Weekend Newsstand: March 7, 2015

It's almost spring! Are we excited yet? In the news: a woman found a different name on her prescription drugs, a new sexual-violence policy in Ontario, and delays on subway construction are irking John Tory.

By Tannara Yelland • Illustration by Matthew Daley

Toronto woman Sarah Atwell says she peeled back the prescription labels on her bottles and found other people’s names on them. “When I investigated and pulled the labels off, I noticed they’re all used and I have other people’s names, doses, medications, and doctors,” she told CTV. For its part, Shoppers Drug Mart says it’s concerned about Atwell’s safety. “Our first priority is to ensure that any patient who may have had their personal health information compromised is notified as soon as possible,” a Shoppers rep told CTV.

Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a new path for the province to deal with sexual violence. The campaign will be called “It’s Never OK,” and will include a multifaceted approach to ending gender-based and sexual violence. The new road map will include, among other things, “training for front-line workers in the health care, justice and tourism industries who may be the first point of contact in assault or harassment complaints; increased funding for sexual assault crisis centres; confronting misogynist culture beginning in early education, with the new sexual education curriculum; free legal advice to sexual assault survivors; [and] changes to legislation to move more quickly with assault and harassment complaints.”

The CBC reports that John Tory is “furious” over unexpected costs to construction on Yonge-Spadina subway construction, and is bent on a “wholesale change in the way the city operates.” Tory said in a recent press conference that construction is over budget on the subway extension from Downsview Station to York, and that “there is likely a clue or two” in the fact that projects like city construction often go over-budget while projects like water drains don’t do the same.