Rob Shaw: Premier’s cabinet refresh undone by a dying girl’s suffering

Dogged by a series of unpopular decisions, and facing grumbling from within his own party, Premier David Eby attempted a reset of sorts Thursday. Not with his cabinet shuffle, which was a tepid affair. But later in the evening, when his health minister backed down from months of mean-spirited stubbornness to restore drug coverage to a dying 10-year-old girl.

Josie Osborne phoned the family of Charleigh Pollock to say her medicine will be reinstated and “available to them for as long as the treating physician and the family deem it appropriate.”

The minister was apparently quite apologetic on the call. She should be. Her government put Charleigh and her

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