The Tablet

Four years after the deadly wildfire swept through the British Columbian village of Lytton, its residents are trying to rebuild. While the community had reestablished a health clinic, staffed by rotating shifts of doctors, nurses and even a pharmacist, the village still lacked essentials such as…

If Canada is serious about patient safety, access, and accountability, it is time to ask a difficult but necessary question: Who should be responsible for the clinical oversight of medicinal cannabinoids? The answer, increasingly clear both domestically and internationally, is pharmacists.

Here we are, 2026! As we start the year, I want to thank all our members for your hard work in the last several months as our profession once again delivered an outstanding fall immunization campaign. 

There are big changes this year.…

For me, 2026 is a big year of transition. In November 2026 I will be leaving my position as CEO and moving on to new challenges. I am proud of all the things we have done during my tenure, but the year has just begun. There are many new frontiers…

For the Winter 2026 edition of The Tablet, we ask our contributors their thoughts on how artificial intelligence (AI) will change community pharmacy.

A 2022 University of British Columbia PharmD graduate, Jonah Khanna serves as Clinical Operations Pharmacist at Endor Health, a tech-first startup delivering virtual diabetes care across Canada. He discusses the digital health field and shares practical insights on emerging roles for pharmacists…

News doses from the Winter 2026 edition.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, and it’s coming to health-care practice near you. 

By incorporating HPV vaccination assessment and HPV self‑sampling referrals into contraception visits — supported by public funding, private supply, centralized registries and universal screening options — pharmacists can close one of the most urgent gaps in women’s health.

Every day, pharmacists across British Columbia support patients managing chronic disease, pain, stress, and medication changes. Increasingly, they are also supporting patients living with nicotine dependence, often at critical moments when motivation to quit is highest. QuitNow exists to support…