
Kenyon Wallace
Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
Toronto Star Business Reporter focusing on the intersection of private business and publicly funded healthcare | Comments my own | Retweets not endorsements
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5 days ago |
thespec.com | Kenyon Wallace
Shoppers Drug Mart billed almost $62 million to the provincial government for medication reviews over a 14-month period, data obtained by the Star shows, raising concerns the pharmacy chain is abusing the Ontario Drug Benefit program and providing little benefit to patients. The reviews, performed through the MedsCheck program, are provincially funded consultations between pharmacists and patients intended to make sure doses are being followed and patient concerns are being addressed.
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5 days ago |
wellandtribune.ca | Kenyon Wallace
Shoppers Drug Mart billed almost $62 million to the provincial government for medication reviews over a 14-month period, data obtained by the Star shows, raising concerns the pharmacy chain is abusing the Ontario Drug Benefit program and providing little benefit to patients. The reviews, performed through the MedsCheck program, are provincially funded consultations between pharmacists and patients intended to make sure doses are being followed and patient concerns are being addressed.
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1 month ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Estella Ren |Kenyon Wallace
A British Columbia-based billionaire mall owner is planning to “acquire” beleaguered retailer Hudson’s Bay, according to a series of posts on a Chinese social media platform. In seven videos posted over the last two weeks on RedNote, a Chinese social networking and e-commerce app, Weihong Liu, chairwoman of shopping centre owner Central Walk, expressed her intent to buy Hudson’s Bay, which filed for creditor protection on March 7. “We will buy dozens of the stores together.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Estella Ren |Kenyon Wallace
A British Columbia-based billionaire mall owner is planning to “acquire” beleaguered retailer Hudson’s Bay, according to a series of posts on a Chinese social media platform. In seven videos posted over the last two weeks on RedNote, a Chinese social networking and e-commerce app, Weihong Liu, chairwoman of shopping centre owner Central Walk, expressed her intent to buy Hudson’s Bay, which filed for creditor protection on March 7. “We will buy dozens of the stores together.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Estella Ren |Kenyon Wallace
The leases of Hudson’s Bay’s eight-floor flagship store in downtown Toronto and the beleaguered retailer’s more than 80 locations across Canada are up for grabs — but experts say finding other companies to take over the spaces will be challenging. While the liquidation of most of its stores is underway, Hudson’s Bay has kicked off a process to scout for parties interested in bidding for the leases of the company’s enormous retail footprint.
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It took me a year to get this data because Shoppers Drug Mart didn’t want it public. It reveals Ontario taxpayers footed a $61M bill for more than 1.2 million meds checks done by Shoppers over 14 months, via @TorontoStar: https://t.co/2iXcpOawYe