content Whether it’s moving beer across provincial boundaries, living free of a federal carbon tax or making their own pandemic choices, Canadians and their rights haven’t done very well in the courts lately.
Opinion: Time to decide: Do we want foreign R&D or not?
Intellectual property rights in Canada constantly lag behind other countries that are better at innovation Pedestrians cross the intersection at Bay Street and Wellington Street West in the financial district of Toronto. Photo by Galit Rodan/Bloomberg files Article content One measure of a nation’s governance and institutions is its attractiveness to foreign investment.
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