Claire Davidson was socializing with colleagues at the Digestive Disease Week conference when the group realized the table they were gathered around was covered with advertisements. Anywhere else, a table wrapped in brightly colored pharmaceutical branding might stick out, but this small table fit in amid the sea of advertising in its enormous home. McCormick…
Pharmaceutical Companies Help Pay for Doctors’ Continuing Education
June 13, 2023
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One Way Big Pharma Trains Doctors
June 13, 2023
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Claire Davidson was socializing with colleagues at the Digestive Disease Week conference when the group realized the table they were gathered around was covered with advertisements. Anywhere else, a table wrapped in brightly colored pharmaceutical branding might stick out, but this small table fit in amid the sea of advertising in its enormous home. McCormick…
Ethics Commissioner’s Office Can’t Initiate Investigations Due to Leadership Absence, Committee Hears
The federal Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner cannot currently initiate investigations or issue reports on possible ethics breaches by public servants because it has no acting commissioner, a House of Commons committee heard on May 12. Representatives from the office told the Commons Standing Committee on Ethics that a future commissioner could…
Trudeau Defends Appointment of Cabinet Minister’s Sister-in-Law as Interim Ethics Commissioner
March 31, 2023
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 31 defended the appointment of Martine Richard to the role of interim ethics commissioner, amid conflict-of-interest concerns over her being the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc. “If there is any office in the country that understands how to manage conflicts of interests and ethical perceptions and issues,…
Canada’s ‘Democratic Evolution’ Tested by Conflict of Interest Violations
Canada’s first prime minister resigned over a conflict of interest scandal in 1873. John A. Macdonald was accused of accepting election funds from a shipping magnate in exchange for the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was Canada’s first political scandal, long before the country had a conflict of interest watchdog. “The big…
US Needs Tougher Laws Against Federal Stock Traders
October 25, 2022
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Commentary The U.S. federal government has over 1.8 million civilian employees and over 1.3 million active duty military personnel. Many have access to confidential information that could be traded in the stock market to give an edge against taxpayer stock traders who pay their salaries. That’s just wrong. A major Wall Street Journal study, published…
PR Firm Working For Pfizer and Moderna Embeds Staff Within CDC’s Vaccine Committee
October 14, 2022
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A PR firm that represents big pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna has been revealed to staff certain divisions in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the pandemic, sparking questions regarding potential conflicts of interest. Based in New York, Weber Shandwick is reportedly the second-largest PR firm in the world with revenues…
Quebec Tory Leader Calls for Inquiry Into Pandemic Management by Private Firm
September 30, 2022
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Quebec Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime on Friday called for an inquiry into the province’s outsourcing of many facets of the pandemic’s management to U.S. consulting firm McKinsey, including any potential conflicts of interest issues. “Should we understand that the [François] Legault government gave a consulting firm the duty to manage Quebec in 2020, with…
30 Percent of Hong Kong Senior Officials Are CCP-Backed, Violating Conflict of Interest
The new Hong Kong government has expanded its infrastructure and added many new positions since the new chief executive of Hong Kong took office in July 2022. Among 14 Senior officials appointed by Chief Executive Of Hong Kong (CE) John Lee Ka-chiu, some are in charge of mainland affairs. Others possess multiple companies and properties…
‘Institutional Corruption’: Big Pharma Money Permeating Global Drug Regulators
July 8, 2022
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Though drug regulators were originally set up to regulate the drug industry, a new investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows that conflict of interest (COI) is pervasive within agencies globally. Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest funders of major regulatory agencies. The study found some national drug agencies are almost exclusively reliant on pharmaceutical…
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