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Colby Cosh: Did Ozempic kill its Canadian patent?
Generic versions of the weight loss drug are about to hit the market
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Ladies and gentlemen, the moment has arrived: generic versions of the miracle weight-loss drug semaglutide, best known under its corporate trade names of Ozempic and Wegovy, are now beginning to arrive on Canadian pharmacy shelves. This will, perhaps, provide fresh data on one of the great unresolved questions of our time: was Novo Nordisk’s unnecessary loss of its exclusive Canadian rights to the drug a mistake, or an intentional strategy?
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I call it a “great” question intentionally. Most every major event or development in human history can be seen either as an inevitable result of long-accumulating structural forces, or as a contingent and accidental thing that came about by happenstance. Usually there’s no right answer, because we’re limited in our ability to investigate counterfactuals. It is perfectly valid to see the carnage of the First World War as being a logical and necessary implication of, say, weaknesses in the post-Napoleonic settlement of European states that happened a century before. It is equally valid to suggest that if the Archduke Ferdinand’s driver had taken a different turn on June 28, 1914, the war might not have come........