Putting our money where mental health is

Nitu is helping pharmacists bring accessible healthcare to Albertans

In Lethbridge, Alta., there aren’t enough doctors to go around. Over the last two years, the city and surrounding region have lost 24 primary care physicians, leaving almost 46,000 people without a family doctor. That means even minor aches and pains require a trip to a doctor in a nearby city or town or, worst-case scenario, to the emergency room at Lethbridge’s Chinook Regional Hospital—and both options put pressure on the province’s already strapped healthcare system.

James helps reduce plastic waste

There’s a plastic-saving campaign going on behind the scenes at your local Shoppers Drug Mart^® pharmacy. Or, more accurately, at the central fill sites used by high-volume stores to fill prescriptions.

Nadine’s team is running for Martin

They called him Mr. Dior, Nadine Abou-Kheir recalls fondly. “Whenever we look over at the make-up counter, we remember Martin; the brushes were his brushes.” In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, Martin, an employee at Nadine’s store, tragically took his own life. Nadine, Associate-owner at a Calgary Shoppers Drug Mart^®, and her employees were understandably in shock.

Misty hits the ground running

Misty Kolbuck was looking for a change. So when the associate owner of the Shoppers Drug Mart^® in Selkirk, MB where she was working as a front cash supervisor asked if she was interested in a role as a pharmacy assistant, Misty leapt at the chance.