No. 5 best place: Canada

Total population: 34.8 million Percentage of population aged 60+: 20.8% (30th highest) Life expectancy at 60: 25 years GDP per capita: $35,223 Other. Elderly residents in Canada can rely on universal healthcare and an old age pension system. However, the government recently said it planned to gradually move the age at which Canadians became eligible for its Old Age Security program up from 65 to 67.

Total population: 34.8 million Percentage of population aged 60+: 20.8% (30th highest) Life expectancy at 60: 25 years GDP per capita: $35,223 Other. Elderly residents in Canada can rely on universal healthcare and an old age pension system. However, the government recently said it planned to gradually move the age at which Canadians became eligible for its Old AgeA PotNetwork Exclusive

In late May, Khiron Life Sciences Corp. (TSX-V:KHRN), the Canadian medical cannabis company with core operations in Colombia appointed former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Chief of Pharmaceutical Investigations, Matt Murphy, as their Vice President, Compliance. A veteran law enforcement official with 25 years as a Career Special Agent with the DEA, Murphy’s career took him to the front lines of the opioid epidemic, where he saw it evolve first-hand almost from the beginning as he handled pharmaceutical diversion investigations. He retired from the agency as the Assistant Special Agent in charge of the DEA's Boston office.

As almost everyone in the country these days, Murphy knows the opioid epidemic’s human toll, having seen, in his own words, “friends of my children and children of my friends” fall