Pharma, tech giants complained of Canada’s drug pricing system, digital service tax to U.S. trade rep
The board that oversees medicine pricing in Canada and levies on big social media and online service platforms appear in submissions to the U.S. Trade Representatives review of ‘unfair’ foreign trading practices.
If you think that assisted dying in Canada is a mess, think again
In order to be eligible for MAiD, a person must have a grievous and irremediable medical condition causing enduring, intolerable, and unrelievable suffering.
Why retaliatory tariffs could cost lives and what we should do instead
For Canada’s life sciences sector, the stakes are even higher in the trade war with the U.S.—both livelihoods and lives are at risk.
Seizing the moment to grow Canada’s biomedical research enterprise as the U.S. falters
This opportunity to attract top health research talent to Canada will not last long.
Liberals to push ahead with pharmacare, but program’s fate under Conservatives is unclear
Health Minister Kamal Khera highlighted Yukon signing onto the pharmacare deal since Mark Carney became prime minister, saying the Liberal government ‘will continue to make sure we deliver for Canadians.’
Restrictions on living abroad: the inequality of Canada’s pension portability
The aspect of Canada’s pension system that supports poor seniors pushes some into even greater precarity.
The growing threat of forever chemicals
The transition to natural refrigerants offers a viable way forward, but there is an urgent need for legislative action and improved regulations to accelerate it. This would help reduce dangerous PFAS pollution, and reduce emissions at the same time, a win for both health and the environment.
Canada’s health-care system ‘in a tough spot,’ says Singh
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada needs to protect its health-care system. “The reality is our health care system is eroding in a serious way,” Singh told a crowd gathered on Feb. 24 at an Ottawa event for health-care workers, patients, and advocates billed as an effort to “defend and expand public health care and […]
No, becoming the 51st state wouldn’t give us better health care—but Trump knows he’s hitting a nerve
The hard workers who keep the health system running have never been more worried about the future of Canadian health care.
Expanding the Canada Health Act must include mental health and substance use health
Mental health and substance use health are the foundation of economic productivity as well the cornerstone of our health and well-being.
