Mark Goodfield has seen a lot interesting behaviour at the point where family dynamics and inheritances intersect over his 25 year accounting career that has often involved advice on wills and estate planning. Some of it is loving and kind, some of it . . . well, not so much. Goodfield started The Blunt […]
Archives for October 25, 2015
Imprimis drug compounder offers cheap version of Turing’s $750 pill
Stepping into the furor over eye-popping price spikes for old generic medicines, a maker of compounded drugs will begin selling $1 US doses of Daraprim, whose price recently was jacked up to $750 US per pill by Turing Pharmaceuticals. San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc., which mixes approved drug ingredients to fill individual patient prescriptions, said Thursday […]
Beware phony CRA income tax owing calls
Martin Zelikovitz received a call that shook him up. A man claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency said his tax return had been reviewed and he owed money. “He said that if I didn’t pay right away, he was coming to my house momentarily with armed police and was going to arrest […]
Seniors in private nursing homes may die within 6 months
Seniors living in private nursing homes are more likely to die within six months of their stay than those living in non-profit facilities, a group of researchers has found. A recent study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that for-profit seniors’ homes have a 16 per cent higher death rate for […]