Alberta doctors who commit sexual abuse to face tougher sanctions

Alberta doctors who commit sexual violations will be met with harsher disciplinary action in the future, including increased efforts to have serious offenders permanently banned from practising medicine, the province’s regulator says.
A new mandate to seek “stricter sanctions” was approved Friday by the council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, which said the move was necessary, in part, to reflect society’s hardening attitudes toward sexual misbehavio