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In contrast to former health minister Leona Aglukkaq, [Rona Ambrose] promised to spend the entire day at the conference, attending education sessions and meeting with the CMA's executive committee, and also talk to delegates to get \"perspectives from the front line.\" \"Family violence is a health issue,\" Ambrose told the doctors. \"Last year a report from Justice Canada found spousal violence alone cost society at least $7.4 billion annually. Of that total, an estimated $6 billion accounts for health care costs for medical treatment and psychological services.\" Ambrose's speech did not include any funding announcements and steered clear of setting new policy directions. Instead, she peppered it with personal references to her own style - such as being a selfdescribed \"policy wonk\" who plans to dive into the critical issues, and her personal commitment to staying healthy, as evidenced by her recent vacation backpacking 70 km in the Rocky Mountains.

* British Columbia has Canada's healthiest population and, along with Ontario, ranks higher than most advanced countries in the Conference Board of Canada's first health report card that compares Canada and 15 peer countries. BC ranked third overall, after Switzerland and Sweden, across a variety of health indicators. Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada's three territories received the worst grades. * Nova Scotia patient advocates called for an end to ambulance fees. The province billed patients some $12.2 million for ambulance service in 2013/14. According to the Nova Scotia Citizens' Health Care Network, those fees deter people from calling an ambulance in emergencies, \"adding costs to the health system due to increased complications.\" - Lauren Vogel, CMAJ

\"We are committed with our G7 counterparts to find a cure by 2025,\" [Rona Ambrose] told delegates to the Canada-France Global Dementia Legacy Event. \"This will mean a lot of work, not only in the research community, but also with the provinces and territories to take the research and turn it into action on the ground.\" \"I'm very optimistic that we'll continue further down the road to see a more full-fledged plan, but this plan incorporates all the pieces that we need,\" said Ambrose. \"At the end of the day, it's what the provinces and territories agree to call it.\" \"We may need to build more long-term care facilities, or incorporate more care for Alzheimer's disease into those facilities, or potentially move resources around in home care - that's all for the provincial health ministers to discuss,\" said Ambrose. As for the federal role: \"We can work very well ... providing the information they need through research.\"

* Health researchers are upset about a \" secretive and disrespectful\" decision at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that would force scientists to \"knock on doors\" for external funding before they can access public money, reports CBC News. Speaking off the record, a member of one of the institute's advisory boards told CBC the reason for the change is to \"push scientists to commercialize,\" at the expense of long-term basic science. * The recently announced government funding for research into the mental health of military veterans is \"a very, very meagre amount of money,\" Dr. Ibolja Cemak, the chair in Military and Veterans' Clinical Rehabilitation at the University of Alberta, told The Globe and Mail. It will amount to about $1.1 million a year, an insufficient amount to conduct the basic science and clinical research needed to address a large and growing problem, according to Cemak. * H5 avian influenza has been confirmed on two poultry farms in British Columba. \"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has placed the two farms under quarantine to control disease spread and the industry sector has been notified to adopt enhanced biosecurity practices,\" announced the federal government.